AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1925, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION SUPPORT FOR SEAMEN. SYDNEY. Tune 21 Tho Marine Transport Group. representing all the waterfront organisations, unanimously decided to stand solidly behind the seamen in the dispute over the conditions of the clause. FLAG UK PR EGAUTIONS. BRISBANE, July 25. Queensland has been declared by the Federal authorities to be plague infected, but it has not yet been determined whether the suspected cure is plague.

AMEX DM ENT DEFEATED. MELBOURNE. June 25. In the House of Represent avivos. Mr McNeill’s amendment was derailed hv 32 lo 21. ANOTHER BUILDING COLLAPSES. EMPLOYEES GET OUT SAFELY. SYDNEY. June 24. AnnMmr building collapsed in the heart of the city. but. fortunately there were no casualties. The building was a tliree-store.v brick --tincture. occupied by Hu- A. H. En'i-(-ori. Company, in Little Bmirke >i. Twenty persons were employed iheie. The first sign was when several - .lows fell off the framework: ihoii the building eominoTieed in sway and ad the occupants made a dash lor safety. Ten seconds later a side wall subsided on a, vacant allotment, which wax being excavated for a new building. The llcors one after another fell. Several of the large crowd of <nlookers were struck by flying bricks, and ilie workmen on the vacant land had narrow escapes, as they stopped to remove the horses when the vetoing was given. WOOL SALES RESUMPTION. SYDNEY, June 25. A joint meeting of the Australian Woolgrowers’ Council, and the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers, decided to resume the wool sales m Australia on 13th. July. when. 120.000 hales will he otfered. A similar number will lx? offered in August. AUSTRALIAN CRUISER’S MISSION. MELBOURNE, June 25. IT, is officially announced that tho Cruiser Brisbane it at Woihciwei. North China, and is ready to proceed immediately to Hong Kong if needed.

PRECAUTIONS IN SYDNEY

SYDNEY, Juno 25

In view of the suspected case of plague in Queensland a conference of the health authorities' and public bodies decided to immediately enforce precautionary measures, including a comprehensive rat- destruction campaign to protect the city from the possible invasion by the dread scourge. AN INLAND SEA. SYDNEY. June 25. The town of Forbes is surrounded by an inland sea, extending many miles. The floods in the coastal areas are subsiding. SHIPPING TROUBLE!STEAMERS TO BE LAID UP. SYDNEY, June 25. 'Pile Commonwealth Shipping Board has decided to lay up three of its steamers seeking crews, the Fordsdale. Ere, manga, and Dilga. and not- to try to engage further men for these vessels. There is a possibility now the all the ships of tho line will he tied up as soon as the articles expire. The dispute so far has rendered idle six vessels, the three above and the Howard Smith steamer “Time” in Sydney, the “Monaro” at Melbourne, and the lighthouse vessel Kvogle, at Fremantle.

While Hie Marine Transport Group at Sydney are standing behind the Seamen's Union, its decision cannot ho given effect to until endorsed by a meeting of the Federal Group of transport unions, which will lx? held in Svdnev on Monday next.