AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1927, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(By Telegraph- -Per Press Association. AWL 11, TR \GET)Y. AIELBOURNE, Aue. o-,. A soldier settler. Francis Wilkinson. aged 38. and his wife and child, were found in their home at Stanhope*, with the wife and child’s heads battered with a hammer, and Wilkinson’s throat cut with a razor. The. man and child wore dead, and tin* wife was taken to the hospital in a critical condition. II i- believed that an attempt was made to strangle .Mrs Wilkinson before- sin* was battered with a hummer, as a cord was tightly drawn around her neck. Wilkinson suffered from nerves, and if i- stated that his wife recently told fhe neighbours that ho had threatened to “end all this” presently. QUEENSLAND PARLTAAI ENT. BRISBANE. Aug. 24. The (,)ueenslancT State Parliament was opened to-day. The Governor, in his speech.'said that- the finances ior the past, year disclosed a deficit of .0343.1C0, hut this has mainly been due to the effect on the railway revenue receipts of the continued drought. WORKERS’ MASS MEETING. SYDNEY, Aug. 25. To-dav there was a mass meeting of members of the Australian Workers’ Union, and the other Unions affected by the* dismissal of the employees on lite City Railway. If was decided that if the City Railway lock-out is not immediately settled on terms favourable to the men, all the Australian Workers’ Union members and other unionists, comprising the members of the Engine Drivers’. Firemen’s Carpenters’. Builders’. Labourers' and Bricklayers’ Unions employed o„ fhe railway and on private works, -hall cease work to-morrow. The employees likely to he affected letal six thousand. \lter holding a further meeting this morning, nil the employees of the Bun lie rung Power House resumed work at micl-dav. CHILD ENDOWMENT. SYDNEY, Aug. 25. At the annual’ meeting of the Nev.South AVales Chamber of Alamifaeturors. the President, referring to _ the burden of recent New South AA ales legislation, said that Premier Lang’s promise to extend the child endowment scheme would cost im additional twenty millions sterling to the people of the State. Such an attempt would either result in the closing of factories or their removal to other parts where saner views prevailed.