AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 27 November 1925, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Pe. i'teee Aaaociation—Copyright. SYDNEY, November 26. Corson, Soiomons, Robinson, and Flack were found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Australian Jockey Club in connection with the bogus race books. Corson, Solomons and Robinson were sentenced to six months’ gaol. Flack was bound ovei’ to appear for sentence if called upon within three years. SYDNEY, November 26. An accident at Phillyrs- stone quarry, Banlisidwn, resulted in two men being killed outright, and three others so severely injured that they wilt probably succumb. The son of the quarry owner was ramming a charge, when a terrific explosion occurred. Claude Burton and Jack Whymon. both of Lidcombe were blown fifty feet in the air. Their bodies were horribly mutilated. The injured are: Morgan Jones, of Cabramatta; Allan Phillips, of Bankstown; Arthur O’Brien, address unknown. They are suffering from broken limbs. Hardly a portion of their faces is undamaged. The ambulance men describe the spectacle as the worst ever seen. SYDNEY, Nov. 26. Phillips succumbed to his injuries an hour after admission to hospital. SYDNEY, November 26. Mr J. B. Cramsie,. addressing the New South '.Vales Advisory State Meat Board, regarding the question of New South Wales, with practically '.he whole of its killing done in Sydney, being able to compete with New Zea land, that the existence of so many works in New Zealand was now exercising a good deal of thought in meat trade circles. Men well up in the trade in London told him that they were hoping to secure co-ordina-tion or reorganisation of the meat industry in New Zealand, as at present the many works operating affected in many, cases both the treatment and shipment of meat. SYDNEY, Nov. 26. In response to a request by Mr Theodore, a recount is being made of the Herbert poll. The returning officer is of opinion that it will not afreet the result. SYDNEY, November 26. " he death ia announced of Mr Ross Core, a prominent patriotic worker, and son of the late Mr Charles Gore, curatur of the Colonial Museum, Wellington.