AUSTRALIAN

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1922, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN

4UBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CA[ILK ASSOCIATION

ADMIRAL DYING. -MELBOURNE, June 11. The Navy Board announced that Admiral Dumaresq is seriously ill at Manila and there is small hope of his veil very.

MELBOURNE, June 11. An audacious assault and robbery occurred at St Kilda. Sam Allen, :i well known bootmaker, was stepjling from a taxi at his home, when three men attacked him and seized him by the throat and robbed him of £SO in cash and £SOO in cheques and jewellery. The robbers then decamped. The driver of the taxi attempted to go to his assistance, hut was threatened.

ANTHRAX. HOBART, June 10

A report has been received at Burnie of three suspected cases of anthrax among cattle at Natone. Further investigations are being made. Some years ago, the disease broke out in epidemic form among the cattle in the same district.

HUGHES AND TARIFF. BRISBANE, June 10

Mr IV. M. Hughes, Federal Premier, addressed a returned soldiers gathering and referred to there being danger front dumping of German goods. He said the Federal anti-dumping legislation and the Tariff Board were instruments through which German competitors would be rendered innocuous in Australia and if any uirther need arose the Government would confer greater powers on the Tariff Board to cope with such danger.