AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 January 1923, Page 2

AUSTRALIA

' /Australian and N.Z. Cable Ainociation.) EX-CRICKETER DEAD. SYDNEY, January 29. The death has occurred of Alfred Richardson Holdshil, solicitor a native of Auckland. He captained the New Zealand cricket team against an Australian eleven some years ago. BUTTER~DEARER. BRISBANE, January 29. The butter pool has increased the wholesale price of butter by a penny ii pound, and it is now £2 5s 4d. FIRE AT MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, January 29. A fire broke out in a boot 'manufacturers’ premises, Flinders Lane. The damage totalled £50,000. RIVERINA FIRE. SYDNEY, January 29. A fire at Balranald destroyed liarbens’ stores, and badly damaged the ‘•Riverina Recorder” newspaper office,. Tha damage is -estimated at al £lO,OOO,

MAIL ROBBERY. ADELAIDE, January 29. On the arrival of the steamer Ordades, en route to London, from Melbourne, it was discovered that the mail room had been forced. Two mail bags were interfered with, but only two parcels of small value are missing. COTTON FIELDS PEST. SYDNEY, January 30. A species of beetle, resembling the ladybird, destroyed half an acre of cotton plots on a north coast farm in a couple of days. The invasion is causing alarm among the cotton growers. LABOUR AND MIGRATION. SYDNEY, January 30. The Australian Workers’ Conference cabled Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, advising him that Australia was unable to provide immigrants with employment at present, and that only rations and cheap farm positions were available for newcomers. BRISBANE’S ENTERPRISE. BRISBANE, January 30. The City Council decided to float a loan of a'million sterling for the beautification of Brisbane.

RAILWAY COLLISION. ADELAIDE, January 29. A train going to Kapunda collided, head, on, with an incoming train from Olapham, near North Terraco station. The latter train , was telescoped, killing. H. J. Brailey (accountant at the Adelaide ‘'Register'’ newspaper office), and J. G. Rowe (fireman of the Clapharii train). Three men. .including the driver of the .Clapham train, and three women, were sent to the hospital seriously injured, and over twenty other passengers were slightly injured. ADELAIDE, January 30. The Chief Railway Commissioner states that it seemed clear the outward bouiid train ignored'the signals, which are.operated electrically. This is th© first accident Within the electric zone fiincG the gj stem was introduced.