NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 30 August 1927, Page 8

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

CABLES IN BRIEF At Dagmapur Station, in the United Provinces. India, one elephant out of a consignment of four suddenly went mad and killed the “hahout” in charge. It then occupied a railway yard and all work was stopped for several hours. The climax came when 200 passengers from an incoming train stampeded to neighbouring villages. Later the elephant made for the open countty and killed several villagers,

Following the refusal of a claim for increased wages, 160(1 employees of Hoskins’ ironworks. Lithgow, N.S.W. struck, idling the whole works.

In the Federal Arbitration Court Judge Beeby delivered judgment in the ease in which the engineering and blacksmiths’ union asked for a variation of the award, with special reference to daily hiring, piecework and overtime. In a lengthy judgment, Judge Beeby restored weekly hiring, with a proviso that any employer who is harassed by unfair claims for compensation for sick pay or by the failure of employees when leaving employment to give a week's notice, may apply for exemption from weekly hiring on terms to be fixed by the. Court.

The 'steamer Otterpool from Britain arrived at Adelaide with a fire smouldering in three holds. The crew has had a terrible experience fighting the fire and fumes since August 11.

' A Chumounix official report says the train accident was due to the engine driver's mistake. When he reached the slope instead of revers, ing the engine, thus braking, he turned the handle the wrong way. The train dashed off madly and thereup he lost his head and turned on full steam. Nevertheless, there might not have been so many lives lost hut for a trivial incident, a door opening on the first carriage. The conductor, in trying to shut it. fell out, otherwise he would have been able to uncouple and stop, as did the conductor on the second car.

Answers to yesterday's questions: (1) Sir James Barr. (2) ‘‘The Chocolate Soldier” is based on Bernaid Shaw’s "Arms and the Man.” (3) Europe's most southerly point is Cape Tarifa, in Spain. (4) Petane is the Maori pronunciation of Bethany; Petone is a corrupt form of Pito-one, the end of the sandy beach.