AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1920, Page 4

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(By Electric Telegraph—Cop_>. ight.J NO CONFIDENCE. SYDNEY, March 6. At a meetnig of three hundred tennis players, a motion of no-confidence was carried in the new Council, owing to the unsatisfactory methods adopted in its election. VICTORIAN POLITICS. MELBOURNE, March 6. Voting on the censure motion, the Country Party supported the Ministry. A new political party named the “Middle Class Party’’ lias been formed with the object of protecting the rights of the middle class and reducing the cost of living. EMBARGO RAISED. MELBOURNE, March 6. Government have raised for six months, the embargo on the export of base metals. TRADES COUNCIL REQUEST. BRISBANE, March 6. The Trades Hall Council has requested Government to submit all proposed industrial legislation to the Council before it is presented to Parliament. METHODIST DISCUSSION. ADELAIDE, March 6. The Methodist Conference is discussing a motion making total abstinence from alcohol a condition of church membership. PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY. BRISBANE, March 5. Ih a Anglican Diocesan Council <t Rockhampton received a letter from the Right Rev. G. D. Halford, D.D., M.A., Bishop of IRockhamption, announcing his intention to resign his See. He declared that he was about to renounce all he possessed and live a life of poverty for Jesus’s sake. He conceived this to be'* a call from Goei which he dared not disobey being constrained by the example of the Son cr God, who, though rich became poor. After his resignation, Dr Halford becomes a worker in the Bush Brotherhood. CUSTOMS TAKE ACTION. SYDNEY, March 5. The Customs authorities confiscated a number of sovereigns and a quantity of gold jewellery valued at £9OO found in the possession of five Indians from Fiji, who were about to leave Australia. Tlie gold represented their five years’ savings while working in the plantations. This is the first case of confiscation since the proclamation prohibiting the export of gold was Issued in 1915.