AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11931, 29 October 1919, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

LESS MARRYING. United Press 'Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Oct. 29, noon. Sydney, Oct. 29. The vital statistics ot 1918 show that the marriage rate was the lowest for twenty years. DIRECT TRADE WITH FINLAND A Finnish company with a capital of 30,000,000 of*Finnish marks, is opening an office in Sydney to establish direct trade between Finland and Australia. It has already secured an option over a line of steamers. ROYAL COMMISSION ON DROUGHT. In the Legislative Council Mr Carruthers moved the adjournment, and drew attention to the, appalling effects of the drought. He proposed the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the economic prospects of the agricultural interests. SHIPPING. Newcastle, Oct. 29. Sailed.—Katoa, for New Zealand. A SUDDEN STRIKE. Melbourne, Oct. 29. Owing to dissatisfaction at the recent award, the enginedrivers and firemen of the trans-Continental railwav struck, holding up an express 200 miles from Kalgoorlie. The officials later brought the train back to Kalgoorlie. LIBEL ACTION DISMISSED. The wharf labourers’ libel action against the Age, cabled on Angust 27th has been dismissed with costs, plaintiffs not app aring.