AUSTRALIAN.
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn) SYDNEY/March 13. ,
The output of metals in New South' Wales for the past year is valued at • £14,018,648, an increase of £2,607,186 compared with the previous year. The coal output/totalled 10,783,387 record —being an increase of 7388 tons. At the inquest on the victims of the ',' Goulboum quarry mishap, the Coroner \\ found, that they died from nitro benzine ! poisoning, due to inhaling fumes given off during charging the tunnel with lith- | ite and rendrock saturated ,with nitro benzine oil. The Coroner added a rider, "The use of such explosives under- , gr6und, should be prohibited or regulated."
(Received March 14, 10.35 asm.) ' SYDNEY, March 14. ' Mice are again troublesome in the .' wheat, Country in the Southf-We&t. Stacks at railway sidings and haystacks are heavily infested* (Received March 14, 10.40 a.m.) The Huddart, Parker Company's balance sheet at the end of December . shows a profit of £109,718,! against £112,714 for 1920. . A,dividend W,as declared of three per cent, on preferred shares and four per' cent, .With., a four .' per cent, bonus on ordinary shares for , the half year to December. MELBOURNE, March,; The price of wheat has been-reduced 2$ to 5s lOd per bushel, and flour,has been reduced 10s peri.ton. = • ; *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15773, 14 March 1922, Page 3
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