AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

VOBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE A.SOCIATION.

PARER’S HARD LUCK. PERTH February 8. t Lieut. Parer explaining his recent accident states that it was due to his own mistake as in liis hurry to get away he did not warm his engine sufficiently. He took off at 60 miles an 'hour and the engine back-fired after leaving the ground and as the carburettor was starting the engine cut out. MISSING WITNESS LOCATED. SYDNEY, Feb. 8. ! Albert White, the missing witness, whom the police were searching for in connection with the Tirtschke murder, 1 has been located by the police at Ashfield. He is being taken to Melbourne. 1

REDUCING WAGES. (Received This Dav at 10.15 n.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 9. The wages of gas employees have been reduced 6s weekly in accordance with

the mutual agreement for the l wages rise or fall according to the figures of the Commonwealth Statistician.

EDUCATION 'INNOVATION. SYDNEY, Feb. 9. The Education Department, two year ago, initiated a scheme of teaching bj post and now have 23 teachers and oven one thousand students. Recently twenty children, most of whom lmc never been inside a school in their lives sat for .a qualifying certificate examination and sixteen passed 1 . STEEL INDUSTRY SLUMP. SYDNEY, Feb. 9. The steel works at Newcasle are overstocked with iron ore. Quarrying foi ore at, iron knob has accordingly been suspended. Four hundred men are affected. The directors estimate a reduction of thirty-three per cent in wages and coal costs is imperative to enable the Company to compete with oversea rivals. AGAINST THE REDS. SYDNEY, Feb. 9. The annual convention of Australian Workers’ Union declined to affiliate with tht Red Internatoinal Trades’ Unid at Moscow. A FIRE MYSTERY. SYDNEY, Feb. 9. • The Fire ißrigades and Police are baffled by mysterious outbreaks of fire |at a house at Darling Point, Sydney. Fourteen distinct outbursts occurred within twenty-four Fours, the police and firemen being compelled to remain on the job in readiness. The building is a ramshackle place, set in a, neglected garden. Ghosts have been suggested bv some but a close analysis of the furnishings are expected to reveal that mischievous people saturated the place with a solution containing phosphorous, the evaporation whereof causing the ; flames. POLITICAL VACANCY. MELBOURNE, Fell. 9. Three nominations have been received for Yarra vacancy, Andrew Davidson (National), James Scullen (Labour), ’ Frederick Smyth (Independent). j