AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8958, 6 December 1905, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

i'.r Electhic Telegraph.—Copyright.]

<Vt.r Press Association.) I'ec.-ived December 6. at 1.16 a.m. Sydney, December 5. Sailed—Whakniano, for Auckland. Xewcastle, December 5. Arrived—Pnkanoa, from Auckland. I'.'M-eived December 6. at 0.17 a.m. Sydney, December 5.

Cohen and his son were found guilty of conspiring to defraud their creditors. •Tli'r daughter was acquitted. The father was sentenced to four years' and the son io nine months' imprisonment. The Arbitration Court rejected the claims of the Coal Lumpers' Union for increased pay.

["he T'oynl Commission appointed to inquire into the railway coal contracts will also report on the relations existing between the Chief Commissioner and his fellow Commissioners, and their effect on the administration of the. department.