AUSTRALIAN NEWS
CONSPIRACY CHARGE.
(Australian Press Association) BRISBANE, Feb. 26. After a second trial, lasting seven tlaysfi Leonard Hoy Moiitefiere, aged 36, an insurance manager, and Stanley Robert Monteliere, aged 29, a salesman, were convicted of conspiracy. Two others. George Arthur Baker, motor -engineer, and Lionel Vincent Slmw, "fire assessor, were acquitted. The four v. ere charged with conspiring lw.-: .1 ceu February and May, 1928. to obtain £2llO hy fraud from the Ocean Accident Guarantee 'Corporation. The prosecuting counsel stated a number of similar eases of bogus claims were involved. It was impossible to discover tbo. total defalcations, but during Leonard Montefjere’s managership the company losses wore estimated at nearly £-15,000.
UNEMPLOYED CLASH. SYDNEY, February 26. A second and more menacing disturbance occurred to-night in the vicinity of Trades Hall. Permission having been refused to inarch through the city, unemployed led by communists clashed with the. police who- drew batons, scattering the majority. A few y-oimiuinists, however, defied the police, one of whom was severely injured on the head, either, with a knuckleduster or a piece of blue metal. Another was kicked, altogether nine a-i----rests wore made including two women communists.
TRADES UNION CONGRESS
MELBOURNE, Feb. 27. 'phi* Trade Union Congress established a cornr, it.tec- to overcome the split between the miners and eng-r.e drivers and consider a proposed scheme to bring about a resumption in mines at present stopped. Ihe committee will analyse an appeal on behalf of ten thousand miners, vdm .Mr Hibson on .Tuesday said could never hope to obtain wore 111 the mines again.
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