AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[ny TEr.MißAPjr—run i-uess association.] SYDNEY WOOL SALES. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY. Feh. Li. At the wool sales, under a. very slack demand and general dullness of competition, the irregularity of previous sales was accentuated and a further fall of live to ten per cent, recorded for all merinos. Poorly grown cross-breds wore also lower by 5 per (eat. Greasy merinos sold up to 35 : Jcl. £509 COMPENSATION. SYDNEY, Feb. PL The District Court has awarded Mrs Annie Whaley £SOO compensation from tln> Union Coy. for the loss of her husband. an engineer’s fitter oil the Tahiti, who was killed in Sydney through a bucket falling on him whilst lie was repairing the air pump aboard the vessel in December last. IHDES SALES. MELBOURNE, Feh. 13. At the hides sales irregular lights and mediums declined an eighth ot a penny. Stouts and heavies were unchanged. FREIGHTER ON FIRE. MANILLA. February 12. The Norwegian freighter. Tune, is on fire in the harbour, after a seventy mile run to port. There are no casualties.

AN INFANT MURDERED. SYDNEY, February 13. An unmarried woman Emily Hcnsworth. was arrested at Muswellbrook on a charge of murdering her three weeks old child, whose body was louud in a train she had just If 11; with a tigiit curd round its neck and the skull fractured. The woman was returning from Sydney where r.he recently gave birth to the child.

MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING. PERTH, February A mysterious affair occurred at Albany. A coloured man named Riley, driving in the street, was shot dead Ivy bullet through the hack. A man named Alorgan told the )olice that ho left a loaded, cocked rifle standing against a. fence. He heard the cart pass and then the sound ol a shot and he saw Riley, eighty yards away, dm; in the cart. He found the rifle on the ground, the barrel pointing between two pickets, and an empty shell in the chamber. PRODUCE PRICES. M EI.BOURNK. Ueb. LL Oafs, milling—2s 9d. 2s lOd ; iced—2s (id 2s Bd. Barley. English—(is Del. 7s; lair—os 2d. Os 5d • Cape—ss Bd. Potatoes £5, £5 15s; onions £B. C 7 17s. THE MOKRAKI SAH S. WITH NON-UNIONIST CREW. TROUBLE AT PAY OFFICE. MELBOURNE. Fob. 13.

With a non-unionist crew the Alooraki sailed for New Zealand (probably Dunedin) at 11.00 last night. The new crew were taken aboard in a Some trouble occurred when they reached the vessel. The cooks refused to work with the non-unionists and wee put ashore. The Stewards, however, wane satisfied to remain aboard m accordance with the order made bv the Court. Tho old crew assembled in the Mercantile Marine Office's to be paid off, but a liil.eb occurred because all the hands refused to sign off unless tucy were paid until the time ol tlieir return to New Zealand, which was not agreed to. Then it was contended Hat the Court clerk had made an entry m the log after Wednesday’s proceedings, but the point was taken that this was not legal because on 1 v the ship's officers are permitted to make entries m the log. This contention also had no cheat, but before finality was reached the Marine Offices were closed and payment postponed till to-day.

HUSH FIRES. PERTH, Feb. If:. Rush (ires advancing on a 1 rout ol twenty miles caused considerable damage in the south-west. George Dennis who was overtaken by the" llames was found burned to death oil his larm at Katanniiig. There were many narrow escapes. Tli” lire was one of the worst in the history of the'district. Farms in its track were burned out and buildings and many miles of, fencing were destroyed. , Manv sliceo and cattle were burned. The lire is now burning six to eight miles along the west side of the n owav line.