AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, 23 May 1921, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MORWELL POWER SCHEME.

AMERICAN TENDER ACCEPTED Australian and N-Z. Cable Association. MELBOURNE, May 21. The Victorian Government has accepted an American tender of £379,000 for" the Morwell power scheme. There was no Australian tender, and the only British tender was for a portion of the work only. ' ' NEW COAL SEAM FOUND. SYDNEY. (May 21.. Mr. George Cann, New South Wales Minister for Mines, announces the discovery of a workable coal seam on the southern railway line, about 60 miles from Sydney. The. coal has been identified as the No. 1* Bulli seam. It contains 8 per cent. ash. . ALTERNATIVE TO STATES. SYDNEY, May 21. Dr. Earl Page, leader of the Country Party in the Federal House of Representatives, addressing the Riverina delegates at Albary, advocated the division of Australia into Provincial Councils.' The existing boundaries, h e said, were made in Downing Street, which was not conversant with local geographical conditions. CARGO PILLAGEKS' TOLL. SYDNEY, May 21. Giving evidence at the inquiry into cargo pillaging, Mi". G. Hudson, actingcollector of customs, estimated the losses at Sydney during the past four years at £16,000 annually.