AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SHOW FIGURES. SYDNEY, March 31. The Show attendance was 105,000, a decrease of five thousand on 1922 figures. The authorities attribute the decrease to the heat wave. H.M.S. CHATHAM. MELBOURNE March 31. 11.M.5. Chatham was visited by many people. The < tfiters were entertained l>.v the (Lnerncr-Gciieral. AUSTRALIA’S PEOPLE. MELBOURNE. March 31. The population of the (Mminonwctdcli at the end of 1022, totalled 5,031.552. the excess of births ever deaths being 80,185 and arrivals over departures 38,188. LABOR RESOLVES .MELBOURNE, Mat.’n 31. The Labour Conference rejected a motion barring Parliamentarian, from the Executive and adopted a motion providing that tit. least three country representatives be adoiLol places on Execm i ve. NEARLY WRECKED SYDNEY. April 2. The tour-master barque ".I. and T. Dollar,the largest sailing ve-scl that ev: r entered Sydney carrying a cargo of 2.(i'Kl.OiM feet of lumber from America, had a narrow escape from being wrecked oil the heads. Ihe towrope .-napped in a heavy s,,a. ami the big .slot) was. driven to within a cable’s length of the rocks before the tug secured a new hold. Only the skill til handling of the ship by the barque’s captain, and the plucky work ol the tug master averted a disaster. QUESTION OK I’REE SPEECH. SYDNEY. April 2. A meeting was belli in Sydney Domain under the auspices, oi Protestant Bodies anti the Orange Lodge. It passed a motion ot protest against the inaction of the Commonwealth Government in respect to the Irish Republic and envoys to Australia. An opposition meeting, however, was convened on the Domain by the Irish .Sell-Deter-mination League and it protcMeii against the attempt made to stillc Dee speech. SHOW CROWDS. (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) SYDNEY. April 3. The Show attendance on Monday was 132,C00 which is ten thousand more than in 1022. The nggregte to date is ■151,700 against 435.000 for the corresponding period last year. fI.M.S. CHATHAM. MELBOURNE. March 8. H.M.S. Chatham has sailed for Hobart. The Labour Congress affirmed the principle of a Motherhood Endowment, and also instructed the Executive to prepare a definite .statement of Labour's attitude towards immigration. IRISH ENVOYS. (Received this day at 0.-15 a.m.) MELBOURNE. April 3. The Irish Envoys speaking at Richmond, said the Free State was being bep- alive by force. *So long as it possessed big guns, little guns would remain in the hands of the Republicans. O’Kelly said lie despised the clamour for the deportation of himself and Father O’Fhmmigun. also the attack h\ a Catholic newspaper, which allied itself with the (Range I.odge and Protestant Federation.