NEWS IN BRIEF.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 15, 25 June 1920, Page 9

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The ' Government are erecting 55 wor--ker's homes in Christchurch. The Auckland tramwaymen's union are to be prosecuted for the recent strike. Col. Hargest, the R.S.A. candidate for the recent Land Board vacancy was elected by a large majority. At Londonderry Sinn Feiners intercepted unionist shipyard workers and mercilessly beat them. The affray ended up with ball cartridges and fixed bayonets. A party of armed men at Londonderry seized and bound a young soldier who was on holiday, and visiting his father. He was shot dead, placed in a hearse and driven to his father's house. Sinn Feiners at Glenharan ambushed a party of soldiers, wounding three and taking prisoner several others. They will be held as hostages until Sinn Feiners recently captured are released. The president of the National Dairy Association statecl that the associated banks had decided, that in the case of dairy factories requiring finance tney rnust put , up 25 per cent. before being granted ad- ' vances. i i | Paddy is still going strong in Ireland, : and there has been fierce fighting in Londonderry. ! The ceremonial part of the opening of Parliament will take place this afternoon (Friday). The Prices Investigation Committee, recently set up under the Board of Trade, commenced a sitting in Invercargill on Wednesday last — So far an alarm clock has not been diseovered.