AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143674, 19 December 1911, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

CAB DRIVERS’ STRIKE. By "Elcctrio Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Dec. 19, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Doc. 19 Cab drivers are striking against a proposal to biro vehicles for from six to seven shillings. About a hundred are affected. A STEAMER’S CARGO. (Received Dec. 19, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 19. The whole of the Brooklyn’s cargo has been saved and tho vessel handed to tile underwriters. TEACHERS WANT THE PLUMS. (Received Dec. 19, 11.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 19, Tho Teachers’ Conference had a long debate, resenting what it termed plums of tiie Department going to Imported officers, and affirmed the principle that where practicable Australians should bo appointed to vacancies. MT. LYELL DISPUTE. (Received Dec. 19, 11.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Doc. 19. Tiie conference of the Mt. Lyoll Company and tiie miners’ delegates has ended abruptly without a settlement. A STEAMER ON FIRE. (Received Doe. 19, 11.5 0.m.) ADELAIDE, Dec. 10. The fire on tho steamer Boilefeld at Port Pirie is still burning. She has a cargo of 15,000 bales of wool and 1000 tons of sulphur. SHIPPING CHARGES INCREASED. SYDNEY, Dec. 18. From to-day tiie inter-State shipping fares and freights will he increased by 5 per cent, to cover the increased expenditure as the result of the recent improved conditions tiie court awarded tfjo seamen. RECORD ENGLISH MAIL. SYDNEY. Dec. 18. A record English Christmas mail.has been received, amounting to 315,000 letters. PASSENGERS QUARANTINED. SYDNEY', Dec. 18. Seventy of . tho Zealandia’s immigrants have been quarantined, owing to an outbreak of diphtheria. None are serionslv affected.