AUSTRALIAN

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1921, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN

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A M A YOU SHOT. SYDNKV, Dee. 12 T!k‘ Mayor nl Morec, T. Ilogau, »;, s shot dead while w ill hi IIK i” 1111 '' 110111 ohuruli. A man named Cun an lias been arrested. He said to the polin'-"l am satisfied I shot him.” An eyewitness staled tin- .issuiiaiu tired three shots at the head am! body and followed by two more at the prostrate body. Curran possessed a idle ami also a Celt with an automatie revolver and three hundred loiinds 01 ammunition- Curran served a seutenee some years non for attempting to shoot a solicitor. Honan had been fot M wars ill Morec. THK HKItACH’S CO.MMKNT. SVDNKV, Dee. 12 'l’ll,, 'll,■raid,” in a leader, states the Pacific Treaty is an expansion of the A n n;lo-,I a par lose into a Holder, gramler iiinierstniuliiin. H I |epeiids on holiest dealing:, not on the s!rongtli ot aims. The surmounting of the Anglo-dnpanesc Allianee difficulty is a mnsterpieee of political strategy. Heaped ing the Tionly’s ■ ■ *'! at i - ’■ ding Nauru, ami the complaint that the \ ersailles Treaty exelndos Amerieao enterprise from eopra and phosphate trading;, the H pi. a Id adds, ■’So far as Australian islands are coneerned. the local plantors will weleome lmth. Amerietin shipping and the partieipation of American capital. There is room for both without unfairness to Australian interests. It is prohttMe Australia will soon advertise in Britain and America for capital to develop tropical possessions.” The Commonwealth will not, in die future, be allowed to absorb the produce of Die mandated islands under ' restricted trading; regulations, nor will Tin haul

cargoes collie to Sydney without outside competition having been met. I here is nothing in the mandate to bolster up such wartime monopoly. A NEW RECORD. ■SYDNEY, Dee. I'-’ Winter, at South Sydney athletic meeting established new Australian figures for the running hop. step and .jump of -!Sft S',ill. INACCURATE. SYDNEY. Dee. V2 Archbishop Mamiix characterizes Mr Gwynti’s statement cabled on Saturday, regarding bis part in the Irish settlement as misleading and inaccurate. SYDNEY PRESS VIEW. I Received This Day at 0.-10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 13 The "Daily Telegraph” in a leader, declares it scarcely needs saying tnat the Pacific agreement will be warmly welcomed in Australia. Atter dealing with the position assigned C hina b\ the ( oiilereiice, the paper says the right of any country to control the composition of its own people mu! t te directum of its trade was not publicly debated at the Conference, but we gather from the compliments paid ilie Australian and New Eealaud delegates that it "as discussed in committee. Vv e may bo confident these delegates have dissipated any false idea of file aims of the White Australia policy, ami any exaggerated impression oi ihc resources that are withheld from development by the exclusion of alien races, but it is clear that for the future, any nation must conduct its policy under the eyes of the whole world. International opinion lias been invoked in and for the future e. ill exercise its influence. Me now hold our territories subject to tile review ot the Association, 'which Washington brought into being.