AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1926, Page 3

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STATE POLITICS. SYDNEY, September 14. Mr Loughlin (Deputy-Premier .and Minister of Lands in the State Cabinet) has resigned bis portfolio in order to oppose Mr Lang for the Premiership at to-day’s prosessionnl Labour caucus. PAPUAN KIXAXCES. MELBOURNE. September 14. A report oil Papuan finances shows imports and exports last financial year totalled a million sterling compared with £130,000 in 1206, "' hen the Com ~ monwealth took control of the territory trade.

THE SYDNEY FATALITY. FURTHER PARTICULARS. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) SYDNEY. September 14. News of the railway accident is coming through slowly. Latest reports confirm that 24 were killed and between fifty and sixty injured. The runaway trucks were loaded with wool and stone and travelled about nine hundred yards. They bad attained a s]ieod of about sixty miles pei hour when they struck the engine of the mail train, which was bound from A force to Sydney. The engine of the train was badly knocked about. The driver and fireman bad to he dug out from the coal. T>’e trucks jumped over the engine and first carriage in some inexplicable way without damaging the carriage. The following two carriages were telescoped and smashed about to splinters. The names of the dead so far identified are: John Dunbar. Mrs Ackland (both of Scone). Howard Rich, (of Warn tali'). S. Brush, (of Morce);