AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

lUBTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ABBOOIATION. A TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, July 21 According to reports from Waggn, a dispute arose betwen two men, John Sheldon and John Lang, rabbiters, at a camp at Wantnbatagcrv. It i.s alleged Sheldon attacked Lang, inflicting extensive injuries, afterwards tying Lang to a bed. Sheldon, according to Lang’s story then left for the nearest township. He litter relumed but meantime Lang had .succeeded in freeing himself and had hidden behind a door. Presently Sheldon opened the door and advanced towards the bed with an axe in his hands. When lie raised the axe, Lang sprang upon him and a desperate struggle ensued in which Lang secured the axe, and it is alleged, inflicted injuries on Sheldon from which the latter died. Lang has been arrested.

A STRIKE. SYDNEY, July 21

A strike occurred at the metal manufacturers works at Port Kemble. The trouble originated among girls employed there.

THEFTS OK CARS. SYDNEY, Julv 21

No fewer than eleven vehicles valued at nearly live thousand sterling, were stolen here during the week and only three have been recovered. In one case the owner saw the car being taken, but the thieves 'kept him at bay. presenting a revolver at bis bead. A police patrol ebasod another car miles through the suburbs, but till' thieves escaped.

SPA 11 LINGER TREATMENT. BRISBANE. J til v 21

The Premier stated Spahlinger had voluntarily nlfcrcd to supply the Queensland Government with a quantity of his tuberculosis serum for demonstration purposes conditional on its being administered by a public health officer. The idler lias been accepted.

PILFERING CHARGES. BRISBANE, .1 illv 21

Justice Lukin commenting in tlio Supreme Court on the prevalence ol cargo pilfering, said in one year in the Coiumouwonltli L'ISli,1)1)0 sterling worth of goods had been stolen, ol which Queensland’s share was Col),000. These thefts necessitated higher selling prices for goods sold to the public. He wondered why the honest majority nf workers did not exercise some sort of reign of terror over thieves. lie sentenced one man to three years’ gaol for stealing goods and another to one year’s e.-ml for receiving.

WAGES INCREASED. BRISBANE. July '2l. At the hearing of the sheep industry ease before the Arbitration Court, the Chief Justice McCauley made it clear that wages iiiusL fluctuate according to the prosperity, or otherwise of an industry. The Court raised the wages of adult employees on sheep stations by IDs weekly and others accordingly. Shearers receive os per hundred extra. The Court refused an increase in the cattle industry wages.

OBITUARY. SYDNEY. July 21. Obituary.—Thomas Craig Gillie.' ivil cgineer. son of the late Justice illies of Auckland.