AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144779, 8 September 1915, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

• FRENCH MAIL.SERVICE BY EIJIOIEIO TELEGRAPH.—COPTBIGHf. (Received • Sept. ,8, 8.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 8. The Sontay, the first French mail steamer for Australia under the new time-table, will reach Sydney, via Singa‘pore, Batavia and Noumea. < THE WORLD® PRESS CONGRESS. (Received 'Sept. 8, 8.5 a.m.) . SYDNEY, Sept. 8. Mr. Holman has -been advised by the president of -the Press Congress of the World that it has accepted the Government* s invitation for the conference to meet "in Sydney in 1918. A THEATENED STRIKE. ; SYDNEY, Sept. .7. The members of the Coal and Shale Employees’ Association, which includes Queensland and Victoria, have resolved, as the coal-owners refused to increase their wages, to give a fortnight’s notice of the termination of the existing agreement, from September 13. In the meantime efforts will be made to seonro a satisfactory solution. A STRANDED STEAMER.. BRISBANE, Bept. 7. All attempt® to float the Mntlah ao far Save proved nnavailing. STRIKE AT PELAW MAIN. (Received Sept. 8, 8.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 8. A German, who was working at Pelaw' Slain, owing to his pro-German utterances, was thrashed by an Australian, who was reported to the manager and dismissed. The wheelers later refused to work with other German employees and the mine is idle. NORTON GRIFFITHS AND CO. AT WORK. (Received Sept. 8, 8.40 a.m.) : SYDNEY, Sept. 8. Norton Griffiths and Co. have taken over a number of railway construction works. AN EARTHQUAKE RECORD. (Received Sept. 8, 8.30 am.) i _ MELBOURNE, Sept. 8. i The Biyey View seismograph recorded a very violent earthquake 6800 miles distant.