AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 19803, 24 April 1906, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

A TERRIBLE FATE. Per United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. PERTH, April 23. A train was partially derailed at Kalgoorlie, and the lireman, Newby, became pinned against the boiler. It was impossible to extricate hint, and he was slowly roasted to death, his piteous appeals to bo put out of his misery lasting live hours. The driver (Sexton), had his leg broken, and a man named Lind a collarbone fractured. PUNISHMENT OF GAMBLERS. SYDNEY, April 23. Received 23rd, at 11.43 p.m. A majority of those arrested in the Engine street “two up ’’ raid pleaded guilty and each fined £-1 ; the doorkeeper and ringmaster £75each. UNPALATABLE. The Arbitration Court Registrar applied for the cancellation of the Wharf Labourers’ Union on the ground of their refusal to enrol a member. The President, in granting a postponement till Thursday, declared that the agreement had been disregarded, and the Court flouted. He ordered the Union to enrol the member and pay bis wages till Thursday. At a sale of thoroughbreds Charles Stuart was passed in at 800 guineas and Waroo sold at 410 guineas. Received 24th, at 1.27 n.m. Machine Clan has been sold to Charles Baldwin, of Durham Park, for 950 guineas. It, is expected that he will go to the stud. EIGHT HOURS DAY. MELBOURNE. April 23. For the eight hour celebration the unions mustered strongly and great crqrwds watched the procession. There was a record attendance at the sports.