AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20870, 9 November 1929, Page 13

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS. THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER. (United Press Association.) , . (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, November 8. Cabinet has offered- the Chief Commissiohership of the New South Wales Railways to Mr W. J. Cleary, who now holds a .high position in a city brewery. A SALARY OF £SOOO. SYDNEY, November 8. (Received Nov. 8, at 10 p.m.) Mr Cleary has accepted the railway commissionership at a salary of £5000.' SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE. STRIKE, OF EMPLOYEES. SYDNEY, November 8. A strike has occurred rbn the Sydney Harbour bridge' works owing to the ■ dismissal of a' craneman. Two Hundred employees have ceased work, bur so far the men employed" in the workshops, where the fabricating is. bring done, are not affected. . The position, is regarded as •serious.

DESPERATE GAOL BREAKER. WARDERS AT BALLARAT* ELUDED. . ; MELBOURNE, November 8. • Known as a desperate criminal and gaol breaker, John Williams eluded the warders and escaped ovqr the wall of Ballarat gaol. Leonard Eowen, who essayed to escape with him, was captured when climbing over tic wall. ' Williams had escaped on several -previous occasions. The police, are scouring densely wooded country for him.'

MURDER OF A CHINAMAN. COUNTRYMAN DETAINED. SYDNEY, November 8. Lee Cheong, a Chinese gardener, was brutally murdered in a. hut at Coolabah (near Warren). Cheong, whose throat was cut from ear to ear, and who had his face laid open by another cut, was apparently killed after a terrific struggle with the murderer. . Another Chinaman has been detained.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS. THE NEW COMMISSIONER. ADELAIDE, November 8. v (Received Nov. 8, at 11 pm.) Mr C. B. Anderson, general superintendent of the South Australian railways, has been elevated to the Commissionership of Railways, vice Mr W. Webb, who is returning to- America.. '

VICTORIAN ELECTIONS. POLICY SPEECH OF PREMIER MELBOURNE, November 8. (Received Nov. 9, at 1 am.) In his policy speech, the Premier (Sir William M'Pherson) announced his intention, if returned at the forthcoming elections, to introduce a petrol tax in order to raise sufficient to meet the deficiency of £1,324,000 at the end of the financial year.