AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1922, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

AN INQUEST. SYDNEY, April 21. Doctor Hodkinson giving evidence at the inquest on Eleanor Fisher, a married woman at Orange,'said death was duo to septicaemia which could have been coped with if an operation had been performed. Massage treatment would only aggravate the disease. The faith healer, Devina, Casey, gave evidence that she treated patients by massaging, but. left healing to Almighty God, who gave her all the power to effect cures, without effort on her part. The Coroner committed Casey foi trial on a charge of manslaughter.

CEASING WORK. SYDNEY, April 21. A number of labourers and sewer miners at Canberra have ceased worK, owing to the Federal Government reducing wages and extending the hours (if work from thirty-six to forty-eight. COALMNERS SCHEME, SYDNEY, April 21 Coalminers are issuing a scheme for control of- labour, insisting on all members not accepting employment in any colliery they are not at present employed, without first receiving the sanction of the local lodge

BUTTER ADVANCE. SYDNEY, April 20. Butter las advanced a penny U Is sid wholesale

KILLING THE MICE

SYDNEY, April 21

A further experiment was made with a rat and mouse spray (cabled April (5). There were 128 mice placed in an iron tank on the 19th, with a sack of wheat previously sprayed with the solution. To-day the seals of the tank were broken. The mice were found to be dead, and no attempt had been made to nibble the sacks or boxes.

IMPORTED COAL,

SYDNEY, April 21

The Commonwealth steamers Dundula and Dromana, after being idle for several weeks, have been chartered to carry Newcastle coal to New Zealand. INCOME TAXATION. MELBOURNE, April 21. The second report of the Taxation Commission recommends that a. differentiation bo made between the incomes derived from personal exertion and those derived from property, with a irtisjrdiint of 15 per cent, allowed on| the incomes from personal exertion in the event of a. necessity for raising the rate of taxation. The report also recommends the imposition of a tax oil incomes derived from sources outside Australia, or a tax on profits of sales abroad of exports from Australia.

CHARGE OF THEFT. MEI.BOURNE, April 21. A family (-(insisting of Samuel Cronin, his wife and liis son (aged 21) have been arrested on a charge of stealing Clooo worth of goods from a dwelling occupied by Charles Simpson, who is a squatter. The Cronins are extensive property owners, and are vorv wealthy.

X.S.W. STOCK .MARKET. SYDNEY, April 21. The effect of the dry spell throughout the country for the past few months is showing in the stock sales. The owners of stock are now rushing their cattle and sheep into the market. The sheep prices are being well maintained, owing to a keen demand for the export trade. The exporters are operating freely, in view of a strong tone on the London market, which is predicted to hold. Xo upward movement in cattle is expected. The slackness will continue until a settlement is reached with the workers over the federal Government s beef stthsidv scheme.

ECONOMY NEEDED. SYDNEY, April 21. At the annual dinner of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr Bruce, Federal Treasury, urged that there was a necessity for the strictest economy and I, ,• the fullest developmental work towards relieving the stress of the world’s financial condition. He said: “As the cost of living goes down, the worker must realise his nominal wage must come down. There will be no retrogression in the standard of living attained. AYe must work a full period in the day, and give the fullest return in our power. It is in the negation of this that the whole trouble lay.

ANZAC HOLIDAY. MELBOURNE 1 , :April 21. Although An/.ac Day Ims been proclaimed a public holiday throughout Australia, the Victorian Chamber of 'Manufacturers have taken the remarkable step of urging the manufacturers in the State to keep their factories open and not to observe any holiday. The action is explained in a circular issued hy the Chamber, in which it states that it thinks the anniversary of the landing should be observed with reverence, and the Chamber fears that a public holiday each year, will in time, degenerate into an ordinary holiday.

A.SAY. SOLDIERS’ CRAVES. SYDNEY, April 21. One of the [unctions of Anzae Day will be the tending of the graves of soldiers throughout the State of Now South Wales who lmve died here. U to now, this duty has been somewhat neglected. Complete lists have been tabulated, and, prior to Anzae Day t efforts will he made to place the graves in good order. The Soldiers’ AVives and Mothers’ Association is being as sisted in this work hy members of the Young People’s Societies connected with the churches who will also participate in garlanding the graves on Anniversary Days. QUEENSLAND AND R.I.C. BRISBANE, April 21. The Queensland Government refuses tho request on the groqnd that tho local recruits are both sufficient apd satisfactory,