AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[IIY TELEGRAPH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHINESE SOCCER TOUR. SYDNEY, .May 17. It is stated that endeavours are being made to arrange several games locally with the Chinese soccer team on route for New Zealand. RATES REDUCED. SPDXEY, May 17. A reduction of three-halfpence is announced in the water and sewerage rate. The Board’s surplus for the year is i 1127,000, against Co!),000 estimated. COLLEGE APPOINTMENT.

SYDNEY, May 17. Doctor Edward Anderson, the principal of St Andrew’s College, has been appointed to the Chair of Hebrew at the college in succession to Doctor A«droiv Harper, resigned.

ORVIETO REFLOATED. BRISBANE. .May 17. 'Phe Orvieto was refloated on last night’s tide. After reloading her jettisoned cargo she resumes her voyage to-day. gaol upheaval. SYDNEY. May IS. Following on a conflict between the chief warder and a refractory prisoner at Bathurst gaol, the prisoners gntJici'od together, and sent an ultimatum to the Governor of tho Gaol, demanding the warder’s suspension. AA'lion this was ret used, the prisoners, many of whom are serving life sentences, assumed a belligerent attitude, hooting and hissing the warders. Alter much effort, oilier was restored, the Governor meantime sending to .Sydney for reinforcements of nardcis anil police. An inquiry was then held by tho Magistrate concerning the trouble, and while this was in progress, prisoners fo the number of one himdicd refused to go to the iclls. A serious situation was developing when the reinforcements from Sydney, who had been kept in the background, rallied to the assistance of the warders.

Bedlam then ensued, the convicts making a determined attack on the police, who replied, using their hnvonets and their batons. They soon dispersed the mutineers, after several of I lie latter had been wounded.

During the outbreak, the noise was deafening, and the howls and curses of the prisoners note heard half a mile a wav.

THE DINGO PEST. .MELBOURNE. .May 17. The Australian Woolgrnivcrs’ Council has submitted a statement, to Mi Bruce (Prime Minister) showing a dei'ii.e in the number of sheep .1 A I--tralia. owing fo Dingo ravages. It is pointed out that, where:'? the n!!iul>cr of sheep increased liv Sfi.fKN).99o between ISliO ami 185)1. they had decrease; I by 27.71 )!».()::• I between I SOI and 1023. The Council urged that th" f'ominoiiMealtli should make Mire-netting available as eheanly as pn-sibl". to help to combat rabbit and dingo ravages.

Si 1 (I’l’lNO DISPUTE. MELBOURNE. May IS. 'Pile ConiiMonMcaith Steamship Owners Association is applying to the \rhitration Court for a variation of the existing award bv making provision for the Seamen’s Union to be responsible for the observance of the mvaril by its branches and officers. The owners aie al-.o applying for the insertion of a danse providing that the Union dining

the term of an award, .shall neither order nor encourage, or direct any strike or job control.

I-'OOTDALI. MELEE. S', nXI'A • Map I•. At the iiiin lu-i'iii of a tcntl.all m.itm ■it Centennial Park yesterday. a general melee 0.-cuiTed. Real- and bellies and iron bars were I reelv used, before the disiurbn'ice was qucllid. One man waving a n vnlvrr was arrested. LONG BAY '.MI'RDKR. SYDNEY. May 18. A .sum of l'2(io as a reward ha ; been nfl’ered by the polite lor the apprehension nf the Long Ray murderer. Ho far, l la-re is no elm- to his identity. Til A.M STRIKE ENDS. MKI.COI'RXK. M-'.v IS. On Saturday the tramway employees accepted the Arbitration Court’s di-t iMOII. ami a lull service will be tesumed oil Monday. The direct loss to the Tramway Roard through the strike amounts In £22,000.

A RIG KIRK. (Received this dav nt H.2-> a.m ) Ml-'.I.BOCRNE. May ID The timber mill ol 1 ietnria Hardwood Milling Company at PowclHov.u, was gutted by lire. The damage is estinmted at ' IiOO.OOO sterling. The building which occupied hall an site was covered by insurance. WYRALLAII ENOI'IRY. .MELBOURNE, .May ID. As an outcome of tin- finding ol the court ol inquiry into ti.e Itiiuidoring ol ti„- Wyrnlinh, as « result of a collisnm with tin- Dilkcra. the masters of both vessels will appear before a tribunal on Tuesday lo answer various charge* o| neglect of duty.

PRINTING TRADE AND IS-lIOEB WEEK. (Received this day at JR a.m.) SYDNEY. May ID. At a joint meeting ol the Priming Industry Employees I’nioii. and the Amalgamated I’rinling Trades Employees' ITii-.iu. a policy o! posne resistance to the re-introduction ol the forty-eight hour week which was made possible by a variation "I the awards In the Conn under which memhi-rs ul the I'nious were working, "as decided upon. The question of appealing against the Court’s action is being considered. RATH TEST t!AOl. NORMAL-. SYDNEY. May ID. The Comptroller-General -of Prisons soys the position at the Rathur-t Gaol is now normal. stedy ok medicine declining. SYDNEY. May IS. This year there are only sixty-three students in the first year classes at the Medical School. Since the course has been extended to six years there has been a noticeable tailing nit in Hie uumlK-r of students presenting themselves for. matriculation in the faculty of medicine, and the general students’ roll of the I'liivorsity has also decreased l-v some hundreds in the past two or three years.

CLERGYMAN’S A LI. EG ED BRISBANE. May ID. Some months ago an Anglican clergyman in the Riverina district disappeared from his parish and a. warrant was issued for his arrest for the alleged theft of three hundred sterling and a motor car. By virtue of that warrant tlic police have arreste-’ ruin. George Leslie Wilson, who pas been residing nt South firifd>rnie.

TRAMWAYMEN’S LOSS OF AY AGES. MELBOURNE, May IS). The trnmwnymen lost £20,000 in wages during the strike. “HERALD” BEING SUED. MELBOURNE. Ala.v 15). A writ has been issued against the “Herald” on behalf of Shirley Douglas Falcke, Art dealer, claiming five thousand sterling damages for alleged lilrel.