AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association. NIGHT BAKING. SYDNEY. Sept. A. Ibe Labour Caucus approved of a Draft Bill to prohibit night, baking, and the delivery of fresh bread. The hours for btiking will be between seven in the morning and six at night. Employees engaged in the baking of pastry will be allowed to start tin hour earlier than the operative bakers. The reason for prohibiting tile delivery of tresit bread is stated to be mainly to prevent- foreign .small bakeries which do not employ labour and to enable the bread carters to make deliveries within a reasonable hour. F.R.ROR OF JEDGMEXT. AIKI.BOFRXE, Sept. A. The Court of .Marine Enquiry announced. in the collision ninth occurred between the steamers Donah and tooma. that there had been an error ot judgment on the part of the master ■ t t aeh vessel. WOOL SALES. ADELAIDE. Sept. A. At die Wool sales lim- and lambs' wool were on a par with last sales, with rates in seller,' favour, while low-grade and oddments were firm at la(e rates. Coarse heavy and inferior wool were weaker in buyers’ favour. (,>F KENS LAND STRIKE SETTLED. BRISBANE. Sept. A. The railway services fully resumed running yesterday. WRESTLING. .MELBOURNE. Sept. A. I lie wrestling contest between Carasick :intl O’C’onnol! rots u I tod in a draw. THE ILL-FATED KARAMU. CREW ARRIYES AT HOBART.

(Received this day at 8 a.in.) HOBART, September A. The crew of the ill-fated Kararnu : r i-d here aboard the Katina.

Captain Huntley, who commanded ili ■ Kararnu. paid a tribute to •' c |imk and wonderful endurance oj the crew and also of the seatnensliip of Captain Murray, of the Katina. Considerable dillictllty was experienced in getting the crew ol tin* K.n amu on to the Katina and at t• 11 >.•.: it appeared as if there would lie less ol life. On account of the heavy seas it was impossible for the Kalina's boat to get close up to the Karnmu and tor a considerable time the men drilled about on rafts. The men who pulled to the shore from the Kararnu were rescued alter being located by means ol smoke signals. They were lowed to the Katina. All the Mien sttd'ered severelv from the cold. Bit ESS DELEGATES. SYDXF.A". Sept. A, The Press delegates engagements yesterday were a visit to Turougu Bark, a harbour excursion given by the Institute of Journalists, and an evening at .home given by the chairman of the Australian section ol the Empire Press Union. ATTEMPT TO ESI APE. MELBOURNE. September A. The authorities at Pent ridge Gaol nipped in the hud an attempt to t unlit -1 a wav out. Some days ago a prisoner. an ellteiciil miner, was missed t loin his place ill the workshops, which disclosed that ill" man was working a tunnel Iroui inside of a b"*ker in the work' hraiu!,. The earth from the tunnel was taken ~ul l• i a bucket and covered with rubbish and so the vigils:,,, ni the warder- was evaded. Appa rent \ pH s'Ui.'f . "ho supposedly number oni\ two , , three. r*mu*‘eted with the plot, had no knowledge of (b,e underground layout, as within a few feet, the tuiim l would have readied a concrete foundation impossible tor 11-.eiii to penetrate.