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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1921, Page 3

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■ YW-TJS CABLED ITEMS s AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. A USTR AI JAN LABOUR 1 CONVENTION. BRISBANE, Oct. 11. 1 The Labour Conference is dismissing a motion that the Socialisation <>l industry. production, distribution, and exchange be the objective of the Australasian Labour Party. FRENCH SHIPPING COY. ■.Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY. Oei. 12 •Advices received here state ilmt the Micssageries Maritimcs Company is resuming their pre-war services. An agreement has been reached for a fiei 1 weekly service between Marseilles, Noii-iii'-a ami Australia. ANGLIC AN CIII'RCII. SYDNEY,, (let. 12. ! Anglican Synod was addressed on the principle of Bishop Long’s proposal to s'Ver the legal nexus between the church in England and Australia. The matter was referred to the diocese. (QUEENSLAND LABOUR PARTY. iiIUSRANE, Oct. 12 The Labour Conference rejected by 11) to !) ail amendment moved by M Theodore that the objective he nationalisation and co-operation through parliamentary machinery. The motion for socialisation i's still under discussion. LIBEL CASE. MELBOURNE. Oct. 12. Counsel for the late I. -I. R\an has secured permission for the public curator of (Queensland to continue his appeal against the verdict in the "Mercury” libel case. The curator is substituting himself ils the appellant. AMERICAN MONEY. ADELAIDE. Oct. 12. Mr .Miller, Governor of the Commonwealth Bank, says owing to the present favourable rate of exchange the (Queonsbmd loan will work out at nearly the same rate as money borrowed from England. MELBOURNE, Oct. 12 lion McPherson. Treasurer, explains the cable is correct that American financiers are negotiating for a loan to Victoria, hut such negotiations as were entered into with British houses would l.e carried out. A DISC HAIM ER SYDNEY, October 12. Suzuki, the new Japanese ConsulGeneral, ill an interview disclaimed ally intention of Japan Hooding Austral., with immigrants, even if h'-'t people were anxious to emigrate, which they were not. Japan would never think of sending them to Australia, it the Australian people were opposed to it. There still is plenty of room for the Japanese to live in their own country, ill «’s Sil)t*ri:i :*»“! Soi.t’.i America and other lands, particularly South Ameiiea. when* there is a ready welcome to Japanese immigrants. garding the statement, that Japan intended to dm at the Washington Conference equal commercial treatment in Australia, it | reliably meant. Japan simply asking to he treated as other foreign countries. There whs no intention to pave the way for wholesale immigration from Japan. Re declared all sections of Japanese favoured disarmament and were looking lorward lu>|>efiilly to the result of the Washington Conference. HOY IMMIGRANT*. ADELAIDE. October The Government adopted a scheme for the introduction of six thousand hoys from England as (arm The hoys will be between fifteen ,’lnl eighteen years of age and the appn nticoship be for a minimum of one, and a maximum of three years during win h the boys be under the gimrdianshin of the Commissioner of Crown bands. ; ml will receive four shillings weekly, the remainder of their earnings being , : id to the Immigration Department and placed to their emit at 4'V, per cent interest and paid them at the age ot twenty one. They will lie required to ■ pay twenty-six pounds passage money, ten pounds prior to departure, and the | ha la nee be advanced free of interest. A * can vis is being made of the farin' es timl pastoralists to absorb the lads. DOI.fTIC.VI. POINTS. SYDNEY, October! 12. The no-confidem-e motion moved by tin* leader of the Country Party in iln* Federal Parliament comes up for discussion oil Tuesday. The Daily Telegraph says the situation has big potentialities. The Country party cannot hop# to win. but ,1 is stated there are a number of nationalists who desire to see Hughes out of office, and if the Labour Flirty deeid'S to suppnj't the Country Party these malcontents will join 'i.e opposition and Hughes will be defeated. Should that eventuate it is expected that Hughes will be able to form a . new nartv of Nationalists and modci rate Labourites who are opposed to the present extremist drift.