AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1928, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE. CANBERRA, Feb. 21. Air Bruce approved of the suggestion that an industrial pence conference should be made a permanent bodyanil be called the Commonwealth Economic Conference. He said if the coming Conference thought fit, it •should meet regularly in future. He suggested how the standing of the Conference should bo constituted and what it should do. He would do his best to help. ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS. SYDNEY, Feb. 21. During last year 13,06-1 street accidents were reported in the police metropolis. 2p3 persons were killed and 5654 injured; 157 deaths and 4443 injuries were caused by motor vehicles and in addition 1643 accidents occurred outside the Metropolitan traffic district resulting in 112 deaths and injuries to 1117 persons. A MURDER. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) -MELBOURNE, Feb. 22. Two sisters of Fitzpatrick (cabled on 18th) a resident of South Canterbury, have communicated with the police, offering to pay the funeral expenses ol the deceaseil watchman, at the Perfection Knitting Mills, Carlton, lie apparently discovered a burglar on the premises, who. finding himself trapped, shot Fitzgerald through the heart before he had time to defend himself and then escaped. Some departing employees who heard a cry, remembering burglars had entered the place a week before, went ban; and found Fitzgerald dead. So far there are no arrests.