VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1914, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

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A BIG BLOW

SYDNEY, January 28.—Many buildings were unroofed and damaged in the city and .suburbs by a fierce westerly gale. For several hours the sgualls had a velocity- of 75 miles an'hour. Several vessels were blown from their moorings, but escaped with slight damage. NEW LABOUR .MINISTRY. SYDNEY, January 28.—The Labour caucus ballot for the election of :i new Ministry resulted in the choice of Messrs Carmichael, Griffiths, Holman. Flowers, Trefle, Cann, Hall, Estell, Hoyle and Ashford. The three last-named ar e all new men. Air McGowen did not seek re-election, while .Mr Edden was defeated. Air Holman allots the portfolios. '.Hie caucus sat seven hours, and there was exhaustive balloting in electing the Ministry. Extraordinary precautions were taken to exclude the press. TROUBLE BREWING. SYDNEY, This Day.—The injunction recently granted by the Chief Justice re straining the loperation of the award granted to the building labourers,' which raised wages to lis per day, ?., causing unrest, which has now been intensified by the action on the part of some master builders in declining to cotinue paying the new rates. The secretary of the Builders and Labourers Union will not countenance any .reduction in wages or alteration in tlie conditions laid down by the Federal award. A special meeting of the executive was empowered to call a "stop-work" meeting (On Saturday, if necessary, to hear the report of the representatives appointed to interview the employers. THE THIRD JDEGKEii. MELBOURNE. This Day:'—The Super intendent of Police, in a report to the Chief Secretary, strongly protested against Air Prendergast s recent order prohibiting the application of the third degree in the examination of suspects. He contends that it tends to the prevention and detection of crime and operates against the police in favour of the law bleaker. The (Thief Commissioner of Police recommended that the matter he left to the intelligence of the oflicers engaged in the case. CATHOLIC MARRIAGE LAW. (Received thfs day at 9.10 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day.—Archbishop O'Reilly, in an official statement of the Roman Catholic marriage law, says that his Church looked upon divorce, from whatever cause, as absolutely unlawful. The civil law nullified many laws of the Church, and.claimed the right to nullify the contract of marriage, but such power over the sacrament of marriage, lie held, was unalienably that of the Church The Ne Temere Decree was merely an assertion of that right, which the Church always claimed. A Catholic must bo married in the presence of a priest otherwise it was no marriage before God. He condemned mixed marriages. The children must be brought up as Catholics. NEW SOUTH WALES LABOUR CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, This Day.-Upon the Labour Conference resuming the discussion on the abolition of the Upper House, the women delegates advocated placing several women, in the position of legislators. The conference decided that names of all future nominees to the Legislative Conn cil shall be submitted to the Central Executive of the Political Labour League for endorsement, thus placing nominees in I the Upper House on the same iootuig as the Labour Party candidates for the Legislative Assembly. A FIRE. SYDNEY, This Day.—A fire destroyed the building of Eakin Company, drapers, at Woollahra. An estimate of the damage is £7OOO. The cau.se of the outbreak is unknown.