AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13171, 3 September 1913, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

: (Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.) SYDNEY, September 2. A Bill will be introduced during the present" session . .authorising a loan of three millions for railway construction, irrespective of the agreement with Messrs Norton and Griffiths. (Received Sept. 3, 9.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 3. Mr Johnson, Chief Railway Commissioner, was fined £5 and £10 10s costs by the Industrial. Arbitration Court on the charge laid oh August ., 14. — [The Commissioner, to enable the work, to proceed, agreed to the reinstatement of casual hands -pending the hearing of a test case by the Industrial Arbitration Court.] ' ...>..,

-.. •' MELBOURNE, Sept. 2. - The censure. d«bate has been resumed La," the House, and is expected to extend for greater pa>t of the week-

. The White Star liner Ceramic, 18,500 tons, the largest -vessel that • has ever visited Australia,, has arrived. T'he steamer covered the journey from Adelaide jn 33 hours, , "-; The Harbor Trust propose to- spend over £1,000,000 m deepening the navi gation channels of the bay, river, arifl Victoria Dock. The work will extend for years. . .