AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 192, 4 August 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP TRAM GELIGNITE ON LINE. DEAFENING EXPLOSION. [United ’Preu Association— By CableCopyright.) (Received 4. 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, August 4. What the police think was an attempt to blow up a tram occurred at Manly. The vehicle madp contact with three huge chunks of gelignite. The whole district was disturbed by a deafening explosion; the passengers were thrown into a state of panic; the tram was badly damaged, but no one was injured. UNEMPLOYMENT SCHEME BENEFITS. [United Press Association-By CableCopyrigbt.l (Receivd 4, 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, August 4. Results for the first month indicate the benefits the unemployed are deriving from the Government's emergency scheme. Five thousand are already working and £50,000 has been distributed among Them. Another 2500 begin to-day, and by the end of the week 10,000 will be earning wages for the first time this winter. COLD FIND IN VICTORIA. [United Press Association— By CableCopyright.l Melbourne, August 3. A couple of days ago Arthur Goltz picked up a slug of gold weighing about 20oz in a forest reserve near Taranagulla, a neighbourhood formerly famous for rich claims, from which fortunes were won. Goltz had been trapping opossums, and while making his way home noticed the gold showing. A rush has now set in. Motorcars, lorries and horse-drawn vehicles, each loaded with men armed with picks and axes, are frantically making for the scene, which is 32 miles from Bendigo. Hundreds of acres of virgin ground are available. UNEMPLOYMENT TAX RECEIPTS [United Press Association—By Cable— Copyright.) Sydney August 3. The New South Wales unemployment tax of threepence in the £1 on wages and salaries produced during July £107,000. By the end of the year it will total £1,000,000, and with other forms of income to be taxed will bring the aggregate to the anticipated £3,000,000.