Australian News.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 February 1913, Page 3

Australian News.

[by KLHCrI'.fC TBbKOI'.AI'U- vi/f7itlOHXj [PflK I'RKBS ABBOGIATi63-i (Received This Day, 8.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A boat capsized in the harbour Mrs Dummett and her little daughter were drowned. A lire gutted livo shops at Summer Hi'll; the damage is heavy. The Hon. Mr O'-Malley performed the ceremony of driving the central p 0 o; in connection with the laving out of the Federal Capital. Archbishop Kelly celebrated a Pontificial mass on the summit of Mount Kosciusko. A large gathering including the Bishop of Maitland participated in the elevated celebrations. The Tnnamicka lias heen docked. The damage done during Ikm - recent stranding was slight. The Melbourne six days' cycling contest was started at midnight. Thirteen teams are competing. The headless body found in Maloney's Creek has been identified as that of James Taylor, who disappeared from the Meechworth Benevolent Asylum in December. Arrived Star of Xow Zealand, l'rom New York. Albany- Arrived- Prince George, from New Zealand. •SYDNEY, This Day. The Hon. Mr o'Mailey has warned the Labour Unions against strikes; these only played into the hands of "boodlers." Personally lie never did half a day's work; he was one of those who schemed, and who had been able to make '"boodle" to some little extent without manual labour. "Boodlers" made money by learning how to m<nke workers work. What "boodlers" wanted was to create a financial crisis or a great strike before the next- Federal elections. The Adelaide officials of the labour unions at Port Pine complain of the increasing influx of foreigners who are pusritig the Britons out of their jobs. They declared that Russian and Italian secret societies existed. Recently the unsuccessful Norwegian whaling expedition swelled the rankp bv discharging a crew of thirty Norwegians.