AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

STOWAWAYS. NEWCASTLE. June 3

Arrived: Eclmnga from Wellington. Eight stowaways were discovered shortly after leaving Wellington. Each was fmod £7 10s.

TASMAN!A ELCETTONS. HOBART, June 4

The latest Tasmanian election returns show the Nationalists have sixteen and Labour fourteen seats. The final figures cannot alter the result.

MINERS DECISION. SYDNEY. June 4

A mass meeting of all of the coal industry employees on the Northern Fields held to-day. passed a resolution pledging themselves to stand solidly together, and fight as one body against any attempted reduction in tlieir wages or any alteration in their conditions which colliery proprietois nuiv seek to enforce.

CROSSING SMASH

(Reclined this dnv at 111.15 a.tn.'

MELBOURNE, June 5.

At a level crossing near Frankston, a train crashed into a car containing Ernes tAdain, 45. and iii.s wife 43. who were returning from a holiday. Mrs Adam was hurled into the cattle pit. Burning petrol set her clothes afire, and her otherwise broken body was incinerated. She is dead and her husband who was terribly injured is dying. The car was smashed to smithereens. ■

CHURCH BURGLED. ADELAIDE, June 5

Thieves tried to blow a safe at the Sacristy of St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, but were unsuccessful Valuable vestments used to deaden the sound, were ruined and the orphanage collection box was stolen.

DESTROYER TO HELP. SYDNEY, June 5

The destroyer Huon will police the waters between Suva and Australia, to render assistance to the Pacific fliers if required.

COOKS DISPUTE. SYDNEY, June o

Inter-union negotiations for the settlement of the strike were interrupted yesterday owing to the holiday hut are being resumed to-da>. Strong representations are being made l, v the Trades Union Council to the Cooks Union to allow them to negotiate. with the owners, as then toiow unionist are feeling the pinch of enforced idleness. The owners Patience is nearly exhausted and th«> intend if the strike is not settled next week to make a call for volunteers, for whom they will seek Federal protection. BRISBANE. June o. IT Snell a member of the Brisbane branch of' the Cooks Union commenting on the strike, said Mr Tu - hope had the confluence of cook the past, but since he changed attitude from arbitration 0 11 action, he had lost the hacking of many members. He added that the Brisbane branch favoured the tion of the Roster system. It 1 been turned down twice by the Sjdnev branch despite which headquarters retained it and were now making it a vital issue-