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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SHIP SUBSIDY. MELBOURNE, May 29. A deputation asked Air Chapman to subsidise shipping services to Chinese and Indian ports and Singapore. Mr Chapman stated Air Bruce was favourable to Australia securing eastern markets and the Commonwealth were, orepared to pay for it, although a large sum was involved. A CHILD AIL’R DERED. SYDNEY, May 29. Tho body of Pcrcival Carratt. aged live, was found in some scrub near his parents’ residence, at Arncliffe. Death had been caused by smothering. The boy had been sent on an errand to a sliop a short distance from home, and his prolonged absence caused a search tube made, when the body was discovered. The police state that there is no doubt the child was taken to the spot and asphyxiated by the pressure of a hand round its throat. IRISH ENVOYS. MELBOURNE, May 29.

In the High Court, the Irish Republican envoys applied for a motion restraining the Board of Inquiry from acting further, counsel for the Commonwealth Government having announced that the Government had no objection to such an application being now made. MURDER CHARGE. (Received tbps day at 11.45 n.m.) SYDNEY, Alav 30. A youth, eighteen years of age, has been uricstod and charged with the murder of a buy named Carratt. hospitals CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, Alav 30. Representatives of the city and country hospitals assembled, at the invitation of the Chief Secretary, to devise a scheme lor the reorganisation of the conduct of hospitals. A comprehensive report on the management of New Zealand hospitals was submitted to the conference by Doctor Aimstrong. as was also a report on the hospitals in Victoria anil South Australia. The latter report showed that the management v.as based on the system which was largely in use in New Zealand. The conference adjourned until Wednesday.

RESOLUTION RESCINDED. SYDNEY. May 33. The City Council resmuiied a resolution giving preferenei io British and Australian-made motor cycles. It is contended that since Inrcign competition was discouraged the British manufacturers took advantage ol the preference by an increase in price. WOOL SALES. BRISBANE. May 30. The wool sales have opened and 1d,050 bales were catalogued. The selections are somewhat better than at previous sales, and prices ranged from live to ten per cent, higher, Germany securing the hulk of firings. .METHODIST CONFERENCE CONC LURKS. ADELAIDE. .May 30.

The Methodist Conference has < oncluded. A lesohitien was carried commending the League of Nations as a likely means of ensuring the peace ol the world. THE TAXATION AGREEMENT. (Received this day nt 11.15 a.m.) -MELBOURNE, May 30. At a conference last night on the taxation agicemcut, it was endorsed that Ihe tax to be levied by the C-. :n nionwealih on companies was ml to exceed 2s lid in the pound, the per capita payments to cease, the States to forego interest on transferred properties. and abandon portion of the field of company taxation.

It js estimated that the Commonwealth will he called on to sacrifice 1 1,430,000 under the rearrangement, which was agiccd to for five years. Tho Commonwealth, by retrenchment expects to save £400.000 per annum on administration.

The eouferrme agreed to the principle defining the Federal and State industries, but no finality was reached on the question which industries will lie Federal and which will he State.

COM Aim ED FOR TRIAL. (Received this day at 12.45 p.m.) \I.HL BOX’ RN K, -Ainy 3d. 1 [alley (cabled on the 23rd). has been committed fur trial on a charge of horse killing. H is stated that the accused made a signed confession, admitting that he killed a number of animals, lie however, pleaded not guilty.

A DOCTOR’S NEGLIGENCE. (Received this day at 12. Li p.m.i THUS BANE, May 33. The Supreme Court is hearing a ease in which Annie Corcoran is claiming £2.-503 damages and £333 as expenses from Lilliam Cooper, a qualified medical practitioner, for alleged negligence and unskilfulness during an operation performed at the Mater Misericordia. Hospital in 1318, hv allowing to remain in the abdomen, a pair, or portion of a pair of forceps. According to the evidence, it was owing to continued ill-health that plaintiff underwent a second operation in the Newcastle Hospital in July. 1322. when Doctor Niekson removed a pair of artery forceps from Corcoran’s bowels. The portion of the handle of one flange was missing, which might have fretted away, or the instrument might have been damaged before it was introduced. Dr Niekson -toted that no one could find fault with live operation porlurmed hv the defendant according to the hospital records which showed that cverv care had been taxon. The defence was a general denial ot noTh-once or unskilfulness. Dr "Cooper, who has had thirty years operating experience, gave evidence tithe effect that the nurses wlm assisted in the operation were capable and exceed, nglv careful. He declared that > was imp- sihle that the forceps could be left in the cavity at the time ot tiloperation. , . Counsel for the defence stated tint evidence would he forthcoming that the forceps produced had never been m the Mater Hospital.