AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10242, 3 September 1909, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

[Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Tress Association.) LABOR TROUBLES. Sydney, September 2. The 500 ineu employed in the cement works and coal mines at Portland have struck for an increase of wages. THE M'MYLER HOIST. Sydney, Sepetmber 2. The M'Myler hoist at Newcastle, a patent apparatus for the expeditious handling of coal, which has been the subject of a commission of inquiry, collapsed through the breaking of a screw, and crashed to the earth with a great noise.