AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17110, 15 March 1919, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PRICE-FIXING REGULATION. NUMBER OF COMMODITIES FREED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 10.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE. Mar. 14. A proclamation repeals the price-fixing regulation in regard to a number of commodities, including bread, infants' food, condensed milk, and tobacco. REPUDIATION OF THE I.W.W. LABOUR PARTY MANIFESTO. ADELAIDE, Mar. 14. The Labour Party, in a long manifesto, vigorously denounces the 1.W.W., stating that its methods are wholly at variance with Labour principles, and their declared methods are contrary to the methods endorsed by the Labour Party. Therefore tie party unhesitatingly repudiates I.W.W. and all similar propaganda, which strike at the fundamental principles of Labour.

EDITORIAL APPOINTMENT. (Reod. 10.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, Mar. 14. Mr. C. Brunsdon Fletcher, associate editor of the Sydney Morning, Herald, has been appointed editor. QUASHING OF A CONVICTION. (Reed. 1010 p.m.) SYDNEY, Mar. 14. The conviction of Judd, one of the leaders of the Extreme Labour Party, with a fine of £50, on a charge of making a speech prejudicial to recruiting, baa been quashed by the Full Court, on the ground that the indictment was bad. CLOSING DOWN OP MINIS. SYDNEY. Mar. 14. Twelve hundred men are unemployed at Cobar through the closing of the copper mines. The Mount Elliot mines are closing at the end of the month, the reason stated being that it is the result of petty strikes, Bolshevik tendencies, and of the employees reducing the output. NEW PARTY IN POLITICS. SYDNEY. Mar. 14. Captain Carmichael has announced that he will form a new party, with the object of scrapping the old political machinery and restoring the truo spirit of democracy. WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES. MELBOURNE, Mar. 14. The Federal Government is launching a new war savings certificate campaign. The currency will be raised to five years, and interest to 5 per cent. NINE HOTELS CLOSED. ADELAIDE. Mar. 14. ' The military authorities have closed nine hotels for supplying liquor to invalid soldiers.