AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[by tei.ec;hath —run i*rf.ss association*.’] nine .shops and mote I. BCR NT. [Received this day at 9.0 a.in.) BRISBANE, April 8. A fire at linglicnclen destroyed nine shops and a hotel, the damage being twenty thousand. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS. STATE OK PARTIES UNCHANGED

ADELAIDE. ’April 8. The state of parties is unchanged. TRAMWAY.MEN’S THREAT. BRISBANE, April 8. A meeting of the Tramway Employees Union discussed the Department’s alleged. flouting-of the Federal award and decided to take a ballot to see whether tlie Union would declare a regulation strike during the visit of the fleet as a protest. If they decide in the affirmative the employees will adhere so strictly to the regulations that they will practically disorganise the service. PUBLIC SERVANTS AND STATE. MELBOURNE. .April 7. The State Governments of Victoria. Now South Wales and South Australia are taking action for the repeal of the registration of the Public Servants Association. under the Commonwealth Arbitration Act as an industrial body of employees. One of the grounds of the action is that members are employed- by the King and are not engaged in any industry.

the farm TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, April 8. Mitchell in a statement from the witness box. added that when Pathvbridge was dying be said to mo : “Say there was no strychnine in’the place and get away as quickly as you can. Don’t tell them what we have done, as I don’t want to bring disgrace on my family.”