AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAEI.E ASSOCIATION

Q UEEXS'LA X D TH AG EDY. BRISBANE, April 2G

Mrs Richard Lcnthal was found in her home at Maryborough with hei throat cut with a razor. She died at the hospital. A man has been detained by the police, hut im details are available. WALSH ISLAND STRIKE. SYDNEY. April 25. The ileeisinn of a section of the. T rade Unions to dei hire Walsh Islam f “lihi<k” has had little effect upon tlujj progress of work at the dockyards." Yesterday the .Minister of Works, Mr Ball, received official notification that ilmre were more men at work than on the previous day. Air Bail staled that no increase in wages would he giro,i in the strikers. He declared that the men had legal remedy, and they would have tu abide by the’law. A mass meeting of members of the t'liious at the doikyards will he held on .Monday, when the position of the strikers will he fully explained. PAPER CEASES PUBLICATION. MELBOURNE. April 21. The Sun Newspaper Company, of Melbourne, has decide;! to reuse the publication of the ‘‘Evening Sun, and has sold tho Sun Pictorial to the pronriotors of the Melbourne "Herald.” MELBOURNE. April 20. Two hundred journalists, compositors and other newspaper employees will Ira idle as the result, el' the closing down of tlie “Evening Sun.” It is St,-Ill'll that Ihe loss incurred by the proprietors sime the paper was first published amounts to between £120.o*oo and £150,0!::!. DUNEDIN EXI1! iUTIOX. CHRISTCHURCH. A] ril 25. Tie Industrial Ac,sedation if Canterbury, through its .Executive Committee*. has altered its attitude towards the Dunedin Exhibition. At a meeting of the Committee held on Friday night, it was resolved to do everything possible to assist in making the New Zealand Se;.ouila.ry Lulu tries Section *.f the Exhibition a su cess. TRAM 'PASSENGER INJURED. AUCKLAND. April 25. \ young man. 11. Maishall, inslaineil a fractured skull through being truck l y a tramway cent repoh*. when Inditing out from the plat form of .*■ traimar, in Kymonds Street, on Friday. TRAMS COLLIDE.

AUCKLAND. April 27,

In u collision bet ween two tram cars lion ii I in i In.* same direct ion in Symund.s Street. .Mi-s Edith Cochrane, aged .six-ty-five. a passenger in the act. of alighting from the trout car wrs thrown on the read and sustained fractured ribs. The platform cl' the overtaking ear was completely smashed. The motorman, Author, is suffering from abrasions ol tbe face aed wrist. Ihe nther iar was practically undamaged.

FISHING TARTY CAPSIZE. AUCKLAND. Apiil 27

A fishing party were ea] .sized in Knngiofoto channel in a sudden gust of wind. Seven occupant'; were thrown jnt> the water. One was asleep in the cabin and just escaped before the ym hf

sank. All were good swimmers -except, cue and he was Kupcovict! by tfie stern ■T the dinghy, all that remained awash till the party were picked up by a luiin-Ti ten minutes later. RADIO AFFAIRS. WELLINGTON. Anril 27. t vl yap.s from light amateur radio I ,div i nnierri'il here on lice nut-lion i f altering the constituti“n of th- Radio Institute of N"w /Value I <( bri-t----,*1i.11-c!0. with. view V affiliation in older t i form a giveming body for amateur-'. After a nine hours’ session. un agreement could le- come to. oniuions being almost t-i mb di\ idl'd. It was decided to ad; the Post mas H-r Gcneral to have a listeners in represenlalive ni H Broadcast Duai'd. ~|o -led I y a p - till hallo.! of el! In emholders : also I ■ urge him not to allow tin* existing wave lengths to he altered. YOUNG MAN'S DEATH. 'i'I.MARU, April 27. A yonyi.g man, \\ illiam Leun, of Geraldine, died this illuming as the result of a collision between push hikes last evening at Pleasant Point.

DANGEROUS TUX NED. WELLINGTON. April 27

Tli ere lias been much discussion recently over the tunnel being pierced through the lull near Karori, lor tiuuiwuv purposes. ('racks had appcaie I and a doubt as to its snloty was expressed. '(. itv Council officers minimised them aiid generally contended there was no cause for alarm. Mr R. Semple in view of his experience in tunnel work, was asked to report and states Gnat three 1-1 feet sections are baillv cracked and unsafe. There is a possibility, and a.imost a prubahdity thnf this portion will mouii* da.\ collapse.

Al’I’EA I. COURT. WELLINGTON. Apn! 2<

The Court of Appeal is engage" today in hearing an appeal from Gie vision of Mr Justice RecJ m l"<' Wright and Nuswarlhy case. appellants, who. were phuulilD m the Court below, are Florence Jenny Myra Morgan, wife of William Arthur Morgan of Ecaudate, Mount Somers, iurmcr, and her infant children, appearing by their guardian, Ferry Norman Quarlcnmvin. Cliristclnii» *>• eomitaiit. ihe respondents who wi r. defendants in the Court below are Douglas George Wright of Mim.eiuiere, Winslow, farmer; Harriet -l.'- a Wright, of Ashburton, widow, am Monoi.ral.le William Noswo.t by of M ■sonotainii) Station. Ashhiuton. 'fanner. Counsel for appellants are Wilding K.C.. Donnelly and Bnisxmglon; Counsel for Respondent. Ml' • Kimllav K.C.. Win. Noswurthy ami Evans.' Cuiimel for other respondents, I'phnin and Gresson. The case relates to two properties in the estate ol Edward George Wright who died ... I 1);!' 1 , known as Surry ,id!s and \mdermere. The Court below found the fact of sales and prices paid was well known to all beneficiaries, and no (mention was ever raised until recent v when litigation between Mrs Norman and D. G. Wright, caused had feeling. The Court held the right ot purchase was assignable and that D. Wright was legally emi t led t» 1,,l > both estates, hut not the sloes on either The present appeal is against the whole of Die judgment, except the portion in favour of the hemmenuies. \t the Apical Court, m the case Morgan verses Wright, the hearing was adjourned till June sitting to allow consideration of certain points arising out of Justice Heed's judgment rel.it-

~«• p> the taking of at counts. BOARDINGHOUSE BURNT. WATROA, April 2.

Another disastrous hre occurred shortly before midnight last night when a large thirty-eight roomeil boardinghouse owned by Wairoa - ea Cov was totallly destroyed. I here we're fiftv men hoarders, employees at the freezing works, most of whom saved their belongings, but the lessee '(Mi* Reese) lost practically everything, including a large sum of money paid by men during the week-end. The building. liftings and I'urnitnure were insured lor £3lio.