AUSTRALIAN.
SYDNEY, Jan. 2. The Australian Labor party has purchased the Daily Mail newspaper, which they will publish as a Labor daily. ' Ten pits are idle in the Northern coal* fields, in most cases throught miners deciding to extend their Christmas holidays. (Received January 3, 11.45 sum.) SYDNEY, Jan. 5. The rival football codes have secured a lease of the Agricultural ground on satisfactory terns, each of the four bodies arranging mutually on dates for allotment. It is believed much saving will be effected by securing the grounds jointly, in future, as hitherto the grounds took advantage of the hostility, especially between the League and Union, to exact considerably higher terms. In accordance with, the terms of a fonnight’s notice, the coke-workers on the South Coast have ceased work. The owners fear the coal miners may. be affected in sympathy. Obituary: J. A. Mayo, a turf identity, owner of Lord Cardigan arid Lord Nolan, winners of the Melbourne Cup. (Received Jan. 3, noon.) SYDNEY, Jan. 3. Messrs Wright and Hughes, repre senting a Melbourne syndicate, have signed u contract for three thousand pounds with tha Commonwealth for dismantling the fittings of the battleship Australia, which will be sunk oh April 25 outside the Heads.,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16321, 3 January 1924, Page 3
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