AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18080, 3 May 1922, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CANBERRA STRIKE SETTLED. REFERENCE TO TRIBUNAL. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 10.50 p.m.) MELBOURNE. May 2. The strikers at Canberra accepted terms offered by the Prime Minister, Mr. W. M.' Hughes, and returned to -work. Mr. Hughes agreed to the request of a deputation that, the strikers at Canberra return to work on the conditions ruling prior, to Easter, the questions of rates and hours to be referred to a tribunal for \ decision, which would be accepted by either party. • SYDNEY ELECTRIC SUPPLY. INQUIRY INTO HIGH COST. (Reed. 7.16 p.m.) SYDNEY. May 2 The committee of the City Council investigating the causes of the high cost of Sydney's electric supply stfctes that to produce current valued at £356,000 in Melbourne cost £24,000..whi1e the production of £943.000 worth of current in Sydney cost £147,000. On the Melbourne basis it should cost only about half. ► COALMINERS CONSIDER TERMS. SYDNEY. May 2. The cpalminers in a number of northern lodges have considered the owners' terms, but the result has not been announced. LABOUR PASTY SPLIT. SYDNEY. May 2. The Federal Labour Party's executive has endorsed the action of the New South Wales' executive in expelling Mr. J.' H. Catts, leader of the Majority Labour Party. The executive", states that anything amiss in the movement should be remedied from within. LAND SETTLEMENT SCHEME. SYDNEY. Hay 2. Tho Commonwealth has signified; ite approval of the State Government's land scheme for the settlement of the Murray Valley, the Northern Tablelands, Burrinjuck, and the North Coast. NEW STATES ADVOCATED. , • SYDNEY. May 2. ; The advocates for dividing New South • Wales into new States are conducting a three days' campaign in the heart of the city. They point to decentralisation in • New Zealand as an example to Ik : imitated. ''*''£.',_ > HEROISM RECOGNISED. : • SYDNEY. May 2 >• The committee administering the Chalmers Testimonial Fund has allocate*! • £250 for a motor-truck for Chalmers, the • hero of the recent shark tragedy at Coogee " and has also invested : £1250 for his f family. On. the suggestion of Chalmers ; 1 £500 was* awarded to F. S. Beaurepaire for assisting in tine rescue. SENATOR KILLED BY TRAIN. - BRISBANE, May £ Mr. John Adamson, a member of tb Senate, was cut to pieces by a train a He'ridra He had been in bad health fo a considerable time and it is stated Lha " he threw himself in front of the train. . PRICE OS" BUTTER RAISED. . (Reed. 10.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, May '. I The wholesale price of butter has bee: i increased by 9s, making it 187s per cw*.