AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2651, 23 December 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

" v ..ELECTION PETITIONS SYDNEY CIVIC AFFAIRS. ■ y Telegraph—Press Association—CopyriffW ■ , - Sydney, December 22. ' Mr. Richards, the late Lord Mayor lias made a further application, oil similar grounds, to oust Mr. Jacobson, th< Seoond elected ' alderman for Mr •Richards's old ward. a [A message published on Tuesdaj stated: Another development has taken place in the municipal deadlock. AlderRichards ,has -initiated legal proceedings to test the election against his opponent in the . recent election, Alderman Vernon, on the ground of alleged impsoper voting impersonating.] TEAOHERS' SALARIES. MINIMUM OF £144. Sydney, December 22. Tie Teachers' Conference resolved that no classified teacher should receive Vsss than £144 per annum. THE RECRUITING SCHEME., . - LABOUR COUNCILS DISAGREE, ■ (Rec. December 22, 7.20 p.m.) Sydney, .December 22. The Coirnoil of the Waterside Workers' Federation, representing seventeen thousand members throughout the Commonwealth, passed! a resolution disapproving the Trades Hall Council reisolution advising unionists to fill-in cards under the recruiting scheme.. TARRED AND FEATHERED. BY RETURNED SOLDIERS. (Rec., December 22, 9.55 p.m.) Melbourne,. December 22. 'A band of returned soldiers visited the office of Mr. Katz, ' assistant secretary 'of the Clerks' Union, tarred, feathered, and bundled l him into the street. Katz "was taken to the hospital and cleaned ■ vp ' The incident ia allegedly the outcome of Katz moving a resolution at the Trades Hall Council meeting advising the affiliated unions to ignore the war census cards. . , Katz declares that the soldiers are under a misapprehension, .and that the matter could bo explained l , but' he was not given a clianco. LOADINC WHEAT VESSELS. . FEDERAL SHIPMENT HELD UP. (Rec. December 22, 7.20 p.m.) Melbourne, December 22. The wheat trouble has spread here, and as a protest against the award fixing minimum rates for loading wheat the wharf labourers stopped loading five thousand tons of wheat which the Federal Government is shipping to Britain,demanding two shillings an hour. - THE PRICE OF C-OAL. ADVANCE AT NEWCASTLE. (Rec. December 22, 9.55 p.m.) Sydney, December 22. The Commodities Commission agreed ' to the Northern colliery proprietors' proposal, to increase the selling price of coal from l lis. to ,12s. per ton, f.o.b. 'Newcastle, from the first-of'next month. On behalf of the proprietors it is point-

Ed out that this is the producers' price and does not'affect the wholesale anc retail prices. KURRINCCAI. TRAGEDY. AN EXTRAORDINARY' STORY, (Bee: December 23, 0.15 a.m.) Sydney, December 22. An extraordinary story was . told at the "inquest -on-'* the Kurringgai tragedy. A girl'of -seven related that her . mother told the children they were going to drink poison and die together, otherwise-they would be shot. Sne put a pea-rifle in the hamper, bought a rope, and took the children to Sydney, where she bought another "un and bottles of stuff and proceeded to Knrriuggai. The boy refused the -poison, and attempted to escape. The. mother tied him to a tree and shot him pointblank. The mother drank the poison _ and made the girl drink also. The mother laid down and. the girl escaped. A verdict of murder and suicide .was returned.