AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9375, 26 December 1912, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(BS ELECTIUO TELEQRArH—Copibioui.) U J EB FSICSS ASPOCIATUHI.) MELBOURNE, Deo. 25. Tho Hon. Mr Eraser. Postmaster-General, sails for Now Zealand on a short visit, partly for pleasure and partly for business, 110 will a nuiiibiT of questions with the Dominion Postmaster, including rrtcs charged by the Atlantic Cable Companies for messages reaching- Australia via tho Pacific, (.hi; establishment and equipment of Pacific wireless station;, and automatic telephones. Retailing the latter ho hopes to gain information of New Zealand experiments which will assist him in earrj--11;e out fe!ep!:ouo reforms. During tiio year flic Broken Hill mines paid over a million and a-half in dividends. •An oflicial of the State Savings Bank of Victoria counted £250, consisting of one hundred pound notes, and five ten pound notes, and then turned round. A hand immediately stretched over I lie counter, seized the notes, and vanished. The int'dont occurred at the busiest period of the" day, when tho bank was crowded. It is not known whether the perpetrator of Hie theft left the bank or mixed with the throng. ■ HOB ART; Dec. 25 . Tho balance of the bodies havo been recovered from tho North Lycll mino. Extensive repairs are proceeding. SYDNKY, Dec. 25. During Iho great coal strike three yearn ago the Colliery Employees' Federal ion leased two mines, intending thereby to assist the strike funds. Tho Railway Commisoioner, however, commandeered tho coal, Tho owners of tho mine declined to pay the wages of 300 miners, and financial complications followed. The Government have decided to end tho prolractcd negotiations bv paving 1,110 men's claims, totalling £12,000. '