AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2670, 17 January 1916, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

! THE BIG STRIKE AT BROKEN HILL | POET PIR.IE ON THE BLACK LIST. JSyTdegrapli—Press Association—Copyright i , (Bee. January 16, 5.5 p.m.) : Sydney, January 15. The Broken Hill mines have been ! , strongly picketed, and arrangements are feeing completed for. the issue of food i : tickets to the strikers. ■ [ • A meeting of the Amalgamated' Min- ; . ere' Association declared the Port Pirie i works "black," and any members of the association there who continued to work , .would he expelled. - The association is j also instructing the unions. throughout 'Australia to decline to handle the Port firio produots. ANTI.GERMAN RIOTS AT PRAHRAN I r SHOP "WINDOWS SMASHED. : . _ Melbourne, January 15. i 'Anti-German riots oxurred at Prahi ' .-ten. Many shop windows were smashed, i. The military and civil police had the greatest difficulty in restoring order, :. Md over forty arrests were made. REFUSALS TO ENLIST. , 2965 OUT OF 3461. i Melbourne, January 15. Out of 3461 replies on the recruiting cards received in the Metropolitan area, J. 2965 are-refusals to enlist. : I - ■ DECENTRALISING THE OAMPS. ■ (Rec. January 15, 10 a.m.) j : Sydney, January 15. | • The. decentralisation of the military organisation continues: ' Many country oamps are being opened. ■ GR.KEK VOLUNTEERS. • Sydney, January 15. Greeks in tho.city are petitioning for permission to-form a company to serve I with the Expeditionary Forces.

, KILLINC THE GERMAN TRADE OCTOPUS.

'ANOTHER PULL AT THE NET. , ' Melbourne, January 10. :The Federal Prime Minister (Mr. W. ■ M. Hughes) has announced. that companies incorporated in Australia, having . naturalised or unnaturalised ' enemy ; aliens" holding shares, will receive three .• months within which such holding of shares must be discontinued. No exceptions will be allowed, except with the permission of the Attorney-General. In future, : the transfer of shares 'to , enemy aliens will not be allowed. Simi- ! transfer of land to such people Will also not he allowed. THE FITZROY TRAGEDY. ASSERTION OF ACCIDENT •DISPROVE. Melbourne, January 15. At' the • inquest- on the vie- . tirns of . the Fitzroy tragedy, Miss Sparks, the Coroner said that Dawson's story of an accidental dis- : charge was disproved by the \ medical evidence, which showed that the muzzle i of the" revolver was placed inside the : .woman's mouth and iirefd. - : [A man name'dl Raymond Victor Daw- , son, 25 years of age, gave himself up : to the police at. the beginning of last week, and confessed to fatally shooting ; Yera .May Sparks (aged 23). Dawson i Said,he followed the woman into the ■ kitchen, of a house, carrying a revolver f which he supposed was unloaded. He : jokingly said he would shoot the woman, i who replied: "You could not shoot a • worm. Jestingly, he levelled the re- . volver and pulled the trigger. Instead of an a.udible click, the revolver went off, killing the woman. Dawson was Wrested on a charge of murder.] KILLED BY HER HUSBAND. ; ; THE ULTIMO TRAGEDY. * T Sydney, January 15. . ALre. E. J. Hayes, who was the vic- : time of a brutally savagj assault at the hands of her husband at Ultimo has .'succumbed to her injuries. . ' . [Hayes smashed his,wife's head with air axe, and then cut his own throat : with fatal results. The couple had: had frequent quarrels, and after a fow on . Tuesday Hayes left the house. He returned early next morning, smashed in the window witli an axe, and entered the -room in which his wife was sleeping with, six of their eight children, one of ; whom unavailingly tried to ward off the : Wow which was aimed at her mother. A note in Hayes's poc'cot referred to : family troubles and his intention to kill his wife.]