AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3662, 28 December 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

TECHNICAL COLLEGE DES. TROYED

MELBOURNE, December 27. The Brunswick Technical College was destroyed. The damage done was very heavy. , THE WHEAT COMMISSION Received 12 noon. SYDNEY, This Day. Mr Storey has announced that the Government has- decided to accept the return of the Wheat Commission from Justice Pring, who explained that he could not proceed with the enquiry owing to the continued ill. ness of Georgeson. THE AERIAL DERBY. , 1 MELBOURNE, This Day. The Aerial Derby at. Epsom was won by Lieut. Parer, with Lieut. Briggs second, and Captain Matthews third.

HEAT WAVE MELBOURNE, This Day. During the week end, the heat wave was responsible' for fourteen deaths in the City. 9 THE STEWARDS’ STRIKE SYDNEY, This Day. Notwithstanding the "recommendations of the Transport Workers’ Federation, it is understood the strike will not be declared off till after the New Year. A section of the Trades Hall officials involved in the strike intend asking Mr Hughes to appoint a special tribunal on the same lines as the c'oal tribunal to determine the issues. It is estimated that 20 thousand are directly unemployed throughout the Commonwealth as the result of the strike. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, This Day Mary Cathleen Firth, a New Zea. lander, aged twenty .five, was found dead at Bournville with her throat £ut.,- Her husband, who had a gash In his throat, alleged that his wife (attempted to murder him and then /committed suicide