AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

•tIESIBALIAN AND N.®. CAULS ASSOCIATION. BOOT FACTORY DESTROYED. MELBOURNE. July 18. Ravines l/oot factory at Collingwood wa- destroyed In lire, the damage tnlulliitg £3S.M/00. The blaze was accompanied by an intensified series of loud explosions caused by petrol stored in Ihe premises for finishing purposes.

t.’.S.A. FLEET. GI’EAT PREPARATIONS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.; SYDNEY, July 13. Tit ere tire great preparations for the .'reception of the American Fleet. 'The city authorities and the public are combining to set the city in order to ’ .make the visit as enjoyable as possible. Business people anticipate that they will reap a rich harvest out of the pockets of tlie visitors. LADY .MADDEN DEAD. M,EI,BOURNE, July Rl. Obituary :—Lady Madden, widow of the late Chief Justice. JUDGE DEAD. SYDNEY, July Id. (JLitimry —Ex-J mlgo Francis Edward Dodgers, aged 81. QUA RI! EYM EN ON STRIKE. •SYDNEY, July Id. Quarryinon on strike at Rorthuid Company's Cement’ Work- have decided to resume to-day. A concilia. tiou Committee was appointed to arrange with the head- of the Company to arhitrate on the « au-c of the trouble. MOTORING DISASTERS. SYDNEY. July Id. The usual week-end motoring liolu- : enlist took place, a car racing to 1 catch a city train ran over and killcP ,t man and. injured two girls. Another ear with seven aboard left the road in the suburbs and somersaulted thri'e. Three were badly injured. The petrol tank of a city motor Inis exploded. The lots was .soon a mass of (lames. One of only two passengers was severely burned and taken to tF hospital. BLAGUE PROCLAMATION REPEA LED. .MELBOURNE, July Id. The recently issued proclamation declaring Queensland pleagtte infect'd ha* been repealed.