AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

'CSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, A BIG EIRE. SYDNEY. Oet. 28. A disitstroii- lire ;it Atniandalc eonslimed (). R. Ellit.Ua liitge, hettvilystoeked i'urnitui'o iiietory. The fire spread across the street, and destroyed two shops and two cottages. It also damaged three others. The electric light services were also partially disabled, owing to the smashing of wires. The damage runs into many thousands. P. AND 0. FAILING'S. MELBOURNE. Oet. 27. The Peniu-uhtr and Orient Companies have advised the Postmaster General that owing to tlie impraetieahililv of altering the present schedule of sailing-, they will he unable to expedite the sailing of mail steamers in order to red nee The time for answering Brd;i- b correspondence. HREAIEN INJURED. •SYDNEY. Oct. 29. During Elliott’s (ire. a fireman trod on a broken wire and Wits burned, and •suffered severe sit nek. A comrade who went to his assistance, was also laid out. Imt Intli were thrown clear of the wire and other firemen rescued them. Their injuries are not serious. A LIQUOR SAIASHEB. SYDNEY. Oet. 29. A liquor reformer alleged to he a former inmate of a mental asylum entered tlm .Alo-sman Hotel, armed with :iii iron bar. He smashed twenty-four bottles of v ine and ten ef whiskey, declaring: ”1 don't dt ink myself, and don't want others to drink."

HOSTILE TO LABOUR PARTY 1 MELBOURNE, Oet. 2,. Afr Blakeley, the Secretary of tlaFederal Labour Party, lias expressed resentment at the action of the Govcrn-et-Oeneral in .‘peaking unl.'iviuiralily of Government enterprise, in view of the fact of Labour's platform contain) it;; a plank in its favour. Air Rlaki !y say- that a meeting of tlie Labour I’ai tv will lie called for th" |mrp'Ose of considering whether the Imperial ( .'evenimeui should he a Iced lo recall Governor-!ieneral Kor.-ler. BEL I -N.Z.) THIRD. MELBOURNE. O.t. 29. Readjustments give Beil (New Zealand) on eighteen minutes handicap, third |daiv in the Warm ill bool Cvel" load race. Willson (N"V.' Zealand). ]<i minutes, was lil'lli, and O'Shea finished Rlth.