AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13664, 31 March 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

' m» ' THE- WHAfIF STRIKE. By Electric Telegraph.-^-Copyright. . SYDNEY, March 30. There is no change in the coastal strike. The companies get an occasional steamer away. PLAGUE IN SYDNEY. 1 ■" "gYDNEY^Mareh 3C~T A youth named Robinson, employed on a wharf <in Darling Jiarbour, ha^ contracted the plague. PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS REFUSED. (Received March 31,* 9.37 a.m.) , - .SYDNEY, March 81. The Arbitration Cdurt's award in connection with the work of firemen and deck hands of the ferry services declares that no case for preference to unionists . has been made out. PAINf^RS' STRIKE. *' SYDNEY, March. 31. The master painters bare refused the request of the strikers to meet them in conference. AN AWKWARD MISTAKE. SYDNEY, Marcn 31. A passenger on the railway was recently removed from a carriage,, the officers believing him to be drunk. He was really ill. He has now recovered £200 damages from the Railway Commissioners for his removal. STATESMAN WHO DIED POOR. MELBOURNE, March 81. The lat© ex-Premier James Munro left property valued r at £208. Formerly he was possessed of .estates estimated to be worth a quarter of a million pounds. . MURDERER MISSING. ADELAIDE, March 31. Coleman, the murderer of Constable King, is still missing.