Sydney, Jan. 15, Disturbing reports are being received from the northern coalfields, where the miners have struck. work' owing to the State Government's attempt to run the collieri by volunteer labour. Safetymen and deputies have had to be withdrawn, and some pits are likely to be permanently ruin The police to-day made a baton charge and scattered 2,000 miners, accompanied by women, who marehfrom Cessnock to the gates of Abermain colliery at Kearsley.
After the clash the police commandeered motor lorries and raced to-Hurri, where 9,000 miners were dillling "in the strocts, but. the latter dispersed when " requested. Some ex-soldiers undertook the drilling.
The Minister of Mines has issued 'a'warning that the stage may soon 'be reached when an appeal will be made to the community to oppose the violence of drilled mobs of lawbreakers.
The New, South Wales coal requirements from the _unaifected areas have been only half met, the Government contemplates reimposing restriction on the use of gas. Reuter. coming financial year.
Although these new planes will be of experimental types they will, if Is are successful, be built stable numbers. They will be all metal, and most of them will be able to carry between 40 and 50 passengers. Their range will be of about 1,000 miles.
One of the first to be launched will have accommodation for 50 passengers, and if the present inter tion of equipping it with six Napier engines is followed it will be driven by over 4,000 horse-power. It is expected that this vessel will be out on the first stages of the Cairo-Cape Airway which will have Been opened before the end of the year—British Wireless through Reater.
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