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Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1921, Page 3

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\ I’S TI! AI. IA N AND N.Z. (A M.T. A I AT»° PI.ADTK SIM? AniV(S. \u\\<v..\ K ;\'. Oft. - 1 . T!u» huhtinir plnjiiii’ is hm' 1 mhn ? in (.liieellshilld. A case Ims 1,, en icp.i.tcd fjoiu Tonwoinuha. an I auuii.cr hum Port Douglas. A lurthcr death has occurred in Brisbane. SYDNEY UNEMPLOYED. SYDNEY. Get. 21 A conference ol representatives ot unemployed and the Employers’ Eedera tiun has been held, with tlie idea of attempting to solve the unemployment problem They sat in camera and adjourned WOOL AND HIDE SALES. MELBOURNE, Oct. 21. At the hides sales large catalogues were submitted and competition was keel! lor all well-flayed panels. The prices were uualatored, except for kips which .were slightly easier. The wool sales trouble has been adjust i lied, and the sales have resumed. The oll'erings were mainly cross-bred',, practically coverng tho remaining parcels of the old clip. There was keen competition and good clearance. Merinos and line come-backs showed a ten to fifteen per cent-, advance. Fine merinos to medium coarse showed a five, per cent, advance.

A FANATICAL HUSBAND

SYDNEY. October 21. Some remarkable evidence was given iu a ,ase wherein Mrs Permit, the wife of an opulent squatter. >s seek- | ing a judicial separation, on the grounds of her husband’s cruelt\. j Counsel for the petitioner stated that the resnomlcnt. claiming a Scriptural warrant, had regularly from soon after .marriage, after stripping the petitioner, laid her across his knees and chastised her with a heavy leather strap. She said that respondent ap-

peared to practice some religious rites before administering Hie floggings. He had Similarly chastised two tii'ls As, a result of. the petitioner’s protests who were wards living in his house, the respondent had ,-eased flogging her In. t |u- had continued Hogging the wards one of whom ran away to escape chastisement. The peti tinnier had constantly hut ineffectually protested against the immodesty of stripping ami the cruelty in flogging the girls, and she had finally leit home. The petitioner gave evidence that .the) Hoggings were administered to her four or five times weekly. She had suffered other nets of cruelty which, her husband had claimed were for her wifely welfare I’eirrott in evidence, denied the charges of cruelty,

FITZROY GANG’S VENDETTA. / * MELBOURNE, October 21. Tliflrc lias been a renewal of tli u notorious Fit/.roy Gang’s vendetta. It has resulted in a man named Olson being shot in the head in daylight in front of a house. A man named Cotter who is a member of the opposing gang to Olson, stated the shooting followed a visit by a number of men to Cotter's residents*: There was he said, some indiscriminate revolver firing, in whieli some women were wounded.

Olson was shot when lie was escaping a f ter lu» made ail attempt to force an entrance to the house. ( otter was arrested. COTTER’S DEFENCE. MELBOURNE, Oct. 21. Cotter lias been charged with the murder of Olson hut was remanded for a week. The accused’s solicitor stated that lie proposes to show at the proper time, that there was jifstifierttion for the shooting. Olson, who was one of the most dangerous criminals ill the Commonwealth was known to the police in :d! States.

FEDERAL POLITICS. AT I'd (BOURNE., October 21. To-night in the Eederal House of Representatives, Mr Bell, a Tasmanian Nationalist, anno,incit'd that lie could not any longer support Air Hughes’ Government. This was owing to its extravagance and estimates. He would vote, he said, for the Country Party’s amendment. ATn Watt (ex-Ministqr), continued the debate. He stated he would vote for the Government, but on the condition Hint .Mr Alassey-Greein- were sent to the Treasury, as he (Greene) could l,e trusted to keep a tight band on the expenditure. The fate of the Government now depends on one man. Air llayley. a Queensland Party Nationalist. whom the Country Pally contends will leave the Government side and vote with them. QUEENSLAND POLITICS. BRISBANE. October 21. In the Queensland Assembly, a liu(•oilfideiice motion was moved by Mr ■ A’bvhts, late at night. 1 , The closure was then applied amidst great uproar at midnight. A censure motion was defeated. The voting in each ease was •To to 31.

INFANT AfORT \ I.ITY SYDNEY. Oct oh"i 20. There is much interest in a Health Week movement, in connection with which medical and other exoerts are delivering addresses on snlqeets dealing with pubic health. One prominent doctor stated tint during Hit I st 10 years New South Wales ha I lost 355.000 babies from prevent ; bb i""itality. This nui" l, "r. hr --.is only a mere fraction of the babies w are permanently damaged through the same causes. 41-HOUR WEEK SYDNEY, Oet 21 The Sydney Chamber of Muniifnc-tiir_ Hirers has deputationised TToti Afr Dooley (Premier of N'.S.AY.), protesting against the introduction of tlie 44-hour week. They stated it. was their carefully considered opinion that no Act had ever been placed -on the Statute hooks which would do more to retard progress or cause unemployment than the Forty-Four Hours Act. Hon. Air Dooley, in reply, stated that ho could not give any promise that the Government would alter itg policy, as it was their considered conviction that something should he done for the people on tin; lilies of this legislation.

CENSURE DEBATE. tßeceived This Dnv at S n.ra.l MELBOURNE, Oct. 21. The eeilture debate in the House of Repflcsontnitives was adjourned until Wednesday. OFF TO FXGI.WD. (l'eceived This Dnv nt. O.ltt a.in.) ME! POUItNF. Oct. 22. Mr Audios Fisher 'late High t’muluissioiici) and f.imib have letnrncd t i England where they w i l l reside ;,e:mantly. QUESTION OF FORM. . Received This Dnv nt 9.-10 n.m.) MELBOURNE G- I 22 In l lie Assembly, .Mr Solly (Labouritel raised ihe matte of V mlencclln's reversal of form, bv running unplaced in the Herbert Power Stakes. M hen winning the Caulfield Cup, Snllv said uiauv experienced with racehorses, considered there should have been an ollieial inquiry. He contended that as ihe Caulfield racecourse "'as Crown land it should not 1,0 hired unless the holders assured the public that the lacing was above suspicion. It is ilifiic ul l to say whether or not. there had been crooked running, but seeing there laid been no inquiry, Pniliainent should take steps to see flint t' '<• public wore protected from those who went into ihe sport to make it dirty.