AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 20, 6 January 1912, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CASTAWAYS’ HARDSHIPS. Sydney, January 5. The Ask ay castaways have arrived in Sydney. Describing their tyring experiences they stated that they spent live days and nights in open boats, which wore leaking to such an extent that it was necessary for a map to hail continuously. The morning after the Askay struck the crew sent a deputation to the captain asking him to aoandon the ship. He refused. A second and third deputation were likewise refused. Not until, the afternoon were orders given to' man the lifeboats. j r‘ ■' . ' AGGRESSIVE GIRLS.; t Sydney, January 5. ■ Three hundred girls mutinied at a reformatory at Clermont, and wrecked the dormitories and 1500 window panes. They kept the police at bay with their wooden sabots until one Tclock in the morning, when thirtyave were arrested. ; 0 “NO HOME.” . Melbourne, January 5. | The Governor-General has informed Mr. Fisher that owing to the New South Wales Government taking over Government House he would he unable to live in Sydney. He must have an official residence if for no other reason than it was necessary in the event of the King or the Prince of Wales visiting Australia.