AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 January 1925, Page 2

AUSTRALIA

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association./ ' ! : 7' .7'j77/ 7 ■ \ ■ / FLOOD DAMAGE. SYDNEY, January 15. Hoods in - several Riverina' centres caused extensive damage, although no loss of life is reported. The damage in the town of Hhy alone exceeds £BOOO. COLLIERY IDLE. MELBOURNE, January 16. About fifteen hundred mnn , were idled by a dispute at Wonthaggi coal mine over wages. It is considered probable that the strike will be extended. Blacks RAILWAY COLLISION. SYDNEY, January 15. Preliminary official inquiries into last night’s railway smash show that both trains were travelling at only'live miles an hour, and as a result of this hundreds of passengers escaped almost certain death. All the injured are progressing favourably. It is understood that the driver of the Ashfield train involved in the collision lias been suspended, ’ffiie commissioners have issued a\statenient that during the last twenty-four years there were only three raihwiy accidents in which ]ieopl© were killed through causes beyond their own control. The total of such fatalities was twenty-one. The railways last year carried over 228 million people. DE GARIS’S FAILURE. MELBOURNE, January 16. There were some frank comments at the meeting of creditors of the Melbourne Subdivisions . Company, which De Garis conducted in the — bis wife. One shareholder, supporting the reconstruction of the company, said that no statement of accounts could be given because, no proper books were kept. He added that never had the . company been in such a chaotic state. Another declared that most of those present were merely brokers. If they did not agree, to the reconstruction, they would be. blamed for the crash. Two others expressed admiration for De Garis., Another declared that everybody had forgotten the poor devils who had paid their instalments on blocks - of land.