AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia iV N.Z. Cable Association.] \VATETtSIDERS REF US AL. SYDNEY, July 20. When wharf labourers were called on to load the coastal steamers Murrawah and Kooringa. which are manned by volunteer labour, they refused to do so. The vessels were so loaded by the office staff of the owners. Holymnn and sons, and other labour that the firm could engage.

KNITTING MILLS DESTROYED. (Received this day at 8 a.in.) MELBOURNE, July JO. Fire gutted the Lincoln Knitting Mills at Coburg, the damage being estimated at four hundred thousand, lering idle eight, hundred cm plovees.

A LIGHTNING STRIKE. SYDNEY. July Jl

A lightning strike occurred at Dritntin.vne works of l’eidritin Rubber Company. when thirty-two engine drivers

anil firemen ceased work and the night shift refused to go one. Some weeks ago the representatives e.f the Engine Drivers and Firemen's Assn, waited on the management and requested an average increase of 7 s weekly. 'I Imy were asked to put their claim in ’writing which they did. As no reply was re: erred the men decided to cease work. About eleven hundred employees are affected.

A BIG IMRE 1.088. MELBOURNE, July Jl. More than half the promises ot Lincoln knitting and spinning nulls, at Coburg, which cover three and a half acres were completely destroyed by the fire cabled last night. The cause of the outbreak- i- a mystery. The foreman bad just completed bis final round, -hoi-tly after eight o'clock and had locked up. when flames leapt from a far corner of the building. The foreman declared everything there was in order wheat he passed a few minutes earlier. The fire advanc'd so rapidly that the firemen who were summoned from all the metropolitan stations, were practically powerless and confined their efforts to stopping the flames front spreading to the administrative block. MI'TOL EXE. July 21 The estimates of the damage by the knitting mills fire, range .from one hundred thousand to live thousand. VANDALISM. MELBOURNE. July Jl. During the night, the volunteer crew of the steamer Avarua was awakened by voices on the wliarl ami it was found the moorings of the vessel had been slipped and site was drifting into mid-stream. The crew succeeded in getting i In- lines to the wharf again and making leer fast.

THEFT OF G.aS. •SYDNEY July 21

At I’arramatta police court, a man named Julius Caesar was lined ten pounds sterling for stealing twenty feet of gas valued a.t a penny. There was no gasometer in the house, but. till! pipes were connected by a piece ot tubing. UNIVERSITY A ITOINTM ENT. SYDNEY. July Jl. E. M. (Mitchell K.C-. .has 'been elioseti as successor to Rarff. late Warden and Registrar 'of Sydney University.