AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1929, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

BISHOP ’ S STRICTURES-

(Autotralian Press Association)

(Received this' day at 9.25 u.m.) .SYDNEY, August 19.

In an address at Saint John’s Church,i Birchgrove, Doctor Grottey (Bishop of Bathurst) made an attack upon ‘‘certain minorities who are keeping the people apart and are destroying fellowship in order that political programmes might -not bp thwarted.” He described it as the work of the Devil. ‘‘lt is po.use praying,” he said.' “It is time that professing Christians got out and did something.” The Bishop accused the wealthy classes of engaging in a pleasure chase and ignoring their re, sponsibility in social service. • They must get snobbery and social hate out of the church and out of the people.

A ’QUAKE,

PERTH, August 19. ,

An earth tremor lasting two minutes was felt at Broome on Saturday. Houses shook and windows rattled. No damage is reported. The. seismograph at Perth recorded a fairly severe earthquake which probably occurred in the oepan upd off the north-west coast about eleven hundred miles from Perth. T£> STOP PICKETING. SYDNEY, .August -19. , Premier Bavin stated that Cabinet was determined that mass picketing in. connection with a strike or any other industrial dispute, should he suppressed and men going about, their lawful occupations should he , protected from assaults. It is understood that if the present law is found inadequate to deal with the situation, amending legislation will be introduced next session.

SERIOUS FIRE,

SYDNEY, August 19

, Damage estimated at twenty thousand sterling was caused by a fire ijv Louden’s boot factory at ltedfern. Firemen effected a great save as tlie fire bad a strong hold -when they arrived. The origin ,is a mystery. SNAKES UP TREES. TO DODGE AUSTRALIAN FLOOD. SYDNEY, August 19. Recent rains and the backing of the water by the Hume weir, near Albury, is causing the , submergence of the iviitta River flats. The-'stock there are being removed, and road traffic is blocked. Hundreds of tiger snakes are to he- seen ’climbing to the tops of the fences and upon the tree limbs above the water. . . *• j

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