AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1923, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TIM HER YARDS FIRE. SYDNEY, .Mav IS. A (iro broke out just before midnight in Laugdon and Langdon’s timber yards at Rozelle Ray. The mill was destroyed. It was a three storied tvood and iron structure and contained the most valuable plant in Australia. The damage is estimated at C 100,000. Ry (logged lighting the liremen kept the Dames I'ruin crossing, the storm water canal to the joinery mill, containing timlier arid machinery valued at many thousands. From a spectacular .standpoint Sydney lias seen nothing finer excepting the Sugar 'Company’s fire in 1018. The stir-loui-'ling neighbourhoods were illuminated almost like day.

ANZAC NAVY. SYDNEY, May ID. .\Jr. Hughes, commenting on the “Telegraph's” leader on the Ansae Navy, said the prohlem must ho approached from an Empire viewpoint, i hough there was nothing in the Washington agreement to prevent the construction of smaller craft by localities for their own defence. Ho ridiculed the suggestion to utilise Sydney as a naval base, adding Hint a. glance at the map showed that Singapore should he the base tor guarding the Pacific. M ETHOD!ST CON FEli ENO E. SYDNEY. May ID. Dr. F. H. Sugdeii Inis been appointed l’l'C'ideiil of the Methodist Conference in Ansi i.alia.

f iirir<■ ii fnion. SYDNEY, May ID. The ID esliyl erian (tenoral Assembly tarried a motion ol approval ol lie* union with tint Methodist and Congregational Churches. An amendment seeking di-approval wa- l'-ji-Ted by S't to 111.