AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1922, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN.

AUSIi!CII lAN AND N.A. GASIJS ASHOIJI* TWN. MOORE BARK MURDER. SYDNEY, Dec. 9. Jenson, charged with Moore Park murder was acquitted. SHIPPING TROUBLE. SYDNEY, Dec. 9. Madmen has cancelled his passage in the Moeraki. to join his wife, who is’booked by the Ulimaroa, sailing this afternoon. No efforts have been made to date to man the Union Coy’s vessel trading to Tasmania "ith volunteer cnves,”ns the Company is not desirous of causing complications at Australian ports, which will ho likely if visited by non-union crows. The Seamans Union notified all imams concerned in the shipping strike that it does not desire tlic-m to e involved in the dispute- , , Though only thirty-six stokers aiul deck hands were wanted for tbs Himama, over 300 applied. MELEE AT SYDNEY. SYDNEY, Dec. 10 Bitter feeling is now existing on the waterfront over the action of the British seamen signing on as volunteers on the “black” ships. This meeting culminated in a brutal attack on some British seamen at Miller’s Point, when one of them was .savagely beaten and kicked, as the result of which he was taken to the hospital. During the mi,, women danced oil the footpath!

howling encouragement to the attackers until the police arrived and dispersed the crowd.