AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18510, 22 March 1922, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

A DISASTROUS FIRE. HEAVY STOCK LOSSES. Preo* Association — By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, March 21. A terrific windstorm near Albany was responsible for a disastrous fire. It is estimated that 40 square miles were affected. The losses in crass, stock, machinery, hay, and fencing will amount to thousands. LOST AT SEA. HOBART, March 21. Alfred Oxspring, ouartermaster on the steamer Hororata, was lost overboard during heavy weather on Sunday, when the vessel was en route to Hobart. MAHENO’S CAPTAIN EINED. SYDNEY, March 21. (Received March 21, at 10.55 p.m.) Captain Worrall, of the Maheno, was fined £5 for using an ash-injector in port. SEAMEN’S UNION THREAT. MELBOURNE, March 21. (Received March 21, at 10.55 p.m.) The Seamen’s Union ~has issued a manifesto stating that as there has been a conspiracy between Mr Hughes and the Commonwealth Line of steamers to prejudice the claims of seamen in the courts, and as the union has failed to secure its demands by constitutional means owing to the unscrupulous methods employed by those referred to, the union will adopt such methods as it thinks fit to secure justice for its members.