AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

A U.-TIIA MAN AMI N.Z. OAHI.K ♦SSOI.IA'I lON

VICTORIAN ASSEMBLY. MF.I.BOURNE, Feh. 13. The Cabinet met and discussed preliminary business. It decided that the House should meet on February AMONG HOSTILE BLACKS. BRISBANE. Feb. lii Advices It',m Darwin Mate a message lias been received I rum Miss Matthews, a missionary who is the only white person on Goulburn Island, asking for assistance, as she is threatened by hostile natives. The message which took five days in transit, was received last Thursday, but the authorities refused to send help until

authorised from Melbourne. To-ditv ;i. In ii 11 (* 1 1 with an armed part y wii < despatched. Ii will lalc<• lour days to ren eh tin' island. A X.Z. I’OKT I? KTI'IIXS. d?c< civi'd this dav at lit n.m.l SYDNEY.' February 11. Dorn Wilcox, otherwise .Madame Llamelius, autlt or and artist, has arrived mi route for Xew Zealand, the hirihland of herself and her poetry. OVERSEAS FREdd-ITS. ■'Recoiled this dav at ll.,'if) n.0i.l SYDXKY. Keh 11. The Oc. anie. Commonwealth and Dominion lines are rodmimj; freiolits to the Atlantic Coast on hides, skins and tallow. Full details are not available at p-i’fsf-lit. hut it is understood the reduction mi skins will he onc-eiojnh ol a penny, makino I ;[d pound. 'I his ia result of an njrrcoment he-tween the Commonwealth and Confereiiee lines, topra fr. iohts to Sydney and Knilcd Ixiliod.oin are redueed by S • ltd per ton. ami are now (its lid

RECORD TiliOK'KM. SYP.VKV. February 11. Nonnaii Smith in a motor cur, drove from Melbourne fo Sydney in fourteen hours twenty-eight minutes, breaking by fifteen minutes, the record established in January by S. Ottoway. AN' A I’OI.OGV AIAPF.. SYDNEY February 1-1. ' The New South AYales Tennis Asso--1 ciation have accepted the apology from Anderson, who argued wiih (lie umpire for foot-l’aulting him in the recent match, but they have sent Anderson a strongly worded letter remonstrating with him for objecting to new halls when ordered by the umpire in the match against Patterson, adding that the incident had regrettable effects on Victorian representation at the present carnival. ArTtl'.fßOrPXK. Feb. 11. The Federal Cabinet have decided to hold a short session and then adjourn till June to enable a programme to be framed. Mr Mince fPresidentl. replying to Mr Harwell said bis remarks would not tend to promote a big national -spirit which the war fostered. Mr Bruce denies ATr Prat ten was dropped as a result of a promise to Mr AY. FT. Hughes, who resigned unconditionally.

VAT?I!A TRAGEDY. 'Received this dnv at 11.30 a.m 1 SYDNEY. February, If. Thomas Cook, a farmer niifl liorso trainer, has been arrested in oonnection with the Yarrn tragedy, and is charged with forging a telegram to Afr Coughlin.