AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1922, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN.

3- STUDENT ADVISOR. SYDNEY, April 29. The University has treated a new post of student advisor and appoint,V ed Brigadier-General Mackny. The oh*l| ject of the post is to acquaint each stuI dent personally of the mind of the TJnijj varsity acting as mentor in all matters iT pertaining to the university. Ifj A CONSPIRACY CHARGE. II i MELBOURNE, April 29. ■fci A sensation was caused in racing firs' ties by the arrest of Jockey Arthur Niemaun on charge of conspiracy to preJt vent Seal King from winning Sando.wn s " I>ark Plate. The information is laid ‘|~ hy the owner who with the trainer n and jockey was disqualified after the .v; rr.ee. jf ’ AUSTRALIAN TAXATION. |1 SYDNEY. April 29. J" The Royal Commission on taxation «J: link presented the second report on the ' “ simplification of the system. It pro■Sl poses that, power to impose income tax, |■, he vested'exclusively in the Comtiioiiczg wealth, and also power to impose other jj * existing forms of direct taxation, land eJ: probate, succession or entertainments J '■ he vested exclusively in the States, suh»s : jeet to overriding powers of the Com--1 momvealth in the case of.war. It re- • commended that the Commonwealth and States should pass uniform income ™ tax assessment acts, and that the Commonwealth he administrative and collective authority for hot'll.

CABLE EXPLAINED. SYDNEY, April 2!)

Fnlmer. secretary of tlie Rugby Union contradicts. tlio cabled report that New South Wales owes New Zealand Rugby Union L'oO!). He suggests that the cable evidently meant that New Zonlend made L'.j'X) as the result of the New South Wales tour of the dominion.

BUTTER INTERESTS. .MELBOURNE, April 20. A conference of butter interests created a. federal hotly with the object of stabilising Commonwealth cheese and butter markets and equalisation of returns to factories on local and interstate sales, to apply only to the choicest first grade hotter, and a hotly to establish a basic price for local consumption.

ENGLISH HACK. LONDON, April 2s. The One Thousand Guineas, resulted —Silver Uni 1 Hidden by Carslnke), Soubriquet 2, Golden Cons 3. STILL .MISSING. SYDNEY, May I. Ti ere is no further news of the M'uiurowa, though anxiety is increns ing. Shipowners believe the trend of prevailing winds account for her noii..nival, and that ;he vessel will turn up safelv.

AUfTR ALTA’S NAVY. (Received This Day at 8 n.m.) SYDNEY, ’May 1. Rcvir-Adndrnl Dumaieeq, the depart-iiig-Cominnnder of tlie Australian Navy, in an interview, commented on the unpleasant fact that Australians failed to realise the importance of preserving a minimum naval force, which would preserve the soul of anything that could he called a licet and that must he preserved through had times, as well as good. If the total amount spent by the sport loving Alls' ralians on racing and other sports was assessed, it would amount to very many times the cost of a tactically efficient Royal Australian fleet. He could not help feeling tlmt on his arrival in England he would feel ashamed of Australia on account of the attitude it had taken up over the Navy. Speaking of the future, he hoped the Navy would never he allowed to drop below three light cruisers, a small minimum of destrnyei s and submarines. The soul of anything like a Navy could not he maintained below that limit. Referring to the developments at the Genoa Conference, he urged the need of keeping up an adequate minimum naval force to secure a fair share of the world's markets, and raw material of the world, mid in ease of Australia, freedom of the seas to export primary products.

CHESS. SYDNEY, April 20. C. G. Watson (Victoria) won tlio chess championship with eleven out of thirteen games, Davies (New Zealand) tied for third place with 7). MEI.HOUHXH, .May 1. Watson (chess champion) is managing director of the Life Insurance Coy. in Australia. Though the championship has already boon decided, the still undecided games may slightly alter the semes of the other players. POST OFFICE II OXIDE I). SYDNEY, April 110. Mr Spencer Colhrain, Postmaster at Scarborough, according to a story ho told the p. lice, had a sensational experience on Friday night. Ho was returning home, when lie was attacked a,nd stunned by two men. lie was hound and gagged and was carried into unconsciousness. When he returned to his senses, at mid-night, and managed tci release himself, he found the keys of the post office were missing from bis pcoket. He reached the police station, still gagged, and partially bound. A visit to the post office disclosed that the safe had been ransacked and CMO taken. There is no clue to the robbers.