AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1926, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

j Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] AUSTRALIAN REFERENDA. SYDNEY, July <• Senator Barnes, who was stated in a cable yesterday to be in favour of Mr Bruce’s referenda has signed the Australian Workers’ Union manifesto, and has announced his intention of opposing tlie. referenda proposals. Claiming that it represents the majority of the unions using the Federal Arbitration Court, the Commonwealth Council of Federated Unions has issued a manifesto supporting the referenda. KALGOORLIE INQUEST. - WOMAN’S REVELATION. PERTH, July 7. Giving evidence at the inquest oil Detectives Pitman and Walsh, at ICalgoorlie, Mrs Clarke, the wife of one of tho accused, said that on the 27th. of April both Coulter and'Treffene used her husband’s car, hut her. husband was at home. When the two departed for the bush Inter, her husband told her that Treffenc and Coulter told him that Pitman and Walsh bad come upon them, and that they had shot the detectives. Treffono later came back to tlie hotel. Later on, Clarke said lie was going to the bush with Coulter that night, and lie asked witness to give him a carving knife. She asked him not. to go, but be replied that lie was going as company for Coulter. She then gave him a carving knife.

Mrs Clarke added that she and her husband and Treffenc were partners in gold trafficking, and she had seen Treffene buying gold from men at the mines.