AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION THE COOGEE MURDER. SYDNEY, -August 1. The police have discovered a. portion of the remains of a human body buried under a lime deposit in a garage in the city. It is believed to be part of the body of Airs Heaydon. Further developments are expected shortly.

VICTORIAN FLOODS. ME I.ISOERNE, Aug. 1. The floods in Charlton have rendered many families homeless. Relief trains have been despatched with assistance limits are being used in till: streets of Rochester. The Adelaide n.i Melbourne express was derailed through the collapse of a culvert near Olenon by. Although the train was travelling at thirty miles an hour, with one hundred passengers aboard, no casualties are reported. TAIPFRJAL POLICY. VARIETY OF VIEWS. MELBOURNE. August 1. [n the Federal House of Representatives, there was a rank and file discussion on Premier Bruce’s Imperial Conference statement. The debate disclosed ii great variety of views. Blackley urged the importance of the reparations s-etUcmom. and said the first action of the Imperial Conference should l.e call im international conference to discus's the Ruhr crisis.

Air .Mann put in a plea for free trade, instead of the suggested Imperial preferences, declaring that Australia could only take her place among the nations hv recognising the i rineiple of tlie interchange of commerce between nations.

Air Brennan had a tilt at the Empiie defence proposals, lie said it was belter that .Australia Hioidd pursue a peaceful policy, even to the point of ci uoilixioi). rather than to associate her.-ell in the wars of depredation, and to gain victories of migi.l- over right, such as have keen seen on the other side of the inn Id,

Air Seidlin declined that Air Bruce's | oliev would disintegrate the British Empire. The silken ties of kinship had endured lor many years, and he hoped licit they would continue to endure, growing stronger with time. Democracy would endure these silken ties, but it would not endure the iron bands of Impel i'i!i-in .

I AIM KJ RATION I.ABOFR SOPGHT. ADELAIDE. Aug. I. A deputation representing the various Employers’ Associations waited on the Premier. Air Harwell, and complained of there being a shortage of skilled labour. They suggested that sufficient artisans be brought from England to supply tin* shortage, under all immigration scheme. They abo advocated shorter terms of apprenticeship. They declared absurd wages v.ere paid to hoys as unskilled labourers, uhi 'li operated against their binding themselves for long terms. The Premier. Alt' Harwell, was sympathetic ill his reply, but said he doubted if sufficient skilled men would he obtainable in Britain, where there was a shortage also.

BRITISH SOFXDNESS. (Received this dav at 11. Id a.m.) SYDNEY. Aug. 2. Responding to the citizens welcome home greeting. Sir Geo. Fuller said Britain is absolutely sound financially. By her payments of interest and debts she has set an example to the world. All the talk of the linaneial centre shilling from London to New York is without Inundation.

( OAL SITI’LIE-L SYDNEY. Aug. 2

Following the coal disputes in the northern field.-, during June a large tonnage of coal was placed at the Tyne and freights obtained at 25, per ton for Adelaide ami Melbourne, ft is understood at least eight cargoes, aggre-

gating forty thousand tons, are oil route to Australia. Cargoes are also being shipped to Java, while recently vessels sailed from Newcastle for Java without any coal shipment.

SPEECH CONSIDERED. SYDNEY, August 1. The New South Wales Stale ("abillet considered the contents of the Governor’s speech. It is understood land settlement matters will form the most important section. Reference will also ho made to amendments to the Railway Ait, alteration of marriage laws and industrial insurance legislation.

IIKBBUBX MINK DISPUTE. .SYDNEY, August 1

All the mines excel t four in the northern fields are now working, but it is expected that the llebburn dispute will again idle the whole lie.'d.

FKDERAI. POLITICS. MELBOURNE. August 2

In the House of Repiesentative.,. Mr Bruce re; lying in (he Imperial Conlerence debate said ho had never listened to a di,ei:s,inu with stleh miscoueoptinn of the is,nt'.-. involved. The opposition endeavoured to make the isue one of war or ] once. His purpose v.;(, to strive ior peace and one method was hv pressing claims at a eniitcreme for the League of Nations. The world's I eace largely depended on Britain ,s foreign policy, yet Labour did not want; to participate, though professing love for their fellow man. Instead, it preferred the selfish policy of isolation. He advocated an Empiie defence scheme because it was practical. Australia must he defended, hut the country would h' hopelessly overburdened unless the scheme were formulate.l in eonjunction with another power. Referring to Ruhr and reparations. Mr Ilrtit-e said for France to remain in Ruhr would he | erpel rating another Alsace-Lorraine, which would he <* great tragedy. He agiee.l with Mr Baldwin that Germany snnulil make ro-I-nation in full. The motion to print the Imperial agenda paper was carrion on the voices.

WIRELESS TF.I.KIMIOXY. (Received this dav at It.lit a.m.) SYDNEY. Aug. 2. A demonstration of wireless telephony was given at Government llo’i'C last night to celebrate t::o tuaiigui.t* non ~f the broadcasting regulations. Mr l-'isk. in an addre-s on the possibilities of hrnudeasiing, -aid in a tew months a singer 'in Sydney could Ik' heard till over Australia more distinctly than by the people listening in a hull.

NEW COUNCILLORS. SYDNEY, Aug. 2

Cab-net propo-e, appointing several new Legislative Councillor, before the opening of Parliament on the 7th. sir G. Fuller intimated the reform of the Legislative Council would ho dealt with during the coming session, so that the number would fluctuate from fifty to sixty-live, aml tenure for a term would he substituted for life membership.