AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1929, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

WRECKED YACHT. (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, June 3. The yacht Erica was wrecked dear Newcastle, during a storm on Friday night. James Carpenter was washed ashore alter a terrible struggle, and found later nearly dead, and taken to the hospital. His companion, Jeffrey Jacob, is missing. RACIAL FRICTION. BRISBANE, Juno 3. The Police Journal draws attention to rumours of threatened racial troubles on the Northern sugar fields, ami urges increased police strength. The Australian Workers’ Union agreement'with the mills limiting the number of foreigners employed is the genesis of the unrest. MOSQUITO PARASITE. SYDNEY, June 3. Cl M. Pemberton, American scientist, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea, where he was. engaged in research Ib'r the' past year. He discovered parasites which destroy mosquitoes. ,A’ number, of •'.the parasites are being taken to Honolulu, where . the progeny will lie/ released. >

. .MINERS’. STRIKE. SYDNEY, June 3. • A strike of. two Southern coal mines has rendered 700 men idle. At fecar''borough the stoppage was duo to the refusal of the minors’ request to reinstate a man who had walked off the job. At Dajvto, the trouble arose out of the miners’ refusal to work an extra night shift. The result of these strikers will be serious lor-the Northern colliery men, for whom the miners at work are levied 12J per cent. ART UNION PRIZE. H. E. HOLLAND’S SON WINS £3,000 , SYDNEY, June 4. ' : The first’prize of £3,000 in the New South Wales Fire Brigades Art Union i'or charities has been won by Cedric Holland, of Punchbowl, son of the Labour, Leader in the New Zealand Parliament. ;•