FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 23863, 18 April 1941, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM ‘ STAR * FILES A boy was courageously rescued from the Yarra River, Melbourne,’ by a Duuedinite. The lad would have drowned but for tho timely arrival of a young man named Charles Ash, who jumped in without, hesi. tation and brought the little fellow safely to land not much the worse of his immer. sion. •*, * • The shearers have established a reign of ■terror in the Barcaldine district of Aus. tralia. The unionists are firing wool sheds, wagons, huts, and grass, and capturing free shearers in all directions.- The people are maddened and threaten to take the law into their own hands. * * * * The City Council has decided to subsidise to the extent of £lls the proposed improvement of the Octagon, leaving the Amenities Society to find £75 and the gene, ral public about £2OO, it being estimated that it will take close on £4OO to carry out the work of the plan decided upon. Cr Fish paid a high compliment to the work of the Amenities Society. « * ♦. ♦ Rioting, which lasted many hours, took place at Bradford, where the mill hands have gone out on strike. The police, questioned the right of the men to hold a public meeting, and when they attempted to disperse the gathering the striker* forcibly resented the police interference. The outcome was a general riot, and the assistance of the military was evoked. • • * ♦ * Ex-King Milan has agreed to leave Serbia till his son attains his majority and the Government will allow him a pension of 80,000 francs a year. * * * * The petroleum experts at New Plymouth are satisfied with the present indications —strong natural gas showing itself at a depth of 800 ft, which is always the forerunner of oil. *■***■ The Nihilist who was arrested during a review of the Guards at which the, osar was present and who had a revolver and a powerful globule in bis possession, proved to be a member of the Kbarhoff Murder Society, which is pledged to assassinate the Tsar. Nearly all the members ,of the society have been discovered and taken into custody.

The withdrawal of £600.000 in gold for Germany and Austria has had the effect of hardening the English money market, and it is feared that the bank rate of discount will shortly be raised to 4 per cent.

Baron von PiUach has arrived hare on route for Samoa, where he is to occupy the position of president of the Municipal Council, to which he was appointed by Germany, England, and America.