AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[liV TELEGRAPH—I'EU ritESS ASSOCIATION.] -TiOFRAKI NOT SAILING. (Received this dav at P) ,2-j a.m.) .MELBOURNE, Fohruarv (!. The I’nion Steamship company endeavoured to get the Moeraki away by adding six non-unionists to her complement. They were sent to the ship’s side in a launch, under police escort, but when the crew aboard learned the men were non-unionists they refused to prepare the vessel for sea. LABOUR DECISION. BRISBANE, Fohruarv 9.

A hulks meeting: ol' unemployed members of tin* Australian Workers Union carried a motion pledging those present to refuse to support any Labour candidate at any future election by making their votes informal. owing to the distress caused by the Labour Government refusing to lind the men employment. A NKW JCDGK. SVDXKV. Keb. !). .Mr H. 11. Long-lnnos has been appointed a p ll isnf* judge to lill the vacancy on the Supreme Court Bench. JIOHK WO.VKX THAN AIKX. SYDXKY. bob. A report from the Commonwealth Statistician on the conjugal position of the people of Australia shows that the excess of marriageable women is the greatest in Tasmania, when* it is 37.8 per cent, ami is least in Queensland, where it is b.l per cent. In Western Australia it is !).(>. in .New South Wales II).7. South Australia till. I and in Yictoria 34.(h The preponderance of marriageable females is greater in the melropidit.au areas than in the Stall's, as a whole, ranging from 11.3 in Sydney to e).B in Perth. The average in the six capital cities is .VJ.H ncr cent. A ‘ PKI l hi AI! ACCIDK.VT. ' Ph'ITTI I. Uebruary 0. As the result of a lire tit a butcher's shop in Coolgardie. at which many people gathered, an explosion occurred and a heavy iron cylinder, measuring six feet bv one foot, used as a water cooler, sfmt through the spectators. A man named Griffin was struck on the thigh and upper portion ol the leg which was badly fractured. Airs Wheeler bad both legs torn off and she died later. Her husband who ( was standing next to her also bad a leg torn o!f and died later. A man named l’urtly bad both legs cut oif just below the knee and be has since died. Three men were maimed and several others stunned. The cylinder was hurled one hundred and fifty yards.