AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1923, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION FURTHER DIVIDEND. SYDNEY Alav 12. 1 ho shareholders of tho Pastoral Finance Association whose large stores •some time ago were destroyed by fiio, and wljoso inerests were subsequentL‘ taken over hv the New Zealand Loaii and Alercantile Agency, has accepted a compromise sceheme, under which the unsecured creditors will he paid a further dividend, bringing the total paid against their claims up to 17s 10s in the £. The balance of the company’s nett assets will be distributed among tho wool growers. HAWAII TENNIS TEAAI. SYDNEY May 12. Tho tennis authorities cabled that the Haw aii team, leaving Sydney in the Alakurn on 31st, will play Seattle ! r m 29th June. THE NEWCASTLE FIRE. SYDNEY, .May 12. Later reports in connection with the Newcastle lire estimate the damage at £50.009, which is covered by insurance to the extent of £-10.000.

Oilmen UNION. BRISBANE, May 12. The l’resbyterian Assembly affirmed a motion for union with the Methodist and Congregational Churches hv 31 to 26 votes. COM .'. TER CIA L R EPRESENTATTON. MELBOURNE .Alay 12. Afr Bruce explained that Air Alackinnon will bo commercial representative in America not ambassador. Diplomatic, matters would be transacted through the British Ambassador. SENTENCED TO DEATH. BRISBANE, May 12. Four members of the aborigines mission at Barambah have been sentenced to death for the murder of allot her aborigine. The evidence showed that deceased was choked to death, because it was believed that he had the power to cause the death of people by pointing a hone at them. QUEENS LA X D ELECTIONS. BRISBANE, A lay 13. After a strenuous election campaign. the State elections took place yesterday. Fine weather prevailed, and the elections passed 1 off quietly. The issue was practically confined to Labour versus anri-Laliour and Premier Theodore’s pre-election forecast that the Labour Party would retain command with a majority of not less than eight, appears from the early figures likely to be fulfilled. Though most of the returns are still incomplete, the Labour .Party appears Lo have won 38' seats; the United Party 16; and the Country Party five seats. In seven of the remaining 13 constituencies Labour is leading, while the Conn ry Party is leading in the balance. The last Parliament consisted of 37 Labour. 21 Country Party, and 11 -Nationalists. Since the dissolution the ‘‘United Party” was formed, consisting of the Nationalists and a section of tho Countvyites. Both sections of the Count ryites are, however. anti-Ln hour.