AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1922, Page 3

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HULL TO STAND TRIAL,

MELBOURNE, June 27. Thu Magisterial hearing of the ease against the youth Clifford Hull has oom'.wded. Hull on June 10, while weekly wages totalling £340 were being arranged by several young women in an office at Clunes Knitting Mill entered with a lille and presented the weapon at the clerks. He erica “Don’t resist!” He took one hundred pounds and decamped. Several of the employees and townsfolk pa - nned him. whereupon the youtli. slid denlv turned and fired into the group. No one was hit. Later on, howev the robber issued a manifesto to the residents, in which he described himself ns a bushranger, and announced in terms fo bravado, that he would not molest women, girls or children, or unarmed men, who did not hinder him in Ids progress. Hull wa s captured a day or two later. The youth was to-div committed for trial.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY , MELBOURNE, June 27. | Tlic Victorian State Full Court t>\ a j mjnjority decision, has declared lie Melbourne City Council’s by-law I'm the regulation of street processions illegal. The application to the Court wns mode by Father Barry (as cabled on the fifth of April) when the City Council tried to prosecute him and other for taking part in the last St Patrick’s Day Procession in Melbourne which was held despite the Council’s attempted prohibition.

SUTLER. V. STEAMER. MELBOURNE, .Tune 27. Six sailing ships loading for European ports are causing oversea steamship owners concern, as l>eing mainly foreign owned and manned by seamen paid considerably less than Australian and British rates. ' The vessels are loading cargoes at rates much below those fixed for steamers. Shippers arc paying £IO,(XX) freight to London, whereas under the rates fixed foi steamer freights they would have to pay £16,000. Tile sailers are living rushed hv shippers

LAIWJ’s RAY DISPUTE. SYDNEY, Juno 28. It is rumoured that thoro is a rlifferonce of opinion botweon the Executive of the Seamen’s Union and the Sydney braneh regarding tlie hold up of HrLargs’ Bay and that Mr Walsh (Pro sklent. of the Union) does not consider the attitude of the braneh to the Com-

monwealth Line politic, and is coniine to Sydney to act ns peace maker. Colour is lent to this bv the fact that Mr Walsh .'irrivps in Sydney on Thursday.

N.S.W, POLITICS. SVDXKV, June 27. The Premier, the Minister of Lands, and Sir Joseph C'nrruthers. conferred on the Oovermnent’s policy' of land development as i* nMeets private ustntos, wit,h representatives of the Graziers’, the “.Million Farms (’InI).” the Primary Producers’ (Tiimi, the Cimmher of Commerce and leading hanks. Sir J. Fuller, the conlerence .‘ait! he would not discuss whether the private lands should he put to better use. or whether the Crown lands or private lands should ho dealt with first. The alternatives were voluntary subdivision and compulsory . subdivision. The Government would prefer to help the ownersof land to subdivide rather than resort to compulsion, but the Cabinet would he as firm as a rock in dninir something to <o*{ men settled on the. land. It would not allow selfish private interests to stand in the way of the public good. The conference proceeded to discuss the proposals in an endeavour to present a satislaetoi v scheme to the Gov-

MINERS DANGERS. SYDNEY.. June 27. 'Hip Tei-hniVt-l Commission of Inquiry appointed to invest Late tin- occurrences of industrial diseases at Broken llill Mines has submitted its repot’;, to the idvernitietil. alter in; du ally examining all pci-sons employed in the mines there. \ The report states tint a chemical analyses of the longs removed from dead ii iners had shown the presence of lead. zinc. man cinese and silicon, whenever the men had worked over ten vea’-s in the Broken Mill mines. The Commission recommends _ that poisoning hv lead lie made a notifiable disease; that compensation We paid wCeklv to all men certified hv medical authority to he suffering from any .ailment due to lend; and that v. hen the employee is excluded from the industry through disabilities caused by lead; the oomrnny should pay him coinpensntioii to enable him to obtain a, new occupation.

MR HUGHEB’ THREAT. (Received this (lav at 10.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE. June 29. Mr Hughes threatens to lay up all the Commonwealth vessels, unless the Union officials agree t.o the management retaining control, lie states the Elliotts must choose l -'twcen industrial crucifixion in order to serve Walsh’s purpose and pander to his insatiable vanity and ambition, or sweep him and Id; like, neck and crop out of the Union.

A MOTION REJECTED. MELBOURNE. Tune 29. The Union Congress rejected a motion by 76 to 70. seeking the reinstatement of Dwver Gray as editor ol the Hobart “World,” cabled on 15th March.

A 1 STIIA fJ AN HER lIES ENT ATI VE. MELBOURNE, June 29. The Governor General’s speech in the Moils > of Representatives included a statement that the Government had definitely decided to appoint a permanent Commissioner in Washington. FEDER AL POLITICS. MELBOURNE June 29. The Governor-General’s speech nien-‘t-ned that negotiations were progressing with New Zealand and Canada fictile conclusion of reciprocal tariff arrangements. ft stated that experience had proved the necessity for the continuous representation d Australia in United States, therefore it yvas proposed to appoint an Australian Commissioner.

LATE MR. TUDOR. MELBOURNE. June 29 Mr Hughes moved the House’s sincere regret at the d-’atli of Mr Tudor. After tributes by the various party leaders, the House adjourned till follorving day as a mark of respect tq Lis memory.