AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FEDERAL POLITICS. (Received this day at 11.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 12. The Federal Ministry sat, during tie': afternoon and evening finalising ihe programme for the session opening on Wednesday. Mr Bruce announced that Tasmania had agreed to the financal proposals. He did not announce when the proposals would be brought hefoie Parliament but a reference would b" made in the Governor-GeneraPs speech. It is understood Mr Bruce is determined not to go Lack on the decision not. to leave Australia while t4ie session is sitting, unless Government is guaranteed immunity from attack during lus absence. THE LOST THE VERSA. SYDNEY. June 12. The Trevenn wirelessed that a. boat was sighted at night time that appears to he a. gig. They are continuing the search until forced to give up. (Received this day at 12.45 p.nl.) SYDNEY. June 12. There is some doubt whether the latest Trevessa message reiers to a boat pieviously cabled on the 7th. The message adds that no boat gear was found among the wreckage. It is argued here that the finding of the gig possesses no great significance, as to the fate of the crew. It is unlikely the gig would he in use. The probability is that when the Trevessa took her last dive, the gig broke her lashings and drifted away. LABOUR CONFER ENf E. (Received this day at 1 2. In p.m.i SYDNEY. June 12. The Labour Conference approved the abolition of pre-electioii'.i ballots and appointed a (ommiltee to devise a substitute scheme. I here was considerable discussion eu the question cl the standing of the ( party, cu*atetl by the adoption of a resolution in favour of its afliliatiai with the Australian Labour Party. Chairman Wdhs ruled that from the LulLur stand point, the Communist Party had ceased to exist as an independent Party. The conference by vote upheld this ruling. Previously Mr M illis had pointed out that the proposed admision of Communists simply meant that such a. proposal was to he submitted to the next conference. Pending that, the position had not been altered, the Conference having expressed an opinion on the principle only.

SCALDED TO DEATH. ■SYDNEY. June 12. V blow-off pipe underground at the (’a reoar freezing works split en the underneath side for ten inches, and a stream of steam and water at a pressure of 150 pounds to the inch spin ted forth, making an excavation six feet in length, three wide, and two deep. Stanley Cowan when endeavouring to locate the valve .handle to shut ofl the cock, fell into t.ie excavation containing hot mud and was scalded to the neck. He was taken to the hospital where he died last night. Charles Arnold (engineer) also fell into the hole and Was severely scalded.