COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3363, 1 November 1911, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

LIVERPOOL PLAINS ELECTION. (United Press' Association —Copyright.) SYDNEY, October 31. The returns of the Liverpool Plains election give Mr Ashford a majority of 514, with, possibly a few postal votes to come. CLERKS’ WAGES. The Clerks’ Union has filed an application to the Wages Board, claiming £3 for a week of 39 hours. TRIANGULAR CONTESTS. Four out of six members of the Parliamentary Democratic party have resigned from the party owing to a difference of opinion regarding the advisability of contesting • the Maitland seat against the Government, the Opposition candidate seceding. Members state that if tliqro are to be no triangular contests the carrying on of Parliamentamounts to a farce. WON’T FLY TO THE POLE. ADELAIDE, Oct, 31. Dr. Mawson has decided not to use his aeroplane for flying during the Antarctic expedition. He will use it solely for sleighing purposes. Mr. Watkins, the aviator, is returning to Fugland. He is keenly disappointed at the decision. MOUNT LYELL STRIKE. The Mount Lyell strike is still on. The company demand that the men return unconditionally. If they do the company will grant a conference. The men decline to return until question of the dismissal of White is. disnosed of satisfactorily. VANDALS DESTROY PICTURES. (Rcceiv ed October'3l, 7.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 31. Four pictures, valued at £2OO. m the Society of Women Painters’ exliibiiton, have been destroyed. Vandalism is apparent^ IMMIGRANTS FOR AUSTRALIA. The, steamer Pakelia has arrived w.Th eleven hundred and twenty-eight m migrants, also fourteen of the crew of the wrecked steamer Papanui.