COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3195, 15 April 1911, Page 7

COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

SUNDAY TRADING TO BE SUPPRESSED.

(.UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION- -COPYRIGHT-! SYDNEY, April 13. Mr. Beeby, State Minister for Labor, promised a deputation that Sunday trading would be suppressed. DISLOYAL UNION OFFICIALS.

A Ministerial party is visiting Broken Hill. At a luncheon two leading union officials refused to stand and honor the toast of the King. The presence of ladies prevented a demonstration. The Ministers were offended. NEW SOUTH WALES’ LAND POLICY.

Mr. R. Neilson, State Minister of Lands, speaking at Coesturgalong, said the Government intended throwing open vacant Crown lands, instead of resuming private owned properties. The railways would go before the people. WHITTY THE CRICKETER ILL. Whitty, the cricketer, has been operated on for appendicitis, and is recoverUI THE PENNY POST. The postal authorities are preparing for increased business owing, to the inauguration of the penny post on May Ist CAUGHT AFTER MANY YEARS. The police have arrested William Hall, who escaped from custody nine years ago while serving a sentence for burglary. He had been in New Zealand part of the time in gaol. VICTORIAN WHEAT YIELD. MELBOURNE, April 12. The actual wheat yield of the recent harvest was 27,790,000 bushels, an average of 13.09 per acre. The yield was 4,250,000 bushels above the estimate, owing to the crops in the southern districts exceeding expectations. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. ' The Federal Government is despatching a scientific expedition to the Northern Territory, probably under the leadership of Professor Baldwin Spencer, to thoroughly examine, the farming, the mineral and other resources, and collect scientific data. A RECORD WHEAT CARGO. The steamer Monarch took a record cargo of wheat, 387,413 bushels. SHORTAGE OF RAILWAY TRUCKS. I’he shortage of railway trucks is causing serious losses. The Commissioners are contracting for the construction of 2000 new trucks. v COAL IN PAPUA. Mr. Staniforth Smith reports that there are undoubtedly large deposits of coal in Papua, but in the rough country. Barges cannot be taken within '<o miles, and it is doubtful if it would be payable to work the deposits. THE NEW NOTE ISSUE. MELBOURNE April 13. It is estimated that the new issue of bank notes will cease on July 1. there null then be sufficient paper money torn eot a demand up to eleven millions sterling. DEGREES FOR COLONIAL PREMIERS. The English universities have expressed a desire to confer honorary degrees on visiting Dominion Premiers. A TWELVE-POUND NUGGET. BRISBANE, April 13. A twelve-pound nugget, found at Ebagoolali, North 1 Queensland, yielded two hundred and twenty pounds sterling s worth of gold. THE COMMONWEALTH PREMIER. PERTH, April 13. Mr Fisher, addressing a farewell gathering, • said that the Federal Govor union t hay© decided that the trailsContinental railway shall he one of the first measures for next session. He hopedi that the result of the Imperial Co liter enlce would he that the people would he brought to see- that it was wrong, to spend money on ships for the destruction! of humanity.