AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10764, 11 May 1911, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) FINED FOR STREET SPEAKING. Received May 11, at 8.30 p.m. Sydney, May 10. Another State politician was fined £3 on a charge of obstructing traffic by addressing a meeting in the street during the referenda campaign. WOMEN AND CHILD WORKERS. Sydney. May 10. The Government will appoint a Royal Commission to enquire into the question or' the alleg.-d shortage of labor and also the conditions under which women and children work. SFDDEN DEATH OF COMEDIAN. Sydney. May 10. Mr Grattan C'oughhm. the comedian, was found dead in lied. He performed at the theatre yesternight. EMPIRE DAY. Received May 11, at 0.45 a.m. Sydney, May 10. No special provision has been made bv the Government for observing Empire Day in view of King George's coronation celebrations. SENSIBLE VIEW OF THE WAGE QUESTION. Sydney, May 10. In delivering judgment iu the Industrial Court Judge Heydon declared that rents and prices had continued to increase during the past three years and the cost of living regulated the-living Win'? below which wages must not fall j and above which skilled labor rose. . UNION OF THE CHURCHES. Received May 11, at 9.50 a.m. Melbourne, May 11. A Committee which was appointed by the Congregationalists'to' 'irieet the Presbyterians and Methodists- : to■. eoiir, sider the union of the churches reported that a scheme had been drawn up anel sent to the denominations for discussion. < - A. TIRELESS CYCLIST. - Received May 11, at 10.20 airii-..- " ' Sydney, May 11. F. White, a West'ralian, cycled from Perth to Sydney, a distance of 307/ •miles, in 36. days 13 hours 3 minutes, lowering Birtles' record by 1 hour oi minutes. The country, he says, is .tough. !» "OUR MISS GIBBS." Sydney, May 11. ~ "Our Miss Gibbs" has concluded at ;thc Theatre Royal after a run of 230 an Australian record. :No fewer than 359,720 paid for admission. \ PEACE OF THE WORLD. Melbourne, May 11. i The Congregational Union carried a expressing gratitude to God_for; Sth'e courageous declarations of Mr.-J.JUt iSaml Sir E. Grey in favor of arbitration". f NIGHT FLITTING. ; . Melbourne, May 11. A man was fined Is for removing his own furniture after 7.30 in the evening uri'- contravention of the Factories Act, "whidh states that nothing be .'catted after, that time. ' STRIKERS' WORN DOWN. Sydney, May 11. The harvester strikers decided by [709 to 214 to' return to work. The proiprietors will engage as many as possible. I 1 ■ ■ A PREACHING TOUR. I . ' ■ Sydney, May 11. I The Rev. R. J. Campbell will start i'a preaching tour in the autumn through [the United States and Canada. He will !afterwards tour, in Australia.