AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1923, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

tUSTRAT.IAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. CYCLING 1? A(I'OSTI’ONF.I). SYDNEY, Dec. 27 As Liu- iv.uk of lust night’s ruin, I In., six days' cycling contest has been postponed till the weather r> more favourable. oil, FIELD Kll.U'D. SYDNEY. Doc. 21). Tlioinpsnii has la-on a n ested on a charge of conspiring with Rothkehl to del rand the public., in connection with the hake Eva oil case. It A 11. W AY.M I'iX’S COXRITIONS. SYDNEY. Dec. 27. An in ter-Stat e Committee representing the Australian Railways Union is preparing a now log, revising wages and conditions affecting ninety thousand railway employees, with ail annual salary hill at present amounting to ten millions. niton:HT ENDED. SYDNEY, Dee. 27. The area covered by the rainstorm affected Xew South "Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and -South Australia. The drought in Xew South AVales is thoroughly broken. Flood warnings have been issued, as the northern rivers are rising rapidly. A HANK HORDED. MELBOURNE. Doe. 27. |iv means of forged correspondence wherein he Used the Rank’s private cede, a man defrauded the head office of the English. Scottish and Australian Rank of £2500. No arrest has been made. ANDERSON WILL PRAY. MELBOURNE, Dee. 27. Anderson, the Davis C'up captain, who recently announced that he did not intend again to play first class tennis, has now written to Brookes stating that owing to recent heavy losses of the Victorian Association through floods, lie feels it his dutj to assist the Association and therefore decided to participate, in Australasian championships in January. He will partner Brookes in the doubles and also probably play in the singles. MOTHER- AND DAUGHTER DROAYXED. ADELAIDE, Dee. 27. Mrs Fitzgerald and her four-year old daughter were drowned in the Swan Reach of the Murray Riter. as a result of a motor collision. The car following the one in which they were travelling bumped the rear and both cars fell into the river. The occupant of the, second one was rescued.