AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2886, 4 March 1916, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

VX ELECTRIC T__EGM_PH. —00.-KIGHT. TElt PIl-BS ASSOCIATION. (.Received March -1, \)Ao a..in.) ... Sydney, March -I. Fire dcsii-oved liusine.ss promise,-, al Wauohope lo'lho extent ol" iMU.UUO. Da-rev, flic boxer, has offered lii;.--.services fo the aviatiom corps. Frenian'th', March I. Arrived —Oronles and iNi,wa,rn, rrom London. Melbourne, March -1A deputation from the Sydney Labour Council asked Senator Pearce to extend hits early dusting-order lo P.•10 o'clock owing lo the dismissal of _00 employees which Iho earlier closing would entail. Senator Pearce sympathised with the deputation, bul considered (here wan ample justification for closing the, hotels al. S o'clock. The police suspect Ihe motive for the HrideJibe-re; ,lragedy, iv which a chaiTc'ur was found .shot dead under a car, was that the occupants <>f ihe car intended 1o hold up the bank in I lire vicinity, but Haines, the chauffeur, refused to participate and wa.s killed lo prevent his giving information. A substantia,! reward is- offered for •iiiiformatnon lending lo the arrest of the criminals.