AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TO SCRAP SUBMARINES. SYDNEY, June I. The naval authorities are towing five submarines from Westernport to Cockatoo Island with the strong possibility of their being scrapped. The vessels have been out cf commission since last year. IRISH ENVOYS. (Received this dav at 11.45 a.in.) MELBOURNE, June 1. Tho High Court will give its decision to-day in the Irish Envoys case.

FROZEN MEAT CONTRACT. MELBOURNE, .June 1. .Mr Chapman announced Tin.mas Borthwick Ltd., lias again secured the British Army frozen meat contiact. The July-December contract will absorb twenty thousand first quality bullocks. HIDES SALE. MELBOURNE. June 1. At the hides sale bidding lacked spirit, and values for stouts, heavies and medium weights declined a halfpenny. Other sorts were par to a farthing lower. commercial. MELBOURNE, June 1. Potatoes £9 os to WO; onions £1 to £1 ss. THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 1. Nir Janies Mitchell. Premier of Westralia. speaking at the Millions Cluii, described Westralia as the land of opportunity for settlers. The land nearly all •belonged to the Crown, only about twenty million acres having Leon sold. The climate was the finest in Australia am! Westralia produced mere gold than till the other States. The timber industry was the largest in the Cnmmnliwealt h. and Westralia supplied eighty per cent of the world's sandalwood i ratio. Sir James added: ‘‘Winn 1 tell you that this is all done by the hundred thousand working men. ymi wonder how we do it. but we arc like the man in Heaven who said, they all had to work hard there because there were so lew of them to do it.

THE t out ORAN CASE. BRISBANE. June 1. In the Corcoran ease. Sister Augustine, who had charge of the operation on plaintiff, gave evidence to the idled that the instruments were all accounted lor alter the operation, and so (alas was humanly possibly m judge, in ue were missing.