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Newspaper
Geelong Advertiser
Location
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 27, 1912
Page
3
In the wake of an industrial arrest the growers must accept the inevitable result of market uncertainty and shifting good years. The brief notes economic strain and ongoing adjustments as producers respond to disrupted supply chains and price volatility.
The Legislative Council will meet on Wednesday with Mr Angliss moving the Address in Reply and Mr Richardson seconding. Geelong chalk demand is slack due to drought area rains, with smaller shipments this week. Japanese onions expected August. prior Pacific imports already influence Australian markets. Arbor Day plans in Richmond Fork Reserve involve planting native trees with 400 schoolchildren listed for activities. AWNA assisted tree selection and arrangements. Invitations issued to His Worship the Mayor, Harwon ward representatives, and schools committees.
Next Saturday a junior football match Barwon versus Chilwell will be played at Kardinia Park to mark the opening of new dressing-rooms costing over LUM. The Mayor of Geelong Dr. Williams is to declare them open. Dr. J. Cairns secretary of the park committee led fundraising and support for the project. Gertland footballers message and an autograph request from Miss Clark are noted. Verner Street works advancing with four easements settled for drainage and upcoming tenders for drainage and major construction.
Acmeating of St Pauls Pro Cathedral Vestry at Sale carries a resolution praising Archdeacon Nash. They express deep sympathy, condemn injustice he has faced, and pledge unwavering loyalty and support. Western Beach Bathing season yields modest profits, dividend planned. Artillery pay distributed at Miers Street orderly rooms. 95 parade days planned next year. finances discussed.
M P Mr Ast Ozanne Corio urged the Postal department to remove wires along fencing between the railway station and Ast Moriae and suspend them from proper power. The wires on low fencing posts disrupted circuits and Ozanne's suggestion to use the Goalong East Post Office site for trunk line calls was adopted.
Aged immigrant George Stockley wandered from Bannockburn quarters and, after being found two miles from Tannockhall plains, was remanded to Geelong Gaol for medical treatment. In Beech Valley a man named Thomas Griffiths, 48, suffered a severe foot injury from a circular saw and was hospitalized with stitches. News notes cover military appointments and a new Hope Union campaign with judged branch incentives and visits.
The Hitchcock Memorial Fund committee met with Mayor presiding. Absentees noted. Secretary reported £93 12 collected earlier, total now £2104 after new subscriptions. A deputation to seek government grant on a pound for pound basis agreed. Site for a building discussed but postponed to next week. Subscriptions to be received at Advertiser Office.
Broken Hill plans a referendum of the Amalgamated Miners Association on three questions regarding arbitration with the Broken Hill to Port Pirie company, support for Port Pirie in other actions, and cancelling registration in the Arbitration Court. Mr. W Th Driscoll is elected president for the coming half year, with Mr. T S Tignes reelected vice president.
Wellington reports the Governor’s speech opening Parliament tomorrow will push a higher graduated land tax and raise the ordinary land tax exemption from £300 to £400. The Second Ballot Act to be repealed and native land settlements expanded. Safeguards against land aggregation and restrictive wills area safeguards proposed. Defence expenditure economy to be urged.
Miscellaneous notes recount a dam unloaded from a lorry near Moorabool Street and police court debt cases. Announcements include Kardinia Park dressing rooms opening, a Salvation Army rescue report, a Waterton Cup social, and local sales and entertainment events with city vendors and performances.
London June 26. In the House of Commons an angry scene at question time followed Prime Minister Asquith's reply that suffragists could be released if they repeated offences. Labour MP Georges Lansbury shouted and refused to leave. Ten suffragettes have been released. Emily Davison, jailed for six months, reportedly injured after failing to jump protest lines.
San Francisco reports a new sun spot discovered at Mount Wilson California with an estimated area of 73 million square miles. Efforts to photograph the spot are underway and experts note sun spots influence weather though mechanisms remain unclear.
The French Automobile Club began the Grand Prix with 47 competitors, including 16 English drivers, starting from Poenpe over a NS mile circuit. A crash claimed one life and seriously injured M. Colinet, the car’s passenger.
Paris June 24 The Dieppe boxing carnival ended in chaos after Frank Kinus defeated Georges Carpentier for the middleweight crown amid pandemonium. A ring brawl involving Decamps and Carpentier sparked a fight as officials and spectators surged into the ring. About thirty free bouts followed as gendarmes struggled to restore order and the carnival dissolved in confusion.
An offer of £6000 is presented to Jack Johnson from Tas Vagas also known as Now Moexien through Hugh McIntosh of Sydney for a bout in Australia next year. The opponent is unnamed but believed to be Langford. Johnson has not decided on acceptance. The notice also includes a long testimonial advertisement for Culicura remedies for eczema and an ad for Pitt's Poisoned Wheat for destroying pests.
Berlin reports Germania ridicules Britain’s naval expansion citing high wages and seaman shortages, arguing Britain should end mistrust of Germany and relinquish colonial ambitions. London notes the Marine League backs arming merchant ships as auxiliary cruisers, while the Admiralty prepares to withdraw Mediterranean battleships for maneuvers and announces forthcoming government statements.
Reuters dispatch reports Polany near Rioesun razed with 500 homes lost two years after a similar destruction. In Chicoutimi on the Chicoutimi River a major blaze made 1000 homeless, destroyed 195 buildings and an ancient cathedral. authorities halted the fire after four houses burned. No lives were reported.
Sir Edward Garson, Conservative MEP for Dublin University, condemned the government and its Ulster policy. He labeled the Labour Party as a wretched miserable timeserving opportunist lot in Parliament during a speech to the Women's Unionist Tariff Reform Association.
St Petersburg reports Governor Tre poli has served a thousand Jews with a notice of expulsion. In London King George confers an knighthood on Cardiff Lord Mayor J W Courtis. Paris Senate adopts a bill admitting foreign wheat to ease shortages. New South Wales bowlers perform poorly against Cal Carlisle. English golf championship notes. A lynching in Atlanta involves mob taking a black suspect from jail and hanging her.
Paris dispatch reports Dawton battleship gunners scoring 18 hits in four minutes at a range of 10,000 metres during target practice. The 18,000 ton vessel demonstrated precision and rapid fire as cannons engaged in ponetics.
In Budapest, at the Veszprem cathedral, prisoner Malk kows escaped police, found sanctuary, and was recaptured after reaching the High Altar. Makkows had been sentenced to death on a other charge, with the sensational chase drawing wide attention.
The Board of Trade inquiry into the sinking of the P and O steamer Oceana after a collision with the German barque Pilgrim concluded. The verdict blamed the chief officer for attempting to cross the bows and suspended his certificate for six months. The master and chief officer were censured for not taking adequate safety measures. The chief officer called the decision unjust.
An advertisement promotes a stimulant labeled O.T.1. claiming similar effects to gin and suitable for women needing a stimulant. It touts the palatability of gin blended with O.T. as a revelation, notes there is only one O.T. and warns against substitutes.
London witnesses before the Industrial Council state the right to strike prevails regardless of arbitration form. Calls grow to bar unions from granting allowances to breach agreements. In Parliament, speakers dispute dockside violence claims as a London strike committee seeks loans from international trades groups. Seamen accept unconditional arbitration amid a dockers strike and a shooting incident involving a union delegate. A racehorse Cretonne, delayed by the strike, travels from Australia to London via Plymouth after horse racing in India and Australia.
In Baltimore on June 25 Parker defeats Bryan for the Democratic Convention chair with a 73 vote margin. Bryan had urged the convention to resist wealth influence and criticized Chicago Republicans while Parker criticized the Chicago scene as chaotic. Champ Clarke is noted as favored for the presidency.
Adelaide reports a West Coast case of severe cruelty and drink, where a 20 year old girl married, bore two children, then lived with a degenerate man in a beach tent. She was allegedly sold in a hotel for 7/6, later exchanged for 30/-. The family wandered in poverty, the woman vanished, walked 30 miles home exhausted, and soon bore another child while the farm owner father remains prosperous. The tale ends with the family still on the farm near a shelter erected for the children.
Sydney government announces 100 new locomotives to be built in Eveleigh workshops. The act fulfilled contract not yet set, workers in the railway department to move to eight-hour days from nine. Porters’ wages raised from 7/6 to 8 per day. signalmen salary potential increase unsure. Pedic powder ad appears.
London June 25 There was little play as rain halted the third test between England and Australia after a partial 30 run stand. More rain and a saturated wicket ended play with stumps at 5 45. London June 28 The test resumed in pleasant weather as Australia trail 150 with one wicket down after a strong stand by Macartney. Attendance rose to 14 000 as Foster struggled and Macartney shone with bat and all rounder play. South Africans vs Scotland London June 25 Rain prevented play before lunch and Scotland collapsed after lunch while South Africa won by innings and some hours. First innings and scores listed show England style batting and bowling figures. Australian eight at Henley London June 21 The Australian eight rowed Bourne End to Henley in advance of Henley regatta and Stockholm Olympics with positive interest and noted technique.
Sydney, Wednesday. The anal sheep show opened at Moore Park this morning. Compared with last season, entries were down partly due to the dry season. New exhibitors appeared. Sir Samuel M Caughey of Coonong won multiple prizes in pens of ten rams under and over two years. Orange line captured seven firsts and a prize for a pen of ten ewes. Captain Dangar of Gostiryek won a second for a new of 10 rooms under two years. RR. White of Harden Vale did well among unleased owes in fine, medium and strong. The farmers section impressed small producers. Hotels are filling, ram buyers from South Africa and others are in evidence, signaling sales starting July 1 will be satisfactory.
Sydney dispatch reports HMS Challenger sails for England with about 250 Australian sailors aboard. They will be distributed among Home Fleet vessels to qualify for duties when new Australian ships are ready. The move follows an extended service period on the Aeraben Station and aims to prepare personnel for forthcoming duties.
Adelaide Wednesday report states Thomas Rhodes alias Hayes purged a ferand with having been at stbourne on June 2 armed with felonious intent. The accused was ordered back to Melbourne in custody of Constables Ethell and Cane of Victoria.
The Board of Public Health reported 889 diphtheria cases in the fortnight ending 23 June, including 21 at Bendigo. Dr. Brokenshire questioned completeness of reporting while the chairman, Dr. Ham, affirmed the figures.
The King and Queen began a tour of industrial districts visiting South Wales collieries. An anonymous donor gave 10 guineas to the Welsh Medical School in Cardiff to honor their hospital visit. Geelong West town clerk Henry Bannister recovers but missed the council meeting. News from Wiesbaden reports the death of artist Sir Albert Tadema after stomach surgery at 76. J M Niall of Goldsbrough Mort and Co. was knocked down by a runaway pony, sustaining a slight brain concussion. Mr. Niall’s condition was reported by the Goldsbrough Mort chairman. Mr. Bechervaise returned from Brisbane to Hull port duties, visiting Sydney en route to the gold country. Archibald John Wale of Me Noorat died June 21 from motor-car accident injuries, leaving a substantial estate to widow and children. Executors include Gladstone Blacks, Neil Walter Black, Donald Mackinnon. Rev. M. M. Levy received a ministerial call to South Africa. Interment of the late Hon. Wim Gurr took place at Now General Cemetery, Geelong, with a large, representative cortege and many local officials in attendance. Geelong City Council and local clubs were represented. funeral arrangements handled by King and Son, Moora. Post-funeral notes mention the death of Mrr. W. Gurr and the appointment of B B Wilson as solicitor to Geelong West Council.
An explosion at the Exhibition Gardens tunnel injures three Metropolitan Board of Works employees during routine maintenance. Louis J. Davis, William Harrison, and William Hannan sustain burns and shock, with Davis in serious condition at St Vincent's Hospital. The blast is traced to a gas main leak believed to have persisted for about three weeks.
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