UNDER AUSTRAL SKIES.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1349, 22 June 1911, Page 3

UNDER AUSTRAL SKIES.

THE SHEFFIELD (IBQIR, EaTiiBSIaSSf lb* SYDNEY. (Press Association—By Telegraph.--Copyright). Sydney, Yesterday. Tire idea that Admiralty House TOuld bo suitable far the GovernorGemeral % not supported in official! quarters. It is considered altogether too smalt for a vice-regal residence. The Minister of Labor expresses hi'mdlif as greatly impressed with tiia change of feeling in Newcastle district. lie says tiro miners are bsganing to understand 1 the futility of tho last groat strike. The. League of Wheelmen is arranging a six .days' bicycle .race early in Janwy with prizes totaling £ISOO. It ce h'opsd to attract the world's champions. The official organiser of .the Br.it.isli Immigration League, after visiting al'l tho States, reports that as a result of his enquiries he k convinced thoro should' 'not be a. single- capalfa willing worker in the British Islands looking for work. At tho close of the Sheffield Choir's Coronation concert, Dr Ha-iTOj paid a grateful tribute to the eiinthuskiS'm audi kindness of the Sydney people, and said they would .return to England to spread abroad the charm of Sydney mid all Australia. In order to show their gratitude to tire Government and people of New South Wales they intended to givo an openair concert to-day. The Warriirao was delayed by 'IK-avy weather. No damage was done to tho stock, which was fended safeNewcastle, Yesterday. Sailed: Kaitangata, for Lyttclton. The sugar workers' strike threatens to spread. Large strikers camps alio foraiiod in the Mackay and Townsvilfo district.?. Both sides arc firm, Tho growers threaten to imporrlabor.' l;t reply to an enquiry the Minister of Ci'/stiurs has .received ai letter from the secretary of the Amalgamated Butchers' workmen iu North Anv?:i::., wherein he says that the Meat Trust has been reaching out to I other countries, and hie had noticed an article in the American Meat Trade Journal stating that the Trust ha:!: f-eured contral of largo landed intcre-b in Australia and intended shortly to devciop them. He utters -a warning to be ready to protect the workers against opposition which te bound to enree if the trust secures a