AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1928, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. BUSH FIRES. MELOURNE, Jan. 12. Bush fires are raging in Bendigo and Ballarat Districts. In the latter, the township of Scarsdale is threatened with extinction and women and children have been removed to safety. SE AMEN ’S TR OU BLE. SYDNEY, Jan. 11. When the owners called for a crew t > man the motorship Mundalla, the men refused to offer, and the vessel was tied up. The men’s decision to boycott the Mundalla was reached because cargo from the steamer Canberra had been transhipped to her. BRISBANE, Jan. 11. A mass meeting of seamen decided to recommend to the Federal Executive of the Union that if the trouble continued. and the owners persisted in their present' policy of placing vessels out of commission, the dispute should be extended to all vessels, and that this proposal he reeomended to the general members oi the Union. FERRY" COY’S. CLAIM. SYDNEY. Jan. 11. Sydney Ferries Limited have issued a writ against the Union Steamship Company Ltd., claiming £30.000 in regard to the destruction of the Greyclin'e. killed by cannibals. SYDNEY, Jan. 11. A wireless from Salamoa, states that it is reported hv natives that a white man was killed and eaten by natives on the Waria River.