AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

I rSTP.ALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ARCHBISHOP WRIGHT’S CONDITION. SYDNEY. Feb. 11. The condition of Archbishop Wright is still causing serious concern. Prayers are being offered for his recovery. SYDNEY WOOI. SALES. SYDNEY, Keb. 11. At the wool sales there was a good demand, prices being firm at late rates. GERMAN SEAMEN’S STRIKE. SYDNEY. Ech. <ll. It is stated that most of the striking German seamen agreed to return to their ships under the old conditions, I'lio lud a nee will he sent hack to Genmuiv.

BAKERS’ UNION DEREGISTERED. SYDNEY. Ech. 11. As the outcome "f the bakers’ trouble, ill" Industrial Court to-day deregistered t lie Operative Rakers* Union, on the grounds that it had participated in an illegal strike. Previously the Cnion had been lined Pdf), on wineli only CIO hits >0 far boon I'aii-l Th"' Court gave it a fortnight to pay the balance. (ACCOUNTANTS GAMBLING CRAZE. SYDNEY. Eeh. 12. William Benjamin, an accountant, "’."s sentenced le three years imprisonment lor robbing hi-; late employers, Ro. hin-uu and Vincent, Sydney, of over In’: thousand sterling. The evidence ‘•hawed that fie was the victim of a gambling mania and was employed hy a number of leading linns, lie earned three in lour thousand per annum, hut started plunging mi races. made hitting debt., 0 1 live thousand and took Ih-- mein v it, pay them. He then worked his way as a common sailor lo An erica v.here iie was arrested penniless. ALLEGED I'.NS AEE MINES. SYDNEY, Eeh. 12. The report *f thu Chief Inspector o. Aimes on ihe nllegalmn of the danger in some of ihe Nortnem Alines stales Gat the mines are worked under ordinal ih sale eomtit inns, ami theie is nothing in justify the extravagant statemints made by the miners as to the danger,. There an: still eight, miner idle on 1 he northern Held. CYCLONIC STORM. BRISBANE, Eeh. 12

There is a cyclonic storm in Brisbane and suburbs, which caused heavy damage.