AUSTRALIAN

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1922, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. NO EVIDENCE. SYDNEY, Aug 26. 'The ’Justice Department has concluded their ifivcdigfitions into the charges -against Lend be a ter, cabled on 23rd May. The Crown Solicitor is of opinion that there is insufficient evidence available to obtain a conviction on any charge. A DUTCHMAN’S PROTEST. SYDNEY Aug 26. M. Oordia, ■.Manager of the lloyal Packet,‘Navigation Coy. as'a Hollander, writes to tbe “Herald” eulogising Justice Chapman’s letter discouraging the proposal to change Tasman to Anzae. •The Australian Labour Party officially repudiated the go-slow proposals enunciated by tbe Labour Councils. DISASTROUS” FIRE. BRISBANE, Aug 26. Fifteen business places at Chinchilla wer destroyed by a fire. The damage is estimated at £40,000. ATHLETICS. SYDNEY, Aug. 2,. The New South Wales five miles cioss-country championship was won by M. Mackenzie (South Sydney, m minutes 53secs.

A FATAL FIRE. !A FIREMAN KILLED. (Received this day At 8 1 a.m.) SYDNEY, A 28. V fire ‘attended by loss °f l’f°' oc ' erred in Adams Hotel, extending from Pitt to George Streets to-night. It started in the fourth floor, and gutted that and the third and fifth floors. Firemen using Simond’s extension ladder eighty-five feet long, worked from its own base by electricity, when the top portion, from some unknown cause suddenly swung out and a fireman named Drown when sixty feet up fell to the roof of a lower building and thence to the ground, being killed. Leonard Chappell fell forty feet and was injur--0(1 being in a precarious condition. A third fireman Dwyer, was slightly injured. The damage was very heavy. A large nmrtbtr of inmates'had>tomako a hurried exit and 'lost heavily.