DOMINION NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14702, 1 June 1920, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

; (Per Press Association.) - WELLINGTON, June 1. . , The Treasury announces- that the ■ following information .has btkn received. Irom the High Commissioner, dated London, 27tli: —'l"lie official price of gold.- to-day is -£5 6s 6d per ounce for shipments to India and South' Africa." What is "jeiieved to be a record price for, any Tand sold in the city, lias just been paid by the Union Bank of AustVaiia, namely, £503 a foot. The land has a 43ft frontage to Lambton quay, with a depth of about 50ft. ltegOiruing the motor fatality last night, "it appears that Combs and Tilly were crossing -Jervois quay in the neighborhood of the FiYq, Brigade Station, and had just emerged from the rear of one •nintor lorry when they came straight m front of a second motor lorry, travelling at a speed of about, eight miles an hour. The driver the breaks, but too late to a vert an accident. Combs was 42 years of age, and was in town on a business'visit. .Tilly's condition last night became serious, but ha was reported this morning to be a littlobetter. A Seamen!,s Union stop-work meeting to-day passed a motion requesting the - Government to. raise its policy of vindictiveness by .immediately releasing a.ll conscientious objectors and , other military offenders, and that tlie defaulters' -list. and the lpw under which it as made, including the War Regulations, be at once repealed. CHR.ISTCHURCH; May 31. Eight houses at least will be erected by the City Council out of the Government grant of £IO,OOO, which, although ho< in hand, is regarded as assured. The vote will not be expended entirely on land "or buildings, but will be spread over both, so 'that the work may be gone on with at once. CHRISTCHUCH, June 1. The Magistrate (Mr M'Cafthy), in a reserved judgment, lield that the premises or place where a conditional licensee is .authorised to sell liquor at an occasional gathering are licensed premises within the meaning of the Licensing Act. The case arose out of a prohibited person being found in a. licensed booth at the Addington trot'ting ground, and the police asked the Magistrate for a decision. DUNEDIjST, .Tune 1, Speaking generally on applications for increased wages and bonuses before the Arbitration Court to-day, €\fr Cookson, the employers' representative, said that since the Court's last pronounce-* ment some industries bad had to close down, and others had reached breaking point. If this caused' unemployment it might have a serious effect. The i President said that no doubt the position was difficult. The irony of the situation seemed to bo that the workers were assisting greatly in the increased cost of" living against themselves. One remedy of all economists was more production.' The workers were insisting upon higher wages and shorter hours, and production was less. He did not know where, all this was going to land them. HAWERA, June 1. Seven natives were travelling in a motor car .from Opunake to Ohakeho yesterday, r and when opposite the pa at Oeo the car for some unexplained reason capsized, but landed agilin on its wheels. A native named Waka. was killed, and two others, a man and a woman, were injured and had to be sent to hospital.