GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 180, 25 April 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

STRIKES IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, April 24. . The cnrpenlers'i.strike at'Broken-,Hill, lias spread to Port Pine, whore the carpenters employed by the associated smelters have struck. Seven collieries are idle in tho northern district. ' The men's action is believed to.be part of a N preconcerted plan, to force tho owners and tho Government to grant increases, and serious trouble is anticipated—Press Assn- ■

1 TONNAGE FOR AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, April 2-1. • Tho Shipping Board has announced that fourteen enemy steamers in Britaiu will be allotted to the Australian run in May.—Press Assn. MURDER 14R EXECUTED. (Rec. April 24, 0.50 p.m.) ' Sydney, April 24. Percival Budd, who is believed to be a New Zealander, has been executed for thi murder of Jaques, towards the end of last year.—Press Assn. [On November 22 l.ast a motor driver named Harold Jaques was engaged to drive a 'man named Budd to Crystal Brook. Jacques's body, tile head battered to a pulp, was subsequently found buried beneath his own car in premises at Pott Piric, where . Budd, lodged. Budd's landlady stated that Budd dug a l.ole, stating that he. intended clearing the wider-gear of the motor-car. Sub-seo-uently a car was broaght in aiul a shed erected over it. Budd was arrested on a charge of murdering Jacques. -He stated that he bought the car fo)- »C 300.]