Australian News.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 March 1914, Page 3

Australian News.

KLEC llt 1C TELEUHAI'II — C'OrYBIGHT. [l'Eit I'VJiSS ASSOCIATION. 1 RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Sydney, This Day. A train smash has occurred at Exeter on the Southern line. Full details are not available, but it is believed that seven have been killed and twenty injured. The Temora mail from Sydney crashed into a stationary train telescoping a passenger car and derailing the engine. The wildest confusion resulted. Relief trains conveying officials and doctors have been despatched. The rain and mist obscuring the signals is believed to have caused the collision.

Among the killed are Fred Kwzengogan, of Mittagong, Alice Eva, Cootamundra, James Eva, Parramatta-; and two women and one man whose names a ire unknown ; also the- guard of the mail train. Later messages state that fourteen were killed and six injured.

Tt is officially stated that fourtenn were Icilled and. six injured. COCKATOO ISLAND DOCK. Mr Julian King Salter has arrived by the Omruk to take charge of the Cockatoo Island dock, relieving Mr Cutler who shortly takes charge of the State dock. DOUBLE DISSOLUTION. Sir Robert Best, interviewed, thinks a double dissolution in the federal Parliament is certain before the end of the year. He believes tho Liberals will be returned to power with a slightly increased majority. WORSE THAN SOUTH AFRICA. ; Mr R. Semple is a passenger by the Maunganui. He said that < the industrial organisations in the Dominion received a sev<#re blow, but they were not defeated. He expressed the opinion that the result of the next election in about a year's time would be that the Massey Government would suffer defeat. He criticized the Government's treatment of the workers as worse than that by General Botha in South Africa. COMPENSATION WANTED. The Federated Licensed Victuallers' Conference has concluded. It approved of the principle of monetary compensation from fhe consolidated revenue to owners and 'licensees of hotels, whose li-censc-s nro lost as a consequence of local option. The next conference will be held in Wellington in 1915.