AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia it N.Z. Cable Association.] SPEEDWAY FATALITY. (Received this dav at 8 a.m.i SYDXEJY. Dec. 31. 3he first fatality on the Mnroubr.a speedway occurred when a powerful racing car was being tested. It was driven by .Mr l.ee J. Salmon. Chairman of Directors of Salmon’s Motors. Lid., accompanied by Albert Vaughan, a. director in the same coinminy. The car got out of coni ml while travelling at eighty miles per hour, and it hurtled through the air for 25 feet, turned a somersault and crashed over the embankment cm to a sido track. Salmon was killed instantly. Vaughan was frightfully injured and died shortly afterwards. SLA TIGHTER MAN MURDERED. | SYDNEY. Dee. 30. . While a slaughterman, William Harris. was working at a slaughter yard at Comlohnlin, bo was a'cestod by a stranger who asked for food. Harris was unable to comply and the stranger, who was carrying a rifle, shot him and took to the bush. Harris was found later in a dying condition. Mounted troopers arc son rolling for the murderer.

CARTAGE RATES INCREASED. SYDNEY. Dec. 31. As a result of the introduction of the forty-four hour week the Master Carriers’ Association lias decided to increase cartage rates ten per cent. X.S.W. POLITICS. SYDN FIT. Dec. 31. Cabinet has decided the Arbitration Act Amendment Bill, providing for preference to unionists in all industries. and* which was recently drastically amended by the Legislative Council. shall be returned to that Chamber in its original form, and passed with the additional voles of the new appointees.

Cabinet decided to dissolve the Municipal and Shire Councils throughout the State towards the end of 11)26 and bold elections on adult franchise. The principle of a Bill to introduce adult lTniichi.se was rejected bv the Legislative Council sonic time ago. but will be reintroduced during the present session. It is possible tb.it the 1917 loyalists ill the employ of the railway and tramway services will not only suffer regression in seniority, but will also suffer by having their wages reduced in continuity with the positions they hold as a result of the regrading when the Government issues the minute demanding the regression of the loyalists. Tlie .Premier said the Government desired the loyalists should receive the same rate of wages as if they had not been regressed, but it appears that the railway commissioners cannot meet this added expenditure without legal sanction. When the Bill was before the Council recently Mr Willis sought to amend the Bill providing the Government should be responsible for the added expenditure, but it was ruled out on the ground that it was a financial clause. The Premier refused to comment on the position.

ANOTHER TUBERCULOSIS CURE SYDNEY, December 31.

According to the newspaper “ Daily Guardian," a young Sydney medico. Dr Smallpage, has discovered a new serum for tuberculosis. It quotes MacCnllum, Professor of Pathology at .Melbourne University, as wilting to Dr Smallpage:—“ Drs Drever and Spnhlinger will fade from the picture if you can maintain your thesis.”

The serum obtained from, the spleen can he prepared cheaply and the paper declares it is estimated that for €7o 10,000 people can he treated with the new cure. AUSTRALIAN FI EFT CRUTSE. MELBOURNE. Dec. 31. The provisional cruise of the Australian Fleet includes n visit to Dunedin by the cruiser Sydney on 20th February. The cruisers Adelaide and Delihi will visit, Lyttelton on the 26th February. All the cruisers will reach Wellington on the second of March and .Auckland on the Bth March, leaving on the twen-ty-fourth for Sydney.