AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1921, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Melbourne, May 16.

Harold Parsons, motor cyclist, holder of several world’s records, collided with a horse at Epping on Saturday, and was thrown on the roadway and killed.

SATURDAY WHOLE HOLIDAY.

Sydney, May 16. The Master Builders’ Association has decided to fight the employees on, the question of Saturday work, informing the latter that they need not appear on Monday if absent on Saturday. The Carpenters’ Union has re-affirmed the decision not to work on Saturday.

THE DOMAIN DEMONSTRATION.

Sydney, May 16. In anticipation of lively proceedings, 50,000 people attended the Domain demonstration. Socialist speakers marched in, attended by a big bodyguard who passed round the platform, and these were backed by a strong body of police. A notable feature was that there was not a Single red flag visible. The crowd was largely composed of loyalists, who heckled the speakers, but beyond that the demonstration passed oil peacefully. The loyalists had let off steam at meetings of their own where Union Jacks were much in evidence. At night they demonstrated outside buildings where the Socialists were holding a meeting, but the police prevented the invasion of the premises.