AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1925, Page 3

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ANOTHER FEDERAL LOAN. SYDNEY. March 26. A C:..mmnnwoallh loan of five million four hundred thousand pounds has been fully subscribed. Ihe lists have been closed. ACQUITTED. MELBOURNE, March 26. P,liter who was on trial for the murder cf Mrs Dawson was acquitted. SYDNEY’S BIG BRIDGE. SYDNEY. March 26. In the presence ol a large nid (i:stinguished gathering. the Governor laii? the foundation stone of the North Shore Bridge to-dav . CANCELLATION APPLIED FOR. (Received this dav at 19.25 a.to.) BRISBANE. .March 27. The Oversea Shipping Federal mn has filed an application with the State Arbitration Court fer cancellation of the registration of the Watersidors Union, and Or ■an clbition <d the awa'd applicable in members of that union. SUGAR WORKERS. BRISBANE, March 27. The sugar workers of Queensland „ro becoming restive owing to the large influx cf Italians to the sugar districts.

Six hundred arrived in the small town uf Ingham this week. They are all going into the sugar cane industry as cutters. Already there are scores ol unemployed sugar workers in Ingham district,' nearly £lO9 sterling being paid out in unemployed doles last week. Owners are being asked to give preference to Australian workers JAVANESE VALUES. MEHROI'RNK. March 27. •p| K . Ooveriinicnt Gazette annoiintes that if the value of the yen deprecates to make more than twelve to the pound sterling, a special duty will ho imposed m goods imported from Japan. A STEAMER TO 8A IfADELAIDE. March 27. 4 lie steamer City of Singapore, on which a disastrous explosion occurred last year, lias been restored to seag,dug. trim. She will leave I’ort Adelaide shortly in charge of two Dutch lugs, for no unuanid European port.

A TERRIBLE FATE. BRISBANE. March 27. While two men. Walter Bates and James Lainbe. were engaged in digging u hole near a. smelter plant at. the Mount Morgan Copper Works the plant broke away, burying both ol them to the waist in molten ore. Rates succumbed to his injuries, and Umbo s condition is critical.

Ai VSTERIOFS POISONING.. MELBOURNE, March 2,. The report of the government analvist on the orchard poisoning eases reveals that the stomach of Chalmers contained arsoniotis oxide, which was a so found in samples of water used in the —a ea! was found in brick scraps, an t mortar from the internal section o lh well The water and bricks weit dtiß ed with poi,o„. The bricks were obtained from the eyan.de wo i ks. at B ,ii-c> three years ago, and othei buyti. who are using them for storing toad oi wells have been warned „ . r;)n March I'Jth a- cable said.— A mysterious ease of supposed pmsonint |,a, occurred at, Wnilera. Mis U} yell V her two children and bet ma Miss Smith, were holidaying at an ox'chard when they became very di a. chon to the hospital. A mai Conroe Chalmers, picked grains fro" iho same orchard and subsequent died. Miss Smith and the child]ei are in a serious condition.l unique sin a hon. PERTH. March 2,.

t unique development occurred m Fremantle waterside e.reles when the men who. until the pie.-ent ■ I 1 » rush provided them with casual work classed themselve, as Hm of Kreemantlo. wont on - ■ further wharf work until such tune ns ■ the Fremantle Lumpers V n.ou admitted them to membership. The ’^employed I r .i..; m that as the lumpers in tin. .tact » periods join the ranks of the ed and pick up any casual o offerin'', they, the unemployed, he al--I)wed similar privileges in connection C takmg the aVerage demand the union *" was strong enough to cope wit wharf work R SYDNEY. March 26. )- Mr Ball Minister of Works laid t'« 1- ( „n,hS •< «* •*“ Bridge, not the Governor.