AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1921, Page 3

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1 IDHT’iIALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. COMMERCIAL. SYDNEY, Dee. 9. Flour lias advanced from till Is 6d to L'l*..’. IV heat, delivered in Sydney, •Is Rid a bushel. IMPERSONATION. 'Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Deo. 9. Six men were remanded on impersonating charges in connection with the City Municipal elections. medical students SYDNEY, Dec 9. The Medical School at the University is seriously overcrowded. Classes in every subject have to lx* divided, necessitating lectures fr**m different lecturers. The total number of students at the University is now thirty-six hundred. of whom 983 are taking medicine. The* total number of medical students throughout Australasia is 19.800 or one to every hundred of the population. federal politics. MED BO CILNE. Dec. 9. In the House of Representatives a Bill to amend- the Arbitration Act was definitely abandoned, and another Bill substituted. The object is to relieve the congestion at the Federal Court. A proposal enabling Government to give tariff preference to Now Zealand bv proclamation, in accordance with a .reciprocal arrangement passed all stages. A BLASTING ACCIDENT. ADELAIDE, Dec. 9. A blasting fatality occurred at water works at Eyre peninsula. Three men were killed .lames Eustace, Peter McArthur alul .lolm Tigho. One of the deceased dug his pick info an unexploded charge. TASMA XI AN PA RIJAMENT HOBART, December 9. The Legislative Council on the voices rejected a Bill to abolish tin* State (hivernment. n.s.w. boi.iTicAl CRISIS, (Received This Dav at 12.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec 1). ! The political crisis is regarded as a sequel to tin* Municipal elections. There inis boon an unmistakable growing pulilii- feeling that sine** Mr Klo ■- oy’s restraining influence was tv,novel, the domination of the Australian Work els' Union have shown an inclination to press legislative action along some lines beyond the :ii'i*i , ptaneo bounds, and the threatened further large increase in taxation also cnii'e as heavy blow. The electorates generally would probably welcome a dissolution anil appeal to the people. .11 El BOURNE. De--Ibi lt'*:i— ol Represent at ives read a Bill a Gibd tine', endorsing tlio agreement whereiiiulcr the Common weii it it repays ilie Imperial I loveniniellt the balance of ninety-two millions advanced for war purposes. The repayments extend ever a period of thirtysix years, with interest at six per cent.