AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ttflllUUAN INI) N.*.. OAttr.* ASSOCIATION

METROPOLITAN .MINE DISASTER. (Received this day at. 10.2 b a.in.) SYDNEY. July 28. Roth victims of Hie Metropolitan Colliery explosion were married with me child each. Roth are recent arrivals from the Old Country, il is the most tragic mining disaster that has M-etirrcd on the South ('.nisi lor over twenty years.

Immediately al'P-r the explosion the iimlor-niHiiii/'er mid tlio assistant-nmn-a <rur dostoik loti tlio pil with tlvir hoaiL •wntEoil in wot clot lies, ami roeoverod the hollies. A horse was also Killed. An exactly similar disaster occurred in the same colliery twenty-nine y;‘ai> aszo. when throe men and a Imiso "* 1 killed. Fortunately electric safety lamps were used in the mine, otherwise the catastrophe would have been appalling.

THE I.W.W. AGAIN. SYDNEY. July 28

The Industrial Workers of ill - World ~,, Sunday held their lirM 111 I the Domain since l!ll.. wla-n it wahired an illegal organisation. Ihe ( .-|K-akeis de.-lared lln-ir objective was to nrnne-'au- strife, strikes. i"b control. u. i. 11 ell i t'.v ,1a- wav. Tin- pololook lbe name.- n! the speakers. MATTER FOR TASMANIA. MELBOURNE. July 28. In answer to Mr Wal-h’s oiler. Mr Bnn i- has replied that the matter has been deferred to tin:- Commonwealth Shipping Board. Mr l.ime ' ■' considered that if Tasmanian produce j* held up. that is a matter lor the Tasmania n {.overnment. HOBART. July 2S. The Premier stated the ttovernmeiit will immediately charier a steamer to earrv the fruit, whieb is held up. owing 'to the strike to tlm mainland Ihe fruit 14mwers had idso arrange* l,) dos*.»:;ich steamers with fruit lor >y J - Y S W. RUGBY TEAM. SYDNEY. July 2 s . Meairber (half-back) and Mulligan (five-eight or three-quarter) have been selected t.o join the Rugby Union team to tour New Zealand. Fox ami Windeyer are unavatlalile. and have been replaced by Judd am! Ford. Thorn will captain the team. WILFN THE PUBLIC FUELS IHE PINCH. SYDNEY. July 28. The President of the Primary Producers' Union has offered the services of twelve thousand men lor maintainthe continuity of the shopping services am! the preventing «t stoppages in industry. The President state.} Ins Union had no desire to J‘" u 1 , ,l with either the seamen or the sli p owners in a dispute, hut as thousands of members of the union wete d.pe - out on maintenance ot shipping communications for the necessary commodities of life and the conveyance ot their products to the markets, they were not going to stand idly by and see those districts affected strangled while the dispute was being settled,