AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1715, 5 January 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

- - ■- By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association

SYDNEY, Jan. 4. A mass-meeting of brewery worker strikers resolved to resume work on Monday, -with the .exception of the en-gine-drivers’ and {coopers, .who are dotfciminod to press’their claims. The Seamen’s Union decided that if the ship-owners attempt to replace the striking engineers with outside engir ncers, they will, support tljo engineers. The six-days’ cycling ilicii was won by Spencer and Osterittcr (America), with Grender and . Carry (Amej-icii) second, and Wells (Now Zealand) .ami Stevens (Victoria) third. Only seven teams finished. They covered* 910 miles. Matthews" the aviator, cables from Constantinople on December 31 : ‘T am leaving for Bagdad on January 2. I was .unable to communicate from -the late enemy country, but' hope to keep in touch', henceforth. ‘Plena?) convey liiy congratulations to Ross Smith on his splendid achievement.” Though ■ the -New South Wales i-eyemir. for half a year increased- by over, £1,714,000, the expenditure exceeded the revenue by £200,000. ' Nearly £500,000 was spent in connection with the influenza epidemic. MELBOURNE, Jnn. 4. The Federal Government offers a {reward of £IO,OOO for tho discovery of petroleum in payable quantities in Australia’. ;l - FREMANTLE, Jnn. 4. The A.I.F. cricket team has arrived. The members are well and satisfied with the result of their tours in England and Africa. , •. -* ~ t-i*