AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1929, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

NEWCASTLE FiRE. GUTS LARGE TIMBER MILLS. (A uetral ian Press Association) NEWCASTLE, Oct. 26. Damage riming into many thousands of pounds was done by a fire which gutted the timber mills t>f Brackenbridge Limited. Within a few minutes of the outbreak, the whole yard was a raging inferno. The firemen effected a remarkable save when the .fire seemed likely to 4 sweep the whole ■block. The man who gave the alarm was badly burned. N.S.W. BASIC WAGE. * GOVERNMENT MEMBERS SCARED V : ■ , - ■■'. V-. SYDNEY, Oct. 26. It is considered certain in political circles (that the New South Wales basic wage reduction will not be allowed to take effect. : Nationalist Party members have condemned the reduction, and they declare that for tiie Government to allow such cut to be made would be to invite its defeat in the House. BYE-ELECTION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) BRISBANE, October 28. As a result of the bye-election it. is practically certain that Maryborough electorate will return its first anti-Labour member to Queensland Assembly for fifteen years. With a few postal votes outstanding the position is:— ‘(Blackley (Country Party, Nat.) 2709 Copley (Labour) 261^ STEAMER AFIRE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) ADELAIDE, October 28. ’ The steamer Anglo-Australian with a full cargo of coal from Hull, berthed at Osborne. It is reported that five days before the arrival smoke was issuing from the hatch which was battened and water had been played into the hold ever since. FASCISTS MEETING. • ENDS IN RIOT. (Received this day at 8 a.m.! MELBOURNE, October 28. Ivnivesj bottles and sticks were used in a battle outside a hall when an attempt was made to. break up a meeting of Italian Fascists. About a hundred and fifty blackshirts assembled to celebrate the anniversary of the rise of Mussolirti. Anti-Fas-cists of various nationalities stormed the hall and wild scenes followed in which four were badly injured.