AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1921, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

iUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ATHLETE’S DEATH. SYDNEY, May 10 The death is recorded here of Vaukler, athlete and Swedish consul. (Vaukler recently" beat the world’s record for javelin throwing). CAPPING DAY IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, May 10. The Sydney University Senate has withdrawn its ukase against the students holding the annual commemoration procession., and decided to allow it to be held under careful supervision to prevent a recurrence of last year’s disgraceful exhibition. ONE BIG UNION. SYDNEY, May 10. The Transport Workers’ Federation are completing their scheme to link up all the unions connected with the shipping industry, and also the carters the coal trimmers and coal lumpers throughout Australia into one big organisation. Tins will involve between 40,000 and 50,000 members. The constitution has already been adopted. N.S.W. FINANCES. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 11. Despite the largely increased revenue, it ife anticipated the State’s financial year will end iri an accumulated deficit of about three millions. The chief causes are charges in connection with meeting the ’Board of Trades’ new basic wage, and the heavy calls arising from unemployment. HEAVY RAINFALL. SYDNEY, May 11. Very heavy rain for the past two days in the city continues. A largo part of the State is participating. 44 HOUR WEEK. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 11. Justice BeebyYias extended the 44 hour week to the building, sau milling, iron, shipbuilding and starch trades and also recommended it for dressmaking and wliiteworkcrs occupations. PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. SYDNEY, May 11 At the opening session of the' General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, Rev Edwards, the new Moderator, in his inaugural address strongly pleaded foi a more liberal theology to meet the present day needs. He declared our gospel was the gospel of life, and our doc-, trines must not he a repetition of the forms of expression that were made what they are, by controversies and questions', once living, but now dead. If organised Christianity was to retain its hold upon educated people, and to regain the. hold it had lost, it must have a theology which, when challenged, could prove itself to be advancing uiti human knowledge, and the development of moral consciousness. COMMUNION WINE. .Received This Dpv at 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 11 At the conference of Women Christian Temperance Union, the possible danger of the use of fermented wine for sacramental purposes was raised. Archdeacon Hindley depreciated a discussion as it might cause a division among the friends of temperance. He declared the general experience of clergymen m all parts of the world, was that the danger from the use of fermented wine at communion was purely imaginary. AUSTR ALT AN NEWSPRINT. MELBOURNE, May 11 At the annual conference of the Australasia Provincial Press Association, samples of newsprint made from Austra-; lian woods, of excellent quality, were shown and much impressed the dele* gates who decided to ask the Federal Government to assist more liheraffy )» continuing tests, with a view to the establishment of the newsprint industry. MORE WOOL SALES. SYDNEY, May 11 An all day wool sale has been fixed fo r Thursday, practically covering the offerings, which usually occupy three ; days. • CANNIBALISM. i (Deceived thin day at 9.30 a.m.) ! PERTH, May 11. ; Mrs Bates who returned from Oohlea ' district where she for years has worked among alxirigines, states there is ennI jiibalism rife there. At a recent initiation ceremony two natives were kil - ed and eaten. In other instances, women killed and ate a newborn baby. Another woman ate her four babies. Hunger was not the cause but cannibalistic instinct. i SERIOUS SENTENCES. ! AUCKLAND, May 11. At the Supreme Court, Justice Adams dealing with the case of William Albert Hedley Love, who pleaded guilty to incest on his own child, saul he was going to impose the maximum penalty. He deferred stating it until lie ascertained the limitations of the ■ baw. . Robert William Regley, a circus labourer, for indecent assault on a girl ol ten years, was sentenced to seven years hard labour and a flogging of ter strokes.