AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1923, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION BAKERS and NIGHT WORK. SYDNEY, October 29. A mass meeting of the operative bakers decided to resist, by all means in their power, the attempts to compel baking outside the hours of six in the morning and six in the evening. MOTOR LORRY OVERTURNS. SYDNEY, October 29. Owing to a motor lorry overturning at Miranda, en route to Cronulla, a party of fourteen picnickers were thrown, on the roadway, six being seriously injured. The lorry dived over a culvert in endeavouring to swerve past another motor. ELLIOTT’S UNINSURED. SYDNEY, October 29. ]t is ascertained that the damage to Elliott’s was uninsured. Tli e total damage amounts to a hundred thousand. Elliott's loss is seventy thousand. FOUR SHOPS DESTROYED. SYDNEY, October 29. Four shops were destroyed by lire in the business centre of Moree. The damage is fifteen to twenty thousand. JOURNALIST DEAD. SYDNEY, October 29. Obituary—\Y. F. Barbett, a- noted sporting journalist. TIMBER YARDS DESTROYED. MELBOURNE. October 29. Mill ready, Bovan and Clarks timber yards at Eitzroy were destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at twen-ty-live thousand. MELBOURNE, Oct. 28 It, is stated that the price paid by Kelso for Sunburst was 700 guineas. Connolly has stopped training AH Sunshine and Polytheist, and has sent them for a spell. He also sold his stork of meadow hay specially sent from New Zealand for his horses. These acliotts are regarded as the result of Connolly’s dissatisfaction at the stipendiary stewards questioning .sunburn’s running in (he Windsor handicap.

FATAL FALL. MELBOURNE. Od. 29. Dunstan was subsequently taken to the hospital front the Stadium. He never regained consciousness and died yesterday. An examination showed that the base of his skull was fractured by falling on to the iloor. Dunstan was 2;) years of age anti formerly was a boxing instructor in the Australian Navy and champion of the Fleet. TASMANIAN POLITICS. HOBART. October 29. Mr Lee. cx-J’rcniier and Nationalist header, lias received a statement signed by six of the Nationalist- Party members, indicating it. is their tuienton to support Mr Lyons's new Labour Government for the purposes of receiving supply and a short adjournment. Tito ex-I’rentier, on this intimation, at once resigned the leadership ol tin:composite party. MAIL BAG THEFT. SYDNEY. Oct. 29. The man arrested lor tile New Zealand mail bag robbery (cabled yesterday) is Leonard Charles Mills, the chief steward of the steamer Katun. He i-- charged with stealing the mail hug.