AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 July 1924, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BY CABLE -PRESB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, July 21. According to reports from \Vagga, a dispute arose between two men. John Sheldon and John Lang, rabbiters, at a camp at Wantabategetry It is alleged that Sheldon attacked ‘Lang inflicting extensive injuries, afterwards tying Lang to a bed. Sheldon, according to Lang’s story, then left for the nearest township. lie later returned, but in the meantime Lang had succeeded in freeing himself, and had hidden behind the door and advanced towards the bed with an axe in his hands. When he .raised the axe Lang sprang upon him. A desperate struggle ensued, in. which Lang secured the axe and,' it is alleged, inflicted injuries on Sheldon;, • from which the latter died. .".Lang- has been arrested. . A strike has occurred at the metal manufacturers’ works at Port Kembla. The trouble originated among girls employed there. No fewer than eleven vehicles, valued at nearly £SOOO, were stolen here during the week end. Only three have bee.n recovered. In one case the owner saw his car being taken, but the thieves kept him at bay, present ing a revolver at his head.’ A police patrol chased another car for miles through the suburbs, but the thieves escaped. BRISBANE. July 21. The Premier stated that Dr. Spalilinger has voluntarily offered to supply the Queensland Government with a quantity of his tuberculosis serum for demonstrational purposes conditional on its being administered by a public health officer. The offer was accepted. Mr Justice Lukin, commenting in the Supreme Court on the prevalence of cargo pilfering, said that in one year in the Commonwealth £388.000 worth of goods had been 1 stolen, of which Queensland’s sliare was £s‘>,ooo. These thefts necessitated higher selling prices for the goods sold to the public. He wondered why the honest majority of workers did not exercise some sort of reign of terror over the thieves. He sentenced one man to three years’ gaol for stealing goods, and another to one year’s gaol "for receiving.

At the hearing of the sheep industry case before the Arbitration Court, Chief Justice McCawlev made it clair that wages must fluctuate according to- the prosperity or otherwise of the industry. The Court raised the wages of adult employees on a sheep station by ten shillings weekly, and others accordingly. The shearers receive 5s per hundred extra. The Court refused increases in the cattle.industry wages.