SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP. SYDNEY GOVERNMENT HOUSE. THE COST OF IT. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 49, 26 February 1913, Page 5

SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP.

SYDNEY GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

THE COST OF IT.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

(Received 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The mineral output of New South Wales for the past year 1912 reached the record value of £11,041,435.

MELBOURNE, this day. Finney and Blunt, of Victoria, have won the two preliminary heats of the 220 yards' breast stroke swimming championship of Australia.

SYDNEY, this day. In the Government House case counsel for the Government claimed that the Governor as an Imperial officer -was aware of what the Ministers had done in resuming the site, yet he did not disapprove. It was conceivable that if the acts of his Ministers had infringed Imperial rights he would have dismissed them. The Governor was responsible to the King, therefore the matter was outside the jurisdiction of the Court. j-

SYDNEY, February 25. The Lord Mayor, in a financial minnte, points out that the increases of wages payable to municipal employees as a result of the Wages Board award represent an increased rate of ]*d in the £.

MELBOURNE, February 25. A serious accident occurred at Yam Junction to-day. An engine and 10 trucks belonging to the Powell Wood Process Company were mounting an incline when two tracks broke away. One of the trucks contained 16 of the company's employees. Six of the men jumped out before the runaway vehicles had gathered momentum. The others were carried at a mad pace down the incline, when the trucks overturned. Michael Curtain, one of the occupants of the truck, was killed, Francis Flynn was seriously injured, while the remaining eight were all slightly injured. MELBOURNE, this day. Francis Flynn has since succumbed to his injuries.