AUSTRALIAN.
AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]
IN THE PACIFIC. (Received Tliis Day at noon.) SYDNEY, This Day
Mr. E. C. Eliot, Resident Commissioner of Gilbert and Ellice colony interviewed, strongly urged that some form of federation or cohesion was urgently required in the Pacific Islands.
REMITTING SENTENCES. MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr Miller announced that Government as decided to remit all unexpiied naval and military sentences, in cases of summary conviction, and a generous remission of sentences in the case of those courtmartialled. Cabinet has decided to remit one fifth of the period of all sentence prisoners, irrespective of the length of the sentence. ADELAIDE, Tliis Day. Government has announced the remis sion of portion of the sentence of prisoners.
FERRY FARES. (Received This Day at noon.) SYDNEY, This Day
As a result of . tho public outcry against a further rise of ferry fares, a Royal Commission of Enquiry lias been appointed. As preferable to undergoing trouble and expense involved in an enquiry, the Ferry Company has offered to sell to the Government, or any purchaser.
STRANDED FIJIANS. SYDNEY, This Day
A considerable number of residents of Fiji, including returned soldiers, are stranded in Sydney owing to the shipping strike.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19190718.2.29
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1919, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
198AUSTRALIAN. Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1919, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in