AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

>T7B7EALIAN AND N.».. OABL* ASSOCIATION. A WIRELESS. SYDNEY. Aug. 22. Wireless amateur Nolan has sigain communicated for an hour with the -MacMillan Expedition at. Etali. lie transmitted a message from the Governor-! ieiicrn 1. RAILWAY TROUBLE. B IMS BANE. Aug. 22. Another cause of the trouble at Ipswich railway workshops, cabled on the 21st. is the refusal of the Railway Commissioner to withdraw letters in which he informed the Union that in future when stop work meetings are held, the men would not be allowed to resume work for tho remainder of the day. A resolution was cirried that stop-work meet ing.-jj be held every day until the men received a satisfactory reply to tlio request for the withdrawal of letters. Premier Gillies recently informed a deputation of railway employees who asked for the restoration of I lie live per cent.. wage reduction, which came into effect in 1922. that the policy of the Government was coneilinf ion and arbitration. He expressed the opinion that any attempt to fix' wages by Parliament would be disastrous. Cabinet affiirmed the principle. REMARK A RLE FATALITY. SYDNEY. August 21. A remarkable fatality occurred at Darlingliurst. A cleaner, Herbert Wilkinson, entered flic refrigerating Chamber of a butcher's shop and subsequently the door was found to be. closed. The police chopped a way in but we re driven back by the strong ammonia fumes. They succeeded, with, difficulty in dragging Wilkinson out, dead, ft is a mystery liow the door became closed. The fumes were released. ARREST FOR MURDER. MELBOURNE, August 24. In a quarrel which was alleged to have occurred in the week-eml in a house at Monzios Creek, between two brothers, one of them Charles Alexander Clarke was stabliod in tho throat and bled to death. The other, William Vincent Clarke, was arrested on a charge of murder. A TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE. August 24. As the result of a shooting ease at Toraug. William Farrell was arrested on a- charge of murdering Wm. Patrick Sperling. Sperling iu bis dying depositions, stated lie and Farrell were iu a house at Garvoe. He was standing liesitle the door when be, heard sonicnie say “Get a gun’’. On hearing that be made, off and was fired at. After lie was shot lie railed out, but no-body came to him. He and Farrell bad always been friendly. They had lnini lights for two or three years, but only drunken rows. RAILWAY STRIKE. BRISBANE, August 23. Owing to the engines hoi i > lorkc**' up in Ipswich railway works on account of tlio strike, many trains bail to be cancelled. Inquiries indicate a general strike is anticipated in the near future. Owing to the dismissal of a ganger i section of the line between A\ ooloowin and Xorlhgate lias been declared black by the maintenance men. At a meeting of the lot-omul ive seclion of the Australian Railway Union, t was decided to instruct the members ~f the section not to haul trains over this section, as from mid-night tonight.