AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

EXPRESS CARS DERAILED. SYDNEY, October 0.

An alarming mishap, luckily unattended with serious < iiiisequences, occurred to the Albiirv-Sydney express. Owing to a rail sinking, as the result of heavy rains, a lender and three sleeping ears left the rails and the sleepers were thrown out of their bunks. Other passengers were severely bumped. The line was considerably damaged bel'oie the engine was brought to a standstill. No one was injured. LABOUR DEMONSTRATION. SYDNEY. October o. The weather was line for the ’Eight Hours Day Holiday. Sixty-nine unions and also a body of inarching Federal and State Labour .Members participated in tiie annual procession, which was through crowded strteLs. There were many elfectivc tableaux, depicting various crafts, and urging tin* support of Australian industry. A leading feature" of the display was one which demonstrated that “the wav to make bosses squeak is to organise!” The sports on the .Slow Ground wen* largoIv attended.

BOGUS NOTES SENSATION, fßeceived this day at 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oet. 7

Besides legitimate track thrills, detectives provided an extra, one at Rsiidwick yesterday. For some weeks they have been on the look out ini' the negotiators of bogus twenty sterling notes. Just alter the first race, two men at the main stand bar were raising liquors for wluii tbe.v had paid when a p.osse of detectives rushed them. In a rough and tumble amid an excited :ru.vd, one -dropped a lense bundle i I notes. Tig* detectives secured most- of them, of a face value of £5.01)0 sterling, but the crowd got away with a lew. Subsequently the police visited a number of bouses and made five other arrests, including two women. In one house t'*ey found a complete note printing and engiaving plant and a large quantity of chemicals and paper. The miles were a genii imitation of the real thing.

DICK TURPIN RIDE. SYDNEY. October li

Another incident was when Blue, one cf the favourites in the steeples 10-t his tilh'f. a youthful bystander inounI:"i him hot I lie liol-.o loci, i barge and did a toot'd at the tad of Hi" lie l '!, tie- S ...ith 11-io'.!";■ "I Id." ;•'!"> I- 'll. ,\l the finish, the sped it' "s roared and cheered, and scattered a shower ol silver over the hero of the Turpin ride. The impromptu jockey with bulging pockets, led in Blue. AFSTRALIAN WHEAT CROP. SYDNEY, Oqtioher 7. A bumper wheat harvest is anticipated this year and the ultimate result now depends upon the crops maturing without serious inroads by dismise than upon more ruin. The reports of the Agricultural Department's field elfin ers are so lur reassuring, though scattered instances of rust and smut aie reported, wliieh continue and which damn weather would tend to increase. EMPLOYMENT OF 811 TPBl'l I.DFRS. MELROI'RNE. October 7. In Ibe House of Representatives Mr Brace, replying to a question, stated the Shipping Board had advised him that ill view of the early completion of the steamer Ferndala at Cockatoo Dock, it would b" i-oiiiPelled to di-'-nense with the services of approximately 670 men. Mr Til nee .stated that there must of necessity he fluctuations in the number of men employed on .ship eonsf ruction and repair work when flic volume of work was a variable quantity. Tt was hoped that- it would be ycsishle. in the near future, to absorb must of the employees now being discharged. STATE ENTERPRISES. (Received this day at 11.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 7. During flic past year, various state enterprises have shown cotisideiiiblc improvement over the previous years. The brickworks made a trading profit of .027,500 sterling, the largest til a like undertaking. This was achieved after selling a pound per thousand less than private enterprises. Trading profit from metal ouarrie.s was 0331,00 sterling. Mouier pipe and reinfiir- . ,-etl concrete works made a profit of 011.000. The loss on Newcastle dnekvards nnvmnted to Lo. 190. DOUGLAS MAWSON WOMEN.

NO NEWS RECEIVED. (Receivedvthis day at 9.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE. Oet. 7. Mr Bruce announced in the Federal Parliament House that he had reeeiveii a message from the Administrator of the Northern Territory, stating the schooner John Alee had returned to Darwin, having no news m leg.ud the search for the Douglas .Mawsoil women. The lighthouse steamer Keogh is due at Darwin on Thursday and instructions have been issued that slu proceed immediately to Arenotm B. > to get in touch with the Huddeisln expedition and report progless wireless to Darwin. A manager on a Pell, station, states that a blackfellow recently eatlnl at the station, and sai.l he had seen two white women in the Black’s camp he manner induced lnm tu taK** ( 1 to the women and bring Kick a rank, and his return is now anxiously awaited. _______