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Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1921, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATI"” SYDNEY, A PLAGUE PORT. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 2. Owing to the plague case, Sydney has been declared an infected port. Strict precautions are being taken. MILLIONAIRE ESTATE. SYDNEY, December l. Probate lias been granted in the will of William Gibson of the firm of F. O. 15. Gibson, of Melbourne. It shows the Victorian portion of the. estate was sworn not to exceed C1,720,0(H) for bis personality and C 130.000 reality. SYDNEY ELECTIONS. LABOR PARTY DEFEATED.

(Received This Dav at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 2. _ The (,'itv elections resulted in the defeat of Labour. Exceptional interest was taken and there was very heavy polling; which closed at 7.30. The counting was not finished till very late. Labour lost lour scats and the Independents two, which the civic reformers gained, giving the civic reformers sixteen, and Labour ten. Previously the Council consisted of thirteen labour, eleven civics and two independents. Lord Mayor Lambert squeezed ill by two votes. Dick Meagher was defeat-

I.W.W. RELEASED. SLINKY, Dec. 2. Reeve, the last of the Independent Workers of the World prisoners, has been released CIOO PENSION. .'Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Doc. 2 The Government have decided to introduce a bill to provide ex-Premier Storev’s widow with a pension of C4OO per annum, the daughters to recoile one fourth. SYDNEY HARBOR BILL. SYDNEY, Dec. 2 In the Assembly, the Harbour Bridge bill was read a third time by Ist to 11. FEDERAL POLITICS. SYDNEY, Dec. 2. Referring to the Convention Bill, lion Dooley, interviewed, said be bad not seen sufficient reasons for it. Hie Federal constitution worked I airly well. He suggested the work should be accomplished by a. conference of representatives of the Slate and Federal Parliaments. COMMERCIAL. MELBOURNE. Dee. 2 Bariev. English Is to Is 2d. tu|>e As; cats Us lld to 2s 7d. potatoes i“to C 3 !”s, new CO: unions C2 os to

LAND TENURE. SYDNEY. Dec. 2. The \ssolllblv read a second time the Bill (introduced by the Minister for Lands) for sub-dividing holdings. m view to expediting . lose settlement I lie Bill is largely similar t<» the mm which failed to pass last session ajul wine caused a flutter here-, and in London financial circles, owing to its being ol an allegedly confiscatory u liaraclei. Tht» essence of the measure is a clause providing a tax shall be levied on land belli from beyond the halt ol twenty thousand sterling. For the first year, a, tax of threepence; second year, sixpence; third, niaepi'iice. and fourth, and everv succeeding year, a shilling in the pound, provided that for the first war not less than one fourth, and the second year not less than one half and third and/ following years not less than three-fourths ol the cultivable laud in the surplus area is cultivated ol the Western Land Division. Pome other sections are exempted. The bill parti rulariy the penalty taxes, are, strongly opposed.

AT BROKEN HILL. SYDNEY. Doe. 2. The Minister of Mines states there are less than a thousand unemployed at Broken Hill which is almost norma!.