AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 15 December 1921, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, This Day. Tiie shipping companies find that coal can be lauded in Australia from Great ; Britain cheaper than Newcastle coal. : It- is also more profitable for tho steamers to carry coal cargoes than ballast. Two large coal cargoes have already been landed and others,' are e'n route. The Northern colliery owners rejected (he miners’ claims reducing the working fortnight to nine days, adding that if’the emploveefe' claims wore granted if would ho - ' Hie most serious attack on the management and control of industry, . yet attempted. Air Justice Fring’s report on the Wheat Commission states that lie believes Talbot paid moneys for illicit purposes, and that. Georgeson knew what was being done and was equally culpable. He deliberately refrained from giving any information and sheltered himself under an alleged loss of memory. Air Justice Prihg 'is unable to suggest that Graharnc’s story ys .untrue, "having no means of checking it. H> became minister in 1915 and was worth then £BOOO. 'ln 1919 ho was worth £16,764. No doubt the statement was true that ho won big sums at belting, but the .spectacle of a minister frequenting racecourses and gambling in large sums was not edifyinrr. The coroner nt Moreo returned fi verdict Unit Mayor Hogan was maliciously murdered by Curran, w-io was committed for trial. The wourt stood in .silence, as a. mark of respect tor Jw '.Me mayor Tho Council adopted a -esohilir.u of sympathy with the family. MELBOURNE, Thw Day. Notwithstanding tho refusal ot the Slate Governments to share Hi tho fruit pool Air Hughes is proceeding with tho formation of the pool. Ilenvv Scarborough and All red Clark.’, 1 ' directors of the I'adak Cornua,, v, charged with conspiring with Orton to defraud, were reni.indec. tin 20th January, bail of LoOO being allowed. Counsel for the Crown stated Dial tlm amount .of tho losses in Bendigo alone was between UU.UUU and £(O,OM. xiiis Day. John Keith Clinch was appointed a Rhodes scholar. Ho U /jm second from tho same family, Ins odmi Allen having been selected in CRB.. SYDNEY, This Day.

Tlm Government having failed in its efforts to secure a. candidate lor Hie much-hawked Speakership of the Assoniblv, women took a hand in tiie- gutter A deputation of 18 waited on Doctor Arthur, Nationalist, and a. .supporter of motherhood endowment, and asked him to scarified liimsoif to secure the passing of the Endowment Bill and incidentally thereby save the Government from defeat. Dr Arthur declined the martyrdom, not only because ho considered the prospects of Hie Bill were rot bright, bufliocau.se limy wore asking him to sink Ids principles and consi„n himself to political contempt and oblivion to save the Government, which was the most reckless, irresponsible, and dangerous there had ever been in New South- Wales.