AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND X.Z. ('ABLE ASSOCIATION. HIDES MARKET. (Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) .MELBOURNE, May 11. The hides market is irregular and competition not animated. Stouts and heavies are unaltered; oilier sorts are one-eighth to a farthing lower. COURT'S DISAPPROVAL. (Received this dav at 12.-lo p.m.) - SYDNEY. May 11. At the inquiry into the wreck ol the steamer Iron Prince, the Court adjudged the seeond officer, Mr Darley, negligent, in failing to determine, accurately the ship's position and called upon him to show cause. The Court expressed strong disapproval of what appeared to he a growing tendency on the part of masters of vessels to navigate unnecessarily close to the shore.

C()VVICTS NOT I >KG KXER ATES. SYDNEY. -May 11. hi connection with the proposal by tiie Salvation Army to establish an institution where feeble-minded lawbreakers could he treated, reports Irom the v jvjtin< r surgeons id the prisons hatbem obtained. AH indicate that prisoners as a class are not degenerates or defectives, but are smart, a ert, and net lacking in ordinary intelligence. One surgeon says that alter ten \eais experience he had never come across a prisoner who would have benefited In jhe special treatment suggested. IRISH ENVOYS. (Received this day at 10.10 a.in.) SYDNEY, May HThe Board of Inquiry appointed under the Immigration Act respecting the deportation of Irish Envoys, commences it's sitting to-dai. against ciivßcn union. PERTH. May 11. The Presbyterian Assembly,, by 16 votes to 13, ’ rejected a motion lor union with the Methodist and Congregational Churches. A VETERAN DEAD. SYDNEY, May 11. Obituary.—George Holdship, aged 4.| He formerly was prominent in commercial circles in Auckland. He served in the Maori war.