AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. 'EMPIRE DISPLAY. (Roceived this dav at 11.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, 'May 23. A large number of city retail simps aro responding to the appeal by the Retail 'Traders Association to make, a special display during Empire week commencing on the twenty-fourth, of goods manufactured within the Empire. GRAZIERS CONGRESS (Received this dav at 11.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 23. The annual conference of graziers passed a resolution urging the advisability of continuing tue organisation on similar lines to Bawra, to give full protection to the interests of wool growers. Resolutions were also carried urging the abolition of the dralt allowance. The President, Doctor Ka, ter, in the course of an address said as 'a result of {ho shearing fight with this Australian Workers Union, approximately £303,000 sterling was saved for the industry in New South Wales Victoria,' and Tasmania. NAVIGATION ACT. BRISBANE. May 22. Tile Australian Congress of Chain! cs of Commerce passed a resolution in favour of an amendment of the Navigation Act to enable persons to travel on British overseas steamers between Australian ports. PREMIERS CONFER. MELBOURNE, May 22. The Premiers Conference agreed I ■> the taxation proposal cabled uu the 22ml which rejects the proposal Inr Federal taxation over .£2OOO. Ihe Premiers also rejected a uniform gauge proposal involving the construction ot a 4s S.ld gauge from Port Augusta to Hay and a proposed tribunal to define which were Federal and which were State industries. GRAZIERS DKCISION. (Received this dav at 11.45 a.m.) /SYDNEY, Ma.v 23. Tho Grazier’s decision refers to the pound per hundred weight dralt allowance on wool. j MELBOURNE, .May 23. The Premier’s resolution regarding income tax includes a State offer to pay the Commonwealth the surplus icvenuo received under such arrangement. TO ASSIST IMMIGRANTS. ADELAIDE, May 23. The Methodist General Conference endorsed The Church assisting Metnodist immigrants on lines of the A uung Men’s Christian Association group scheme. . KELLY’S TRIAL. CUT UP THE BODY.

(Received this day at 12.-15 p.m.) MELBOURNE, -May 23. At the trial of Kelly, evidence was given by Oliver, a prisoner in the Melbourne gaol, that Kelly, while in gaol, told him he got Mrs Overall to make a will under the influence of chink. He then gave her a spoonful of arsenate of lead daily, til! her death. He then cut up ttle body and buried a portion and threw the rest into the Yarra. The only mistake he made was that ho had buried a portion of the clothing. Another prisoner. Kennedy, gave evidence that while Kelly was in gaol he confessed that he killed Mrs Overall and disposed of the body. Kellv, who gave his name ns O'Keefe in giving evidence on his own behalf, said that Overall drank heavily, lie said to her that he would find her dead some lav. She replied : “If you do cremate me. keep my remains on the place and don’t tell anyone when I died ” Ho remembered her request and’ he rolled the body in blankets and burned it. He then put the ashes m n bnv and dropped it into the Terra, ire denied the alleged conversations with Oliver and Kennedy. The case is unfinished.