AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

IUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAI?I.K ASSOCIATION. DISASTROFS Si’ll I K E. (Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) SYDNEY. Oct. Hi. Rocs (President of the Miners’ Federation) in formed the West Wallsend miners that the recent stoppage as a protest against a local magistrate, was one of tilt- most disastrous in the history of the Federation, which lost £10.).Ol):; in expenditure lor relief, and in other directions. FALL OF COAL IN MINK. SYDNEY. Oct. Hi. A berimtin (ollb-rv was idled yesterdav as a. cimsequence of live hundred tons uf earth and coal collapsing in the travelling tunnel, a quarter ol an hour prior to the miners entering lor the day’s duties. 1 liree hundred miners were gathered round the tunnel mouth at the time, preparing to enter.

FLOOD WATERS RECEDING. .MELBOURNE. Oct. Hi. Though light rains were recorded in parts the Yarra waters are rapidly receding. DROWNING FATALITY. M FI.BO I TINE. Or!. 111. Another drowning fatality is reported. George Cook, aged 23. capsizing in a rowing hoar. SHOOTING. (Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) SYDNEY. Od. 111. 'Though the weather conditions at Liverpool range yenterdav wen tricky and hall ling ow ing to the high choppy winds, the shooting generally was ol a logit average. So far the usually troublesome mirage lias not been much in evidence: Steenson t( lam,tin) not Stevenson, won CK ill the Newinarch match, ten shots at nine hundred yards. His score of fortv-nine was one below the possible which the winner. Ilowartli, a local shot, put up. Donald won £1 and several other New Zealanders have taken £L prizes in various events. OBIITARY. ADELAIDE, Oct. Hi. Obituary. Doctor liolze. iormcr curator of the Botanic gardens, and a noted botanist.