CONSCRIPTION IN AUSTRALIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2887, 27 September 1916, Page 6

CONSCRIPTION IN AUSTRALIA

DECISION OF AUSTRALIAN WORKERS' UNION FRACAS AT BROKEN HILL By Telcsraph-I'reEs Aesociation-Oojjyrielit Melbourne, Soptemher 26. .. Australian Workors' Union exeoutive has passed a. motion to oppose conscription by lawful means, aud undertaking during the campaign not to join any general strike. AN UGLY SCENE. • POLICE COURTHOUSE RUSHED. Sydney, September 26. ■ At Broken Hill two men were fined for using abusive languago at an anti- , conscription meeting. The crowd mado a demonstration at the courthouse, lushed the police station and bombarded it with stones. The polico charged, using their batons, and dispersed the crowd, i Later the courthouse was attacked. ' . ' SITUATION NOW NORMAL. -; (Rec. September 26, 10.35 p.m.) Sydney, September 26. . Iho police report that tho situation fit Broken Hill is now normal.

THE FLOODS IN MELBOURNE

.WORST IN THE HISTORY OF VICTORIA. Melbourne, September 26. ci 3 ■ 18 t ' l ° worst the history of the State. A.'boy of eleven years fell into a drain iuul "was drowned'. Large passenger boats on tho Maribyrnong River have been wrecked. Telegraphic communication is seriously interrupted. 'lhe Werribce River overflowed, sub- -■ merging all the low-lying land. , ■ At Werribee an 'old man, delivering ■ milk, had his wagon capsized. -Ho hung on to a fence for an hour with only Ms head above water. Finally he ■ sank. At. Seymour, a man named Ghinnick, with his wife and four children, were sheltering on the roof of a house when •...•'it collapsed. The father and children • were drowned, but tho wife was rescued in an unconscious condition, with her dead baby clasped in lier arms. ; Several' boats lader, -with, rescued people capsized, but the occupants were : saved.

WOOL FREIGHTS UP

(Rec. September 26, 10.35 p.m.) ■ . Sydney, September 26. It is reported that the shipping companies ' have deoided to increase the freight on wool by Id. per pound. The cost to. the producers will le an additional two millions.