AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION PROTEST AGAINST SUNDAY TENNIS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, .March 5.

The churches and religious bodies generally are up in arms against the council's proposal for a continuance of Sunday tennis. Protests have been received from all quarters of the city. A solicitor lias advised the City Council to secure counsel’s opinion on the legality of the decision as lie thought there vas (onsiderahle doubt as to "bother it was a breach of the Police Offences Act.

THEATRE CURTAIN A BLAZE. SYDNEY, .March 5. During a J erformance before a crowded bouse in the Palace Theatre the drop curtain caught fire. The audience was asked not to get panicky and it remained quiet until the blaze was extinguished "lien the performance was continued. LYING BANK CLERKS. .MELBOURNE. March L Trevor Thomson Swanhill, -t bank clerk confessed to the police that his story of assault by two men was a fabrication. CHINESE SAIUGGI.ERS. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) SYDNEY. Alarch 5. The ‘‘Daily Telegraph” says a Chinese Society is operating in Sydney for the purpose of smuggling Chinese into Australia. Also that a reward of .9101) sterling is offered to any man killing a Chinese, who divulges information to the Customs’ authorities. This informaton is allegedly contained in a Chinese poster whcli has come into the hands of the police. The posters contain instructions for finding gambling dens and places where opium may he smoked. The discoveries are the outcome of hostilities between two rival Chinese factions.

TIM HER AITI.LS DESTROYED. .MELBOURNE, Alarch 5. The timber mills and joining work: of J. C. Taylor and Sous, Geelong were destroyed by lire, the damage being estimated at twelve thousand step