AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19102, 22 February 1924, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE. SYDNEY, February 20. The New Souh Wales Cabinet is considering the chief engineer’s report in favour of accepting the tender of the well-known English firm, Messrs Dorman, Long and Co.', of £4,500,000 for the North Shore bridge. Other tenders have been received running from £5,000,000 up to £5,300,000. GERMAN STEAMER SAILS. SYDNEY, February 21. The German steamer Itauri, which has been held up owing to the strike of seamen, secured a full crew and sailed tor Hamburg. THE NORTHERN COALFIELDS. SYDNEY, February 21. The wheelers in the Seaman No. 1 colliery struck, following on the refusal of the management to provide them with electric lamps. The mine is now idle There are still five other pits idle on the Northern Coalfield.

the baking dispute. SYDNEY, February 21. A mass meeting of the members of the Bakers’ Union formulated a proposal tor a settlement of the strike to be submitted to the master bakers.

THE GLEN FERRIE MURDER.MELBOURNE, February 20. The trial has commenced of Angus Murray on a charge of murdering Mr Berriman, a bank manager at Glenferrie (a suburb of Melbourne), on October 7. Witnesses identified Murray as Mr Berriman s assailant. The other evidence was similar to that the inquest.

(Received Feb. 21, at 11.30 p.m.) Murray’s defence is that he was not at the scene of the murder when Mr Berriman was shot. FENDING OF MRS DOWNS’S BODY. HOBART, February 21. The police found a chaff bag containing portions of Mrs Downs’s body, comprising the head, shoulders, and part of the trunk. The post mortem examination revealed the fact that the feet and arms had been burnt, the remainder of the body being charred. ASTRONOMERS DISAPPOINTED. SYDNEY, February 21. (Received Feb. 21, at 9.50 p.m.) Astronomers were disappointed in connection with last night’s eclipse. _ The moon, with the exception of a few minutes, was hidden by clouds.