AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.! SPEEDWAY TRAGEDY. SYD’NMiY, JiiTy 15. When travelling oiglitV miles an bom in a race on the Maraubra Speedway, for the Maroubra gold helmet, Sid Dutton, one of the best known motor cyclists, crashed into a safety fence, while attempting to pass two other competitors. The accident was caused hv his handle-bar touching the fence. Dutton’s machine, somcsaulting. hit the corner post with terrific force. Dutton sustained a fractured skull and died at the hospital two hours later. Dutton’s wife witnessed flic accident.

COURSING. MELBOURNE. July 19. The Victorian Waterloo Cup was won by the Carter Brothers’ dog To*minus. WATERLOO MEETING. BRISBANE. July 19. 'the Australian Waterloo Cun meeting commenced at Warwick. There were a large number of nominations. The only New Zealand representatives Boston Lass and Our Choice, wor-o beaten in the first round and first ties respectively. EIRE tN TIMBER YARDS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 19. A fire in the Union Rox Company’s Timber Yards, Aniiandalc. raged for six hours before it was controlled. The damage was extensive. The adjoining premises of Trapp and Coy. timber merchants, also were seriously damaged.

IN MEMORIAM. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) SYDNEY. July 19. During the week-end, the members of the All Black team, accompanied hv the officials of the New South Wales Rugby Union, visited the Church of England .section of Rook wood cemetery, where a memorial tablet was unveiled on the grave of R. J. McGregor, a former New Zealand representative. Tlie ceremony was performed by Messrs Porter (captain) and Lomas representing the Thames Club. Many tributes were paid to the memory of the deceased, and several wreaths laid on the grave.

LABOUR TROUBLES. BRISBANE, July 19

■A. hold-up of shipping at Bowen, caused by the wa.tersiders refusing to work except under a rotary scheme of employment, lias resulted in the fnkorinan mill ceasing cane crushing, and nil shifts paid off. So far only c resixth of the estimated crops has been crushed. Over two hundred farms arcidle, and some thousands of tons standing over. The cane is deteriorating.