AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 March 1913, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[BT KLBCTIUC TELKOaAIJI--COPyni<»HT] fPBLI PRKHB 4JWOCIATION ] (Iteceivred This Day, 10.?5 i.m.) THE QASWOB-KERS 1 STRIKE. (Received This Day, D.25 a.m.) SIDNEY, This Day. Besides tho boot trade, many other trades are directly and indirectly affected by the gas workers' strike. One hundred mor© will bo idle unless a settlement ie reached to-day. Tbe numbers are greatly augmented by the clothing manufacturers' decision to close their ■businesses. This .vill throw close on five thousand mon our of work in the printing and oth r trades where gas is employed. it lias also seriously handicapped four ■.hundred working jewellers ani thrown them out of work. The Australian Gaslight Company is advertising for a thousand men, and th North Shore Company for four hundred men to fill the places of strikers. Tho Jnspector-Genoral of Police is taking steps to have an adequate supply of police in tho city and suburbs to provide protection for tfie men replacing the strikers. He ,s drafting many additional polico fron tho country. Tho North Shoro Com pany-hae adopted a firm stand mrf will not negotiate further until tho men resume. It Ims been suggested hy the unions that the refusal of tho directors to accopt the men's proposals has a legal aspect under the Gas Act. They could paee. on -So the consumers « proportion of the extra cost of tho wages resulting from Wages Board Awards, but thoj would still have to go through the? formality of getting the sanction <>l' a judge'to such a stop, and the companies (it ie alleged) are afraid that they would not be aWo to mako goot 1 their case hefore tho Judge that tho increase (which represents about twenty-six thousand pounflb) had been forced upon them by the Wagos ftoard. A GOVERNOR FAREWELLED. (Rescoived This Day, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A large and demonstrative gathering of Sydney citizens gave a farewell banquet to Lord ' Chelmsford, in the Town Hall, the Lord Mayor presiding. The Lord Mayor, tfie Hon. Mr McGowen and Mr Wade paid tributes to the departing" Governor's work and hie popularity, with regret that he was unahle to complete his term of office. Lord Chelnififord, in reply, touched or. the question of democracy.' Ho doubted -whether there wae any tVminioTi under the British flag wherain personal liberty in so unqualified a degree as in Australia. SPORTING. Entries for tho A.J.O. Autumn Moeting totalled 712, against 681 last year. PECULIAR FATALITY. A peculiar railway accident <)«■ curred at Murrurundi. Driver Sharp and Fireman' "Whelihan got off au engine and eat down on a little-nsed line. Apparently they both wore dozing, for an engine came along and ran orer Sharp and killed him. TVholihan was badly injured.