AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS.

Evening Star, Issue 15516, 11 June 1914, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS.

BANK NOTE FORGERIES. THE AUCKLAND SUSPECT. ’res* Association—Ey Telegraph—Copyright. "SYDNEY, June 10. Guttsche, the young '■ Russian who was arrested on the let inst. on a charge of attempted forgery of a £1 note, was todav committed for trial. He pleaded not guiltv. June 11.

(Received June 11, at 10 a.m.) Joseph Sharp gave- evidence that sis months ago he agreed to become a partner with Guttsche in a lithographic business, and advanced him £25. Subsequently accused showed Sharp an apparatus for making bank ftotee, and told him they could make plenty of money in a short time and then go to another country. Sharp said that was no good to him. Accused told witness to keep quiet, and they would change the notes in New Zealand. Sharp still demurring, Guttsche declared that the first man who came into the place he would shoot dead, and himself afterwards. Sharp then gave information to the detectives.

GUTLLAUX AS MAILMAN. SWIFT AIR TRANSPORT. MELBOURNE, June 10. M. Guillaux carried the first aerial mail from Bendigo to Ballarat. He covered the 80 miles in 55min. SMALLPOX.^ SYDNEY, June 10. Another case of smallpox ha® been reported. BUILDING TRADE STRIKE. STIPULATION FOR CONFERENCE. PERTH, June 11.

Mr Justice Burnside has refused the Labor Federation's request for a compulsory conference in connection with the building trades strike, unless the men first return to work. THE AFTERNOON SHIFT.

DEADLOCK AT MAITLAND. SYDNEY, Juno 11. (Received June 11, at 9.25 a.m.) The position in regard to the afternoon shift on th.e Maitland coalfield is unchanged Both sides are firm, and the pits remain closed. BATHER SEIZED BY SHARK BEFORE HIS WIFE’S EYES. MELBOURNE, Juno 11.

While a man named Croxford was bathing at Sandringham, in Port Phillip Bay, in the presence ot his wife, she was horrified to see a. largo shark seize and draw down her husband. Ho was not seen again.