AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9451, 25 February 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(B? Electric Telegraph--Copyright j (Peb Pbesb absooiation.) :•■.. Received February 25, 8.5 a.m. Feb. 25. The ischooner Australia 'is a total wreck. Sho has canted seawards and heavy seas aro breaking over her. . The slackness in the Newcastle coal trade is demonstrated by the fact that only 50,107 tons were exported. When trade is good" the weekly avorago is 120,000 tons. The Lithgow engine-drivers and firemen have rejected the master's' terms for settlement. Collectors are waiting on business people for subscriptions on behalf of the strikers' families, Government intends to establish a Conservatorium of Music in Melbourne. ~ Tho-Minister for Defence is showing a practical interest in the use of aeroplanes for defence purposes. Officers now in England have been commissioned to collect all available information relating to aviation. MELBOURNE, Feb. 25. The men employed at tho Moree-Mun-gindi railway, the Government's first big day labour job, are demanding increased pay, and threaten to strike if their request is rofused. Mr Griffith has written to the Melbourne Harbour Trust, thanking it for accepting tho Fitzroy docks tender for a dredge, stating that such a spirit will destroy tho' miserable local animosities which have disfigured ■ Australian public life. ■ The ..Marine Court has suspended for six months the certificate of tho captain of the Spoculant, recently wrecked off tho Australian coast. Received February 25, 10.20 a.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 25. Twenty-five Labour, members have replied to' the Labour League expressing their willingness to speak in favour of .the' affirmative vote on the referenda. None have yet refused. The secretary stated, in an interview, that; the failure of members to -usei the,<best' efforts, .might mean failure to the mqvoment or to themselves. i "''

The Gas Company's Outdoor Workers Union express confidence in secretary Kerr, whoso dismissal brought about the strike recently. . . In order to relieve unemployment at Newcastle the Government is opening a registry office, where an officer will arrange for the despatch of men to other parts of the- country. Prince Leopold has almost recovered. ADELAIDE, Feb.' 25.

The fruitgrowers' labourers... are on strike. The growers decided to do their own harvesting. The butchers now refuse to supply them with meat. One baker, who was supplying bread, has been blacklisted by the Union, The men declined the services of, the ; Federal'; Arbitration Court as too expensive, also the State, because it gave no finality as the masters always fight its jurisdiction.