AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1934, Page 7

AUSTRALIA

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] IRONWORKS DISPUTE SYDNEY, August 29. The strike at Lysaght’s iron works is to continue. A mass meeting of one thousand men rejected a proposal for a secret ballot. They expressed resentment at the Minister of Labour’s intervention. LINER’S STOWAWAYS. FREMANTLE, August 30. Wireless advice received from the liner Jervis Bay, which left Fremantle on Saturday for England, stated that a woman and her three children, aged 11, 5, and 2, were discovered aboard as stowaways, without money or luggage.' CENTENARY VISITOR. WASHINGTON, August 29. The Navy Department announced that Admiral Frank Upham, Comman-der-In-Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, will arrive at Melbourne for tho centenary on Octobei- 21, aboard the flagship Augusta, which is now stationed at Shanghai, en route on a visit to British and Dutch East Indian ports. DETECTIVE’S FATAL FALL. SYDNEY, August 29. A well-known turf figure, the Senior Detective of the Australian Jockey Club, Thomas Malone, fell from a fourth storey window at the A.J.C. offices to-day, and was killed. There was no eye witness of the tragedy. It is stated that he recently had been in ill health. Detective Malone had been conversing with A.J.C. officials a few minutes before, preparing to attend the Kensington mid-week races, when a crash was heard outside. Malone’s body having fallen on tho iron roof of an outbuilding from a height, of forty feet. He sustained terrible injuries, death being instantaneous. AMERICA’S 71UP NEWPORT, August 28. A broken jumper strut forced the yacht “Yankee” to withdraw from its engagement with the “Rainbow” to-day when it was leading by about three lengths. The series will resume tomorrow.