AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 15538, 7 July 1914, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

A TYPISTE’S DISMISSAL. FURTHER LITIOATIOKi PENDING.

SYDNEY, July 6,

In the libel action Browne v. Bridge, both sides have notified their intention to appeal. [Miss Browne was a typists in the employ of John Bridge and Co., and a letter written in connection with her dismissal, together with her forcible removal from the premises, formed the basis of an action for £2,000 damages, on which a jury recently awarded her £SO as compensation for the manner of her leave-talcing in its physical sense.]

STATE -SESSION OPENS. SYDNEY, July 6. Tire New South Wales State Parliament will open to-morrow. July 7. The Governor’s Speech at the opening of Parliament deals with subjects already covered by Mr Holman’s recent policy speech at Cootamundra.

A HOAX. HARRISON ANDTHE FOOTPAD,

MELBOURNE, July 6,

Harrison has confessed that his tale of being robbed and shot by a footpad on Princes bridge was untrue, and that, he shot himself during a fit of despondency. SMALLPOX.

SYDNEY, July 6. Four additional cases of smallpox were notified to the authorities to-day.

July i. Another cose of smallpox has been dis covered at Newcastle.

CRUELTY AND WASTE IN RAILING STOCK. SYDNEY, July 6. There is a great outcry against the cruelty and waste of the present system of carrying stock on the railways. It has been established that, on an average, a sheep loses 81b weight on the journey from Bathurst to Sydney.

AERLIL MAIL. GUILLAUX WANTS TOO MUCH.

SYDNEY, July 6. The project for organising an aerial mail service- from Sydney to Melbourne has been abandoned, Mr Rickard being unable to accept M. Guillaux’s final terms.

THE AFTERNOON SHIFT. STRIKE OR~LOCKOUT ? SYDNEY, July 7 (Received July 7, at 9.15 a.m.)

A now development has occurred in connection with the Maitland mines and the afternoon shift trouble. A meeting of the Australian Union Federation decided to support the miners. There is now a) probability of the employers, as well as the men, being prosecuted. Steps are. being taken to prepare a case against the employers for locking out the clay shift men.

OPERATION ON A JUDGE. HIS ARM AMPUTATED. SYDNEY. July 7.

Sir Samuel Way, Chief Justice of South Australia, has undergone an operation in Sydney, his left arm being amputated at the shoulder.

STATE EMPLOYEES STRIKE. A WATERFRONT DISPUTE. MELBOURNE. July 7. The employees in the State shipbuilding yard have struck, owing to the Melbourne Harbor Trust refusing to recognise their union officials. Throe, hundred meni have been thrown idle.

EVELEIGH ROBBERY. RYAN REMANDED TO SYDNEY. MELBOURNE, July 7. Ryan, recently arrested fn a house at Albert Park and charged with; being the principal in the Eveletgh hold-up*, ;,?.p----peared in court yesterday, and was remanded to Sydney.