AUSTRALIAN NEWS
RE-OPENING OF TIMBER MILLS
(Australian Press Association).
MELBOURNE, Juno 3
Arrangements aro complete for the re-opening of the metropolitan timber mills. About fifteen hundred men have volunteered for work under tne Lukin award. Trouble is not expected, but every precaution is being taken to preserve order. Arrangements .are being made for picketing the mills by tne unionists.
MINE TRAGEDY. THREE MEN DEAD. SYDNEY, June 3. Overcome by gas in the Jumbunna coal mine, three Italian miners died before they ’ could he rescued. The manager of the mine previously warned the men the air was foul, hut they disregarded his advice. The manager returned to the mine and saw two miners partially gassed, being attacked by a third, who had apparently lost his senses. The manager feeling the effects himself went for assistance.
The bodies were later brought to the surface.
N.Z. JOCKEY INJURED. BRISBANE, June 4. George Young, a New Zealand jockey, was injured when he fell during the winning of tlie Welter Handicap at Eagle Farm races. Young was severely bruised on the chest and it is feared a broken rib penetrated one lung.
PILOT BRAIN
BRISBANE, June 4. Pilot Brain, in the Atlanta, arrived from Mascot. 'His average speed was a hundred miles per hour.
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