AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

VESSEL OVERDUE.

(Australian Press Association)

(Received thiß day at 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 25.

Fears are increasing concerning the safety of the Finnish four masted barquentine, Modart, now 121 days out from Lundsvall (Sweden) to Melbourne. She has not been sighted for 102 days and is a month overdue. The vessel passed Elsinore, Denmark, on 14th October, but since lias vanished. Her course was down the African (‘oast, round Cape of Good Hope info the Southern Ocean.

KILLED IN MINE

BRISBANE, Jan. 25

S. Stephen, thirty, was killed and two other men injured in Aberdure Colliery, near Ipswich, when a fall of earth entombed, four men. The others were released by rescue parties, one almost immediately, but the other two were entombed for three hours. The fall occurred at the 200 feet level. The rescuers were unaifle to find Stephen, several more falls hampering operations. His crushed body was located nine hours later. One of the rescued men was buried up to the neck. ABOLITION' OF STATE PARLIAMENTS. SIDNEY, Jan. 95. Resolutions advocating the abolition of State Parliaments and the transfer of major powers to the Commonwealth were carried at the Country Provincial Conference of the Australian Labour party at Tannvorth., . Mr 'Lang (Leader of the Opposition) sisted that the Federal Government must give effect to the full platform of e party, including the abolition of the Senate. SPIRIT STOVE TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, January 24. Mrs Perry, wlieh atetmpting to refuel a methylated spirit stove, while it was alight, when an explosion occurred and set fire to her clothes. Her husband and daughter attempted to subdue the flames, but all three died of the burns they sustained. The family 1 ivecl at Nerbein .near Mildura. ORSOVA REFLOATED. BRISBANE, January 24. The liner Orsova has ‘been refloated undamaged.