AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3622, 8 November 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

TRAM SMASH. SYDNEY, Nov. 7. Trams over-ran each other on the Coogeo line. Forty people were injured, the majority slightly. * Received I p.m. 4 SYDNEY, This Day. Tram Conductor Thomas Gallagher died as the result of injuries received in the Coogee smash.

THE WHEAT PROBLEM. SYDNEY, This Day. -Mr. Storey has returned from, the •Premier’s Conference. He stated that farmers will receive nine shillings per bushel for wheat for local consumption all the year round. This would not involve an increase in the price of bread. »' DAVIS GUP TEAM. SYDNEY, This Day. fhe Tennis Association has received a cable from America agreeing to Tildee, Johnston, Washburn and Hardy playing in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide during their journey to New Zealand.

PILFERERS ARRESTED. SYDNEY, This Day. During last week the police made one hundred arrests, recovering property of a total value of £3OOO. BOLSHEVIST DEMONSTRATION. BRISBANE, This Day. A Bolshevist demonstration in the Domain to celebrate the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, passed off without incident, though fiery outbursts at times threatened to bring trouble from soldiers. One of the latter knocked off an Irishman’s hat during the singing of the National Anthem, but the presence of a large body of police ensured order generally. BIG RAILWAY SMASH. PERTH. This Day. A train of fifty-four trucks, laden with sleepers, weighing’ six hundred tons, was derailed when going down a steep grade at Wokalup, twentyseven miles from Bunbury. Eleven persons were killed.