GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2427, 5 April 1915, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

LABOUR DIFFERENCES NEW SOUTH WALES CONGRESS STORMY SESSION PROBABLE (Rec. April 3, 3.30 p.m.) Sydney, April 4. The Political Labour League Conference has opened. Mr. E. L). Meagher, M.L.A., who presided, emphasised the point that the conference was supreme, and wanted no political mandarins 'or bosses. If anyone allowed the idea to grow that the Parliamentary Labour Party was superior to a conference, then the Labour movement was ripe for disintegration. He favoured wiping out the Upper House. Mi - . Holman, the State Premier, defending the Upper House appointments, foreshadowed the appointment of another batch of Labour supporters. Those demanding the wiping out of the Council were really more desirous of destroying the Government./ The Houae had dealt in tho only way possible with the pushing through of the Labour programme. In a few years, by filling the vacancies in the Legislative Council with Labour men, they would establish a House which would consent to its' own destruction. Matters arising out of the war were now so settled that tlioro was no longer any need for the- Government to withhold the carrying out of its programme. The ionference promises to be stormy. The agenda paper includes several resolutions censuring the Government. THE TOTALISATOR VICTORIAN MINISTER'S POLICY. ' Melbourne, April 3. The State Attorney-General, referring to the totalisator movement, stated that "to legalise this anti-social vice would bo a wrong to the community." The policy in regard to gambling was to keep it as disreputable as possible, and confine it to the racecourses. TRADES UNION BOYCOTTS DECLARED ILLEGAL. Hobart, April 3. In a case arising out of the carters' strike the Full Court decided that all boycotting was illegal. EIGHT BLACKS MURDERED TURKEY GREEK TRAGEDY. Perth, April 3. Altogether eight natives : were murdered at Turkey Creek at the aboriginal camp. Three charred bodies have been found. Two of the perpetrators of tho murders have been found. OBITUARY SIR FRANCIS SUTTON DEAD. ■ (Rec. April 5, 1.20 a.m.) Sydney, April 4. The death is announced from heart failure of tho Hon. Sir Francis Sutton, president of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 1903. After attending the opening jof the Royal Show on Wednesday Sir Francis collapsed, but his condition was not thought critical. Born at Bathurst in 1839, Sir Francis Sutton entered the New South Wales Parliament at the age of 36, and was a prominent figure in the public life of tho State ever since. He was president of the Royal Agricultural Society. A FEDERAL POLITICIAN: Obituary: Mr. Robert Howe, member for Dalley (New South Wales) in the Federal House of Representatives. [Mr. Howe was a Labour member, and was returned in 1910.] CABLED NEWS IN BRIEF STEADY RAIN IN SYDNEY. (Rec. April 4, 3.30 p.m.) Sydney, April 4. (Steady rain has fallen since the early morning, and continues. (Rec. April 5, 1.10 a.M.) Sydney, April 4. The rain has ceased, but the weather ' is still unsettled. KING OF DENMARK OPERATED ON (Rec. April 5, 0.20 a.m.) Copenhageh, April 4. The King of Denmark has undergone a successful operation for an intestinal fissure. SERIOUS EARTH TREMORS. Adelaide, April 1. A serious earth tremor occurred at 8.30 o'clock yesterday morning. It was reported from various parts of the State.