AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N'.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION MOTOR TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, .March 3. A Banning, the second victim in the .Motordrome smash, has succumbed. | A third, Hodges, is in a serious coudiItion. ALABAMA FIREMEN SENTENCED. SYDNEY, March I. Three firemen off the Marama were sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour for being absent from the ship without leave. Warrants have been issued lor the arrest of the other absentees. TENNIS OX SUNDAY. SYDNEY. .March I. The City Council has decided to permit tennis to lie played in ail 'he parks in the city on Sunday l 'ot tine months as an experiment. The Reform aldermen strongly i’otested. The vote was purely a party one. THE AOUAXUI AT SYDNEY. SY DXEY , .March 3. The Anrangi arrived at 12.15 p.m. to-day from Wellington. She was accompanied up the harbour by a guard of honour of all descriptions of small craft, and met at the wharf by a huge crowd of friends of the passengers and others interested, her arrival providing a fitting end to a thrilling voyage. 'WEATHER I'M). SYDNEY, March •!. It was raining heavily all night long and prospects for the cricket are not good. A strong wind is blowing. RUBBER WORKS’ STRIKE. SYDNEY, -March 4. The strike at the Perdrin Rubber Cov’s factory has been settled, the management deciding to reinstate i moulders whose dismissal was the cause of the trouble, although no work is offering in their usual occupation, but they will be found outside duties. Work "ill he resumed on Monday. DIES .FROM WOUNDS/ BRISBANE, March I. The deatii has occurred of John Lawson, the second victim of the .stabbing affray at Mack unde on the 20th. February. [While three men were walking through a. cutting between Halifax and Maeknadc at night, they were set upon by a man with a knife who had evidently waited there. John Lawson received two severe stabs in the hack and is not expected to recover. William Harris received a deep stab in the chest and died shortly after. The condition of the third man is at present unknown. Both injured men are en-gine-drivers. The attack is said to he due to jealousy. David Ballingliall (another engine driver) gave himself up , the police at Halifax soon after the oreurrence.'J

N.S.W. 1,1 YE STOCK. SYDNEY. March 4. The livestock in N.S.W . at December 31st last was as follows:—Horses JUS, 14)4, a decrease of 14,343; cattle 2,(525,(588, a decrease of 32,754 ; sheep 37,387.81)5, an increase of 4.01H,()!)2. A REIGN OK TERROR. .MELBOURNE. March 4. Following a number of large factory robberies in the metropolitan! area during the past, few weeks the police are finding extreme difficulty in obtaining prosecuting evidence, although a large quantity of the stolen property lias been seized by the police. Marked icluctancc has been encountered on the part of tlie sufferers to identity it and this is stated to be the result of a warning to the factory owners that it they assist the police in enquiries their lives will lie forfeited.

The police say that, at least two known gangs of thieves have established a reign of terror.