AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11655, 10 June 1912, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

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(Per Press Association.) HIS OWN BURGLAR. Perth, Juno 8. Morrish Ims confessed that he stole the money and shot 'himself to bolster up the burglary story. HIGHER PAY IN RAILWAYS. Received June 10, at 10.5 a.m. Sydney, Juno 10. The. Railway Permanent Way Department has grantedvaai' all-round .increase of a shilling dailv in "wages from April. .-■.-.

A HALT IN IMMIGRATION. Sydney, June 10. The State Government has cabled the-Agent-General to go slow at present in the. matter .of im migration. It is stated that farm /hands a.nd artisans ara readily placed, but too many of tlie arrivals are unskilled. The drought, too, is affecting the demand in the country. Incidentally, shippers desire • to raise.the assisted fares from £l2 to EMPIRE EXHIBITION. Melbourne, June 10. South- Australia, Westral ia, Tasmania- and Queensland; have intimatedthat they arc not prepared, to co-oper-' ato in an Empire Exhiibtion. MAN WHO FOUND THE LYELL' MINE. :',;,.' „ r ;•! . : '' Hobart, JunelO. Mr \V. M'Donough, the actual d'isC i o, T er -c? f tho Mount Lyell Mine, is. was inTeceipt of a-pension : trom the Government and the company conjointly. A MODEST IDEAL.Received June 10, -at 9.10 a.m.. - ; rr, - T , , Sidney, June. 10. , J.n.e Jjabor resolution of a■•- six-hours': day and.five days a week was-described' by Mr Fislmi- as a modest ideal. Asked if he agreed with the idea, he replied: "An eminent man once said, 'Hitch yoxtt' waggon to a star.' I believe in trying to reduce the drudgery of life." ;HAYMARKET RIOT.; • -.-'■ Sydney, June 10, Henry Morris, aged 19, who fractured his;skull in.the Hayinarket:riot,:is;dead. MARITIME STRIKE PREDICTED. Sydney, June 10. The Wharf Laborers' Union's delegate atithe Trades'TJnion Congress "predicted a maritime siyke within year. BREAKING OF THE DROUGHT. 'Sydney, Juric'lo. I Useful rains have fallen-over a large portion .df the State, the- Riverina and AVesterh districts benefithig._ ; ! ' -Brisbane,/June V .IO. ' 'The danger from "drought "lias beeri banished for the present by bountiful rains in the central districts and on the Downs and Western Queensland. Adelaide,: June 10. Splendid rains have fallen in the northern districts. EXPLOSION IN FOOD WORKS. Sydney, Juno-10. B'v an exnlosion in the Australian Pure Food Co.'s works at Redfern the .boiling-down roorii was wrecked and several employees were injured, one seriously- ....--