AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1921, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LIQUOR BILL. PERTH, Dee. 2 The Premier introduced a comprehensive liquor bill providing for a license fee to he compounded nt eight per cent, on the gross cost of the preceding year. The liquor poll will he taken in 19154 with a single issue of no license against continuance. Subsequent polls to .ho trienell.v. Where no lieenso is carried, the single issue at ncxi poll will ho testotafion.

REDISTRIBUTION. MELBOURNE, Dee. 2

The Commissioner’s plan for the redistribution of Federal electorates is completed, hut will not he available for a few weeks. It is understood Grampians represented by Mr Jowell, disappears.

P \R LI A M ENTARY SAI.AR I ES. ADELAIDE. Dee. 2

]„ the Assembly a hill was carried increasing the Premier’s salary Irom gq;lll t„ CLICK) sterling, other Ministers from 28150 to 91250. and private members from 2200 to C4OO.

GOVERNOR RESIGNS. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) ADELAIDE. December 2. Sir Archibald Weigall has resigned the Governorship. It is stated the <ecision is due to high British taxation, which has practically left him to conduct Government, house from his own private means. TASMANIA’S GO VEI {.NOR • HOBART. December 2.

gj,- william Allardyee has decided to make a trip to England. The nnluinmvmenl. is made that he will not return to Tasmania. The reason for this step is the inadequacy of the official salary to meet the expenses of Government house, iieeesitat ing him drawing considerably <m his private mcauA.

QU EE NS LA NIVS G( >V EE NOR. BRISBANE. December 2. The Treasurer announced his intention to introduce the Bill to abolish the position of the State Governor. He added that tile people could safely expect the Governorship to he abolished very shortly. CLARA BUTT COMING. SYDNEY, Dec. 2 The steamer Tahiti sailed at HI a.m. |,„ Wellington. Madame Clara Bull being a passenger. VICTORIAN ELECTORATES. MELBOURNE, Dec. 2. The Commissioners’ phm re tlis-lribit-

t i„„ of the Federal electorates is completed. but will not be available lor n works. D i-* Uinh , sslu ,,, l thut the (Lampions icpi esented b\ Mi Jo", disappears. \NTI-1 ABOll JUBILANT. 1...'.1 This Day at 9.10 i SYDNEY, Dei- 2. The anli-l.ahour press are jubilant at the result of the City elections, which ,1, -v profess to regaro as a test o pol I ical Strength between the Australian I ~l,lllll' Parts- as bosses of the Muilltlpai Council.'and the State Parliament, and opponents of that Un'C--1 her,III,IV as an index of pohlu s( ntl ■ . a,i„ uf.,ie election later incut in a, possible Mat* 11 Summarised the press view of pule lie" sentiment is that Labour as represented through its Town Hall ; iiv reaped the overdue harvest of his ,I,.serfs Lord Mavor Lambert a tin* billed Labor’s defeat to the Legislative Council rejecting H- City E-neW Amendment Bilk and having to ight ibe whole capitalism and boycott. h\ a corrupt press. He a,hied! that deom-era.-v would not be baulked long of the will 'of the people, lit would see the obsolete Legislative Council was swept ;v\v;» V.

; \ RACEHORSE'S CAREER, i SYDNEY, Dec. 2. ! ](, js stated the once prominent New ' Zealand bred racer Dr Gama is now doing duty in Hobart in the cart of a Chinese mrket gardener. After finishing his racing career he was pureased by the then Governor of Tasmania, 'hut one day bolted and "as promptly sold to a Celestial. ! INQUEST VERDICT, j SYDNEY, Dee. 2. ! ,\t mi inquest on Copeland cabled on 18th Nov., a verdict was returned | that he murdered Ward midi then com--1 mitted suicide gy taking poison, Hidden | In his hoot.