AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

AOSTCUIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASfiOUl/• UIN ECLIPSE WEATHER. (Received this dnv at 11.30 a. hi.) SYDNEY, Sept. 21. The weather in Sydney for the eclipse is promising. Reports from the totality zone are optimistic in tone. N.S.W. POLITICS. (Received this dnv at 11.30 a.in.) SDXYKY. Sept 21. In the Assembly .Mr Dooley moved a. motion of censure in Government in view of the proposed amendment to the Arbitration Act. excluding public servants from the Court’s jurisdiction. Sir G, Fuller refused to accept the motion as a challenge and said it must take its place with private members’ business.

FEDERAL -POLITICS. MELBOURNE, Sept 21. Til the Senate, Mr Gardiner complained that Air Hughes had no right to pledge Australia to a war of bis own, but there were grave reasons why Australia should not go to war; also why Australia .should discourage the idea, that she is at the beck and call of any British Prime Minister. Touching the financial aspect, Air (Jardiner said that in the event of war, the income tax should take all over £SOO sterling to pay for the war as it went along.

Alessrsh Drake and Brockman said Gardiner’s remarkable speech represented only a small section of the noisy dissocial elements in New South Wales. The interests, not only of the Empire, but the whole of the white races was concerned in the' Turkish trouble.