AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION, STEAMER FOUNDERS'. FREMANTLE, June 5. The Trovossa was formerly German owned. Site was purchased bv Haiti Steamship Company and left Port Pirie on May 15th for the United Kingdom, full of a cargo ol concentrates shipped !>v Broken Ilill Company, it is undestood the steamer carried a crew of forty-three all told, consisting of thirty-one Britishers and twelve coloured firemen. The position at the time of foundering was estimated at over two thousand miles tinm Fremantle, on the direct trade route to lVriin. The latest report states the crew hail taken to the bouts. labor conference. (Received this dav at 11.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, June -1. The Labour Conference spent the day and evening sessions discussing Mr Dooley’s expulsion and I lit* matter of ballot boxes with sliding panels. No finality was arrived at in regard to either issue, but the coufeieuce adopted portion of the report of the minority of the executive endorsing the DooleyCharlton circular, which was published in December, and which urged a general clean up of the movement. A division resulted 18/ to 110. and is icgarded as an indication *>f Mr Dooley's subsequent reinstatement in tin* movement when the debate is continued. Fly nos. the principal accuser of IVo'cv refused to attend the conference to reiterate his charges.

WELCOME RAIN. SYDNEY. June I. Widespread rain is reported, embracing tlu* eastern half of Australia from Port Darwin to F.uchi near the boundary of Smith and West: Austialia in t!’o Son.ill. HORSES ELECTROCUTED. SYDNEY, June I. Two trotting horses, Charlock and Sadowealad, while exercising iu a street in Newcastle, stopped on a liw* wire and were electrocuted. The owner, A. C. Edwards, was thrown violenlv to tlu* ground and navimvly escaped death. PRICE OF BUTTER. BRISBANE, June I. The wholesale price of butler is reclined from 2s to Is 9d per pound, to meet competition from South Adelaide.