AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1924, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

EXPLOSION PARTICULARS

ADELAIDE, April 28,

When the explosion occurred, in the City of Singapore, the firemen Greenman was killed outright. The other two, Hickey and Anderson, were engulfed in wreckage. Later, the remains of one of them were found, but, as it consisted only of the skull and a few charred 'cones, identity was not established. The name of the other fireman who died from injuries is not so far ascertained.

The latest accounts give four killed or missing, and thirteen injured. Ibe names of the latter are:— Charles McKay, John Walsh, Patrick Ryan, .Alartin* Moore, F. Cornish, Laurence Anthony, Henry Sayers, Jack Key. William Ryan, George Stuart Easton, Ala mud Dayang, Thomas Hoot'll* and William Rentwell.

The force of the. explosion was shown by a piece of iron being hurled seventy yards, and a man on the opposite bank of the river being struck by a piece of flying steel, and slightly injured.

The disaster was one of the worst experienced on the Australian waterfront. It has paralysed the fire lighting force. The crew of the vessel comprised 17 Europeans, 13 Malays, and .‘>7 Lascars.

When die fire was discovered, tlie Alaster ordered all the native crew out, and told the Fifth Engineer to open the valves and flood the bold, and cut off all steam. The explosion, winch wrecked the ship, is believed to have been caused by coal gas.

DRAUGHTS CHAMPION. .MELBOURNE, April 29

In the final of the Australian draughts’ championship, 11. Egan (Victoria) defeated R. Holmes (Most Australia) alter a keen contest. Tlie first game in the final was a draw, but Egan won the second and third.

man to be extradited

SYDNEY, April 29,

John Alexander Fetles. arrested aboard the Mura inn. on April Bill, was charged with the theft of £O6 from the New Zealand Express Company, AVellingtou. lie was ordered by the Alagistratc to lie returned in custody to Wellington, where the original warrant was issued . GIRL’S SUICIDE. SYDNEY. April 29. Nora Linton, aged 22, the daughter of a well-known solicitor, committed suicide at her parent’s home by gas poisoning, connecting a large trunk to the gas by means of tubing, and then entering ‘the trunk, covering herself with a blanket, and closing the lid. A sad feature was that the father died shortlv afterwards from natural causes.

11 roil COURT APPLICATION

■ Received this day at 8 a.in.) SYDNEY, April 31

In the High Court of Australia, the Commonwealth Steamship Owneis Association applied for an injunction against Thomas- Fleming and Jaeofi Johnson (Secretary and Assistant Secretary respectively) of tlie Sydney Board of Seamen’s Union restraining them from directly or indirectly attempting to do anything in. the nature of a strike. Tlie application arose out of the present lndd-up ol certain vessels. Counsel for the Union stated that criminal proceedings were also pending, involving the same mailers dealt with by the aeplu-atnoi In: ~i. injunction, and asked the unit deal with this particular phase first. Tlie Chief Justice stated tlie Court had to give several other cases priority, and as 1 lie Court adjourned on Friday. Lie- application would probably heard at .Melbourne.

WILLIAMS EXECUTED

SYDNEY, April 29

Edward Williams, the Paddington murderer, was executed at Long Bay Gaol.