AUSTRALIAN.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11968, 22 June 1907, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, June 21. The Sollran has arrived from Greyffiouth. She experienced rough vvea ther, during which part of the deck cargo was washed away. The vessel wa_ ten days knocking about off the Coast before she was able to make port. „ ... . Tho Katel Tatham, from Psapier, also had a roiigh time. Sir Wm. Lyne, Federal Minister of Customs/ declares thai the result of the Navigation Conference might satisfy everyone. It really meant that the Commonwealth could do what it liked regulating its own Shipping.- 3 , . A shunter has been suspended in connection with the Werris Creek railway accident. One of the indications of the congestion of shipping at Newcastle is that five captains have been lined for remaining at their moorings when loaded after the stipulated time. The defence was their; helplessness through being unable to obtain Women now accompany the coal lumpers' strike processions. Two strikers were arrested yesterday after a demonstration in the vicinity of the Employers' Bureau. The Wharf Labourers' Union has decided that, unless a conference were granted the lumper 3 by the 25tb inst., the wharf lnbourers would reconsider their position regarding the dispute/