AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A CORRECTION. SYDNEY, July 7. Correction—Mr Rodgers said the balance sheet regarding the sugar position would he presented next week and definitely promised a reduction in price, but what the amount or on what date, ho was unable to say. A FARMER KILLED. SYDNEY. July 7. The hotly of David King, a farmer ot Branxton. was found near his farm partK burnt, with two wounds ori the brat! and bis skull fractured. It is surmised that King was murdered by being hit on the head with a swinglcbar of a turnout which was cmplou'il dragging timber to the fire t.u tl: ■ farm.

The body was found by his wife, lying face upwards on the fire. King leaves three children, the oldest of whom is 13. • ’ THE STOLEN YACHT. I RIHSBANE, July 7. A constable, giving evidence in the stolen yacht case said when the men i landed at Yeppon lie identified olio from a “Police Gazette” photograph. When \ Westlake was shown,the photograph he denied it was like him. All three men,declared they came from Fiji. SYDNEY. July 7. Mr Bailey, member of the N'.S.AI . Assembly, and the President of the , Central Branch of the Australian' Workers’ Union, categorically denies j the accusation made by .Mr Catts ALP. ; in thee Fderal House of Representn- j lives. ; Mr Bailey adds that hooks of the j W.A.AV. Union are audited annually by ■ the liesl auditors n Sydney and never . a. penny of the Union or Labour Party funds has been spent except in accordance with the rules of the constitution. , Other labour officials describe C-att-s attack a.s emanating from the “t oward • Castle.” made outside of Parliament, j long wool prospect. SYDNEY, July 8- j The annual report of the Australian , Long Wool Sheopbieeders’ Association states in spite of the restricted movements of long wool sheep, the Council is of opinion that the prosperity of former years will soon return, and its , popularity be again fully established. , \ PRIZE RAM. SYDNEY. July 7. j Falkiner’s Stud Merino ram was j awarded the grand championship in the unhoused ' section at the recent show. ; It has been sold primely for 12,000 guineas. j UNCHARTED coast. SYDNEY. July 8. In the course of a lecture, the President of the Royal Society stated according to the report of the Commonwealth navigation, one third of the Australian const, remained uneliartered in the modern sense of the term. The portion of the north •■onstnl chartjugs had been hut roughly delineated, ns they were left 110 years ago by explorer Flinders. The President added that had the work been done twenty years ago it would have trebly repaid itself by preventing wrecks on un—chartered rocks during that period.

AROUSE PLAGUE. (■Received this day at 9.50 n.mA SYDNEY. July 8. T ,- e mouse plague is still causing tench damage in the country districts. With the advent of the cold weather. <),,, hvao swarmed from the paddocks into the and outhouses, t farmer in Alhtiry district caught two thousand in a. barn during a single night.

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