AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23353, 19 November 1937, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

. VESSEL’S ENGINES DISABLED SAFELY TOWED TO PORT MELBOURNE, Nov. 18. Rolling in heavy seas, with her engines disabled, the steamer Autolycus was savgd from a dangerous anchorage two miles outside Port Phillip Heads last night by two tugs, which raced to the ship from Melbourne in response to an urgent wireless message for assistance. The freighter, with her two anchors holding on the rocky bottom, pitched in the heavy swell for more than seven hours. If the cables had parted she would have been dashed on the reefs at Point Lonsdale.

It was nearly three hours before a tug was able to secure a line from the Autolycus, and a further two hours and a-half elapsed before the tugs swung the ship round against the wind and towed her into port. The pilot had just been taken aboard the Autolycus when the engines broke down. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL VICTORIAN REFORM BILL MELBOURNE, Nov. 18. (Received Nov. 19, at 1.30 a.m.) . Several amendments which cut directly across the State Ministry’s proposals for reform of the Legislative Council were made in the Constitution Reform Bill by the Legislative Council. The Premier, Mr A. A. Dunstan, stated later that by inserting ludicrous amendments the Council was definitely refusing to accept the will of the people, as expressed at the recent election. THE SYDNEY WOOL SALES SEASON’S RECORD FOR MERINOS SYDNEY. Nov. 18. (Received Nov. 19, at 1.30 a.m.) At the wool sales to-day greasy merino made the season’s record of 28d.