AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 212, 27 January 1913, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A FATAL EXPLOSION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Brisbane, January 25. George Pashen was killed, and eighteen men injured, in a blasting accident at Balmoral, where clearing works are in progress for the Australian Meat Export Company.

NORTH LYELL DISASTER. } Hobart, January 25. j The bodies of three more victims in I the North Lyell mining disaster have been discovered in the 500 feet level.

| MISHAP TO AN OLD MAN. i Sydney, January 25. George White, an elderly man, was standing on a ladder when he had his arm torn off at the elbow by machinery in the foundry at Oranae. Tie came I down and walked out across the road to J a doctor. . • -.•

BOOM IN PICTURE SHARES. Sydney, January 25. There has been extraordinary activity jOn the Stock Exchange during the past few days in the scrip of the Greater J. D. Williams' Amusements Company, 100.000 shares having changed 'hands. The company's capital subscribed amounts to £IBO,OOO. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a former official of this company on a charge of forging an Order for the sale of 40,000 shares.

MINERS GROWING IMPATIENT. Sydney. January 25. The northern miners arc growing impatient of the delay in effecting a settlement at the Burwood mine, whore iho wheelers struck. The mine-owners have intimated that they will reply in due course to the latest communication from the miners.