AUSTRALIAN

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

CHEQUE BETTING

MELBOURNE. July 13

The cheque betting test ease (cabled on June 7th) has commenced. The executors in the estate of the late Richard Garland have applied for leave to enter a first judgment against Herbert Englebert, bookmaker, for the ’recovery of £405, alleged to have been paid by Garland by cheque in settlement Of hp'ltilig transactions. IX J F NTT lON PROCEEDINGS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 11. Tiie Coal Miners Federation have wi'lulrawn injunction proceedings against the coal tribunal cabled oil 2,'lrd and 2711 i June, as no good purpose would he served liy spending the Union’s funds in testing the validity of the 1 law. AN APPOINTMENT. SYGnEY, July 11. Doctor E. TV. Eerguson, a native of New Zealand, has been elected President of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. THE ORCHESTRA. j SYDNEY, July 14. | A proposal is on font to convert the j oichestra into a symphony orchestra, which will he self supporting, with I Skalski as organiser and conductor, j without remuneration, till it is a ! financial success. Skalski outlined a ■ scheme by which lie -invites suhscrip- , liens for two lengthy series of coil- I certs of both popular and classical music. The subscription for the former is £4 nor annum and the latter £3. . CAW NET DISSENSION. i SYDNEY. July 14. !

Trouble is brewing in tlm Cabinet over the lands polity. It is understood Cabinet is divided over .Mr Carrutliers land settlement scheme, particularly regarding .Murray liver lands, ab.mt ’v! i. !i it is stal'-d an expert officer's iujvers.- leport was suppressed. It is considered likely that trouble may terminate in the resignation of Mr Carrutliers. Colour is lent to the suggestion by a speech by Mr Weaver 'Nationalist) on the censure motion, wli. n he stated that the sooner Air ( : rrntliers got cut of tlm Ministry, t - . • let tor it would lie for the party. TH E HOKXSBY AI I'll dun. fllceeived this day ;t lb of) a.m.) SYDNEY, duly 14. The police have been inundated with leitteis containing theories regarding the Hornsby murder. Spiritualists and clairvoyants made many suggestions in respect to the crime, and many people have written .sto.ting they bad seen the murder re-enacted, and even sketches of the murderer have been forwarded.

YACHT THIEVES. BHISBANE. July 13. | Westlake. Mills and Smith were j dimmed rt Bocklianipton Court with , stealing the yacht ltnota and coni eased j to Westlake, who was lead- j er of the exploit, in a statement, said ! he had been at sea since the age of 13.1 Describing the voyage from Auckland, ! lie said tile most thrilling part was a. I couple i)f days spent in the Great Bar- i rier Beef. They were in the greatest j dangr as tlie.V had only to get a. touch. I to go to the bottom. He kept both Ins companions on deck for thirteen hours j in the afternoon and night, tacking i about in different directions, avoiding reefs At two in the morning. Mil's ; was exhausted and had to turn in. The | others kept on deck until daylight, ami J then had a hurried meal in the cabin j and returned to deck. At daybreak , they passed a, reef twenty feet astern , and' saw another three hundred yards , to windward. Throughout tile day it was nothing, hut ceaseless \vntolling, and in the afternoon they lust missed . striking a reef, eight miles in extent - After being forty-eight hours without sleep they negotiated the remaining 1 BRISBANE, July H. In the yacht ease, a statement signed j hv Mills produced in Court, stated ; he joined the Baota at Westlake’s in- | vitation. Smith afterwards joined the j yacht which was repainted. After lonv- j ing Auckland, they went to Whitianga. I Mercury Bay, where they robbed a store | security a stock of provisions, clothing and tobacco. Westlake then told his * companions that he had stolen tho yacht and intended to sitil for South America and engage in fishing. The police gave evidence that Westlake first refused to give them a statement, hut afterwards made verbal statements, taking the whole blame on himself. He added that if Ire had not taken the yacht off the New Zealand Coast, they could not have done anything to him, as he had her leased for two years. •» On five charges of stealing the yacht and stealing provisions from the store, the men were remanded to Brisbane, to await the arrival of the New Zealand police escort.