AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1925, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

IUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BOMB OUTRAGE. BRISBANE. Jan. 1. A dastardly bomb outrage was per-]H-trnted in Chinatown at Innisfail, and caused a great sensation. Police inquiries show that a bomb had been "placed in a tin, with fuse at-tached.-and then lighted and hurled at, a building some distance from tlie,J| street and readied by a narrow lane. * A port ion of the side ol the liuildjgn was blown out by the force of tho explosion, while inside it resembled a shambles. The place is owned by a Greek, if ho was sleeping not far away. As soon as the bomb exploded he jumped out and saw a man. through the broken window. He fired shots from "his revolver, hut the man disapoured. . It is little less than a miracle that no lives were lost as practically every building in Chinatown was shaken.

Two hotels, some distance away, were baillv rattled and one rooked violently so great was the concussion of the explosion. 'v This portion of Chinatown lias been the scene of several attempted outrages

lately, hut up to the present only lire lias been resorted to. The new development in the shape of bombs, has caused great consternation among the foreign population. N.S.W. REVENUE. * SYDNEY, Jan. 3. ' N.S.W. revenue for the half year ended 31st. Dec. was £17,782,000.' an'* increase of £919,000. The expenditure was £19.137,000 an increase of £1,129,000 compared with the last correspond-

ing period. SHIPPING HOLD UP. SYDNEY, Jan. 3. The Ulimaroa failed to get away. The T owners state she may sail at 11 to-mor-row morning of a crow is forthcoming. At the time fixed for sailing today one of the crew was missing and the 'Olliers refused to sail without him. The Shipping Companies claim that the methods employed indicate a conspiracy among the strikers and that the issue will have to he fought out in the Courts. INKbUKNCE OF SOVIET. , HOBART, January 1. Mr Marks, M.P., who has recently returned from a trip to Europe, describing tlie influence of the Russian . Soviet movement upon Australian industrial affairs, said he had been given in Beilin by Russian observers more intimate facts about the Melbourne tramway and police strikes than he himself knew, although he had been in Victoria at the time. He had also been informed while discussing the position about ten weeks ago that there would probably he a big shipping strike in the Commonwealth. He was assured bv these observers that there were hut few strikes of any importance in Australia that did not have their birth in Moscow Soviet Schools.