INTERCOLONIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2923, 23 March 1910, Page 25

INTERCOLONIAL.

. MELBOURNE, March 15. The Railway Commissioners, hv using Powlett River coal, will save £30.000 oer annum, while £35,000 in coal frfyehts will be earned this year. It is estimated that the railways will earn £75,000 by this means next year. March 16. The High Court refused the appeal by the proprietors of the Age for a new trial in the Swinburne v. Age libel case, in which the plaintiff was awarded £3250 as damages.

March 19. The Australian Natives' Association Conference resolved that the financial agreement between the States and the Commonwealth was detrimental to the best interests of the Commonwealth; ■• ■. SYDNEY, 1 ". March . 17. The. Rifle Association will offer £5300 !in prize-money for its next meeting, whereof £IOOO, besides trophies, will be set aside for the King's Prize. The Roman Catholic laity have presented Cardinal Moran with £2500 in ■ recognition of his services and to mark I his silver jubilee in Australia. March 18. The Newcastle Wharf Labourers' and . Coal Trimmers' Unions have completed the formation of a co-operative., company to do the stevedoring work at the port, i It is stated that several big shipping comI panics are standing behind the unions. ■•: March 21. '■ In connection with the recent derailment of .a train at Mount Victoria, some ", boys have 'confessed that they placed stones on the metals. The inter-State steamship companies have returned to the normal pre-strike freight rates from to-day. PERTH. March 16. | Silver Home's foundry, at Kalgoorlie,. ' was destroyed by fire. The damage is ; estimated at £IO,OOO. N March 18. There aTe disastrous bush fires ruining the Blackwood district, and. extending for 60 miles along the coast. • - BRISBANE, March 18. Warnings of a severe tropical disturbance along the Queensland coast' have been ! issued. ; A gale is now blowing at Townsville, : and nearly 7in of rain Lave fallen at I Mackay.