AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 September 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) EXTREMISTS FEARS. ( Rcc lived this day at 10.15 n.m.) BRISBANE, Sept. 9. There have been signs oi a serious split in the Labour Thirty since the ox Iren.. > industrialists of the party wen. i reed by tin. Premier through hi : motion for an adjournment, to deHaro themselves on the floor of tlie House. The fact that the Government has a strong majority of its own in sympathy with il. him alarmed the ex-

treme industrialist who are controlling the fight for the South Johnstone railway strikers. The Trades and Labour Council rejected the proposal that it should discipline MWonnark and his colleagues and assume control of the political movement. The ceei etai" <, the Queensland Central Exeniive says the exceptive arc not calling a. special meeting to consider the railwayne-ir, demand f.r expulsion of tlie Premier, cabled last night. At a .meeting of the Queensland branch of tlie executive of the federated Clerks Union, it. was decided to instruct all the members to sign on for re-einploymer. t when called upon.

A ROUGH TRIP. 'M ELIK) UPNK, Sep!. 9. With only a fraei ion of her origin; 1 deck carg intact, end the crew weary after forty days continuous work , r t the pumps, the American barqi'entine Anne Cornyn arrived at Port PhiJlij . The ship Eft Tac.nm on ,19th .May with nearly two million up feet cf timber. Fair weather was encountered till off the coast < f New Caledonia, when iii a gale the ship became unmanageable 'and would not answer tb** helm Tlie maned? , of lln deck cargo, amounting to a hundred thousand feet was jettisoned and then it was found that the benpientina

was leaking badly. Th? pas engine to work the pumps broke down, and the crow had to Irani! tlie pump:; till the arrival in port. SHOOTING. SYDNEY. Sept. 9. 'I he home and home miniature rifle match between Wellington and Sydney arranged by tlie Mia.uiature Rille Chibs Union of Sydney, resulted in a win for Wellington, the score- being Wellington 2297. Sydney 2293.