AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph-Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. SYDNEY, J>eo. 50. A third attempt to elect a Lord Mayor resulted in a deadlock, the voting bemg thirteen each. It is expected that Cabinet will meet and make an appointment. Owing to the shipping strike, 'there is a great shortage of potatoes. Prices have advances! to £,28 per ton. t The racehorse Rebus has died. It had won nearly £12,000 in stakes. . , MELBOURNE, Dtc. 30. The now log of the Merchant, Service Guild demands an increase- from fortyseven to seventy-three per cent, on existing rates.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1712, 31 December 1919, Page 5
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