WOOD CHOPPING RECORD.
(Received 10.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Charles Miley chopped a 12-inch log in 25 3-5 seconds, beating the world's record by two-fifths of a second. START OF A SIX-DAY GRIND. (Received 10.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The six days' cycle race started at one o'clock this morning in the cricket ground, and concludes .at ten o'clock on Saturday night. Eighteen teams of two members are competing. A. B. L. Smith and Phil O'Shea represent New Zealand. COUNTRY WORKERS' UNION. (Received 10.50 a-m.) SYDNEY, this day. Now that the ballot on the proposed amalgamation of the Australian Workers' Union, the largest organisation of labour in the Commonwealth, with a number of other country unions has been carried by a very substantial majority, a proposal is afoot to widen the scope to include not only any person engaged in pastoral work, but sugar growing, meat trade, road mending, and a number of others embracing all kinds of genera) labour. ST'COY BEATS POESY. SYDNEY, December 29. Herb. McCoy knocked out the French boxer, Jean Poesy, in the fifteenth round. Poesy claimed that the knockout blowwas a foul, but this was disallowed.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 311, 30 December 1912, Page 5
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