AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1920, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN.

[AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] AUSTRALIAN NEWS. SYDNEY, .August 25. Arrived at midnight—-Mahcno from Auckland. J. M. Gregory New South Wales fast bower, is temporarily abandoning agricultural pursuits in North Queensland, and will bo available against England. The Lord Mayor has opened a fund for Parer and Mclntosh who according to Calcutta newspapers, established four records between England and Calcutta, namely the fastest for the whole trip, the fastest across India, the first to do the journey with a single engine land the first to follow Caravan routes over the Arabian desert.

MELBOURNE, August 25. Mr Hughes announced that Government is dividing £I,OOO between Parer and Mclntosh. The Manager of the Victorian Varnish Limited, in evidence before the Fair Profits Commission, stated liis com pony was shifting to Sydney owing to the constant: interruptions of coal supplies. He thought other Industries would he compelled to do likewise. Mr Cook’s Budget will be brought down next week. It is understood it involved no new taxation, but abolishes the amusement tax. A surplus forecasted is in the region of 5 to 6 million.

BRISBANE, August 25,

Doctor Taylor in his presidential address at the Medical Conference, dealing with naval and military surgery, said compound fractures: and bone injuries had left an immense legacy of patients with septic food in their bones necessitating judicious operative treatment for years to come. The value of protective innoculation against enteric group of diseases was bound to have farreaching and beneficial results jn the civilian life of Australia. Thanks to innoculation there were only 366 deaths in the whole of the British armies in France, as against tenthousand deaths among troops in South Africa..

Hobart, August 25

Thjijfre has been a butter famine for the past ten days. Merchants are seeking relief from the Commonwealth pool. FEDERAL POLITICS. SYDNEY, Aug. 25. In tho Assembly, Mr Bagnall gave notice of motion that tho time lias arrived for the abolition of State Parliaments and the substitution of a national parliament with full sovereign rights, to govern the Australian nation.