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BIG LAW-CASE SETTLER, CLAIM FOE £(150,000.. ' • By- Telog£&ptt.--P«>S3 AKociation.—Copyxilttt ?■ - ] ■' ■■ (Received Mawh,: 51, ;8- p.m.) ( '< '— . , ' Svdnbt, March 31. " Thb claim of , Messrs.' "Hoskinß. Ltd.;, of '} the Lithgcw .ironworks, against 'the - New , ['■ South- Wales Government, for the sum of , .£150,000,, as compensation for the'-.cancel* '> lotion of steel rails and iron contracts, h<" .i ;.:. been settled-, on ■■' the- following ; turns so ; ;..>. '* plaintiffs admit that -: tie ;:..-.circui^tan^"|'..}; ' were such as. appeared _ '.to justify the ( Minister for Public Works cancelling,'.{he ;. contract; they will not bo debarred' '--;in.. Future from receiving Department c«fi- , tracts the deposit of , £5000 to he m , ' funded each party to pay its costs. THE OQMS*' STRIKE.' : - '" -Sydnot/ March 31. A Citizens' Conciliation.. Ckmaaiitee h33 been formed .at; Bulli with a view to , mediating between/;; the masters and miners, in the hope of settling the coal ~-■ ; sfafuko. ', , ' , IDAX psom THE SEA, _ : ' Sydney, March-'3l. . Tne captain of the steamer Malaria lias I brought a bottle, containing pencilled '' V i noto : "We are lost. ' There is no bone.— > G.W.E-, s»b. Waratah," which was found at 5 > Tanna Island, in the New Hebrides.' "She . > opinion, of shipping people is,, that .the s "message" is a hoax. • - ' , -.passing; 'air' iitk a , £aci&?roOßT. ' ■ i- - SYnifer; Match'3l. j As. a result: of the; conceteions-:granted ' the ferrymen, who were lately'on strike, v ■ the Biilmain Ferry, Company baa : r&isied fares and periodical tickets.by 25. per ccut. ■■'•'■'' "' -'"■'■ -, -. ■-; " '—it' "• f ; '■"»;>; v.-'-'*.-.;'-'--• .--•/. NEW ANTAiaCTIC TSESirOSIf. ' ~ '■-.'.■;., / Melbourne, March 31. ■■ Lord penman (Governor-General) y has ■•■ sent a wireless message to Dr.. Mawsira,. K itatirig that the King^ha^^graciously >ap- ' * proved j of the title King' George V. Land ; for; the j hewly-_diiKove3eed territory between » Victoria Land and Adeli^Lany^ ; iV :•-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15265, 1 April 1913, Page 7
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275AUSTRALIAN NEWS. New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15265, 1 April 1913, Page 7
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