AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE'ASSOCIATION. STRIKE ON WARSHIP. SYDNEY. Aug. 9. It is unofficially stated the crew ot 11.M.5. Geranium, which is cruising in northern waters, refused duty. They practically mutinied. This was owing to alleged hard conditions and had food. It is stated five members of the crew are being brought hack to Sydney by the cruiser Melbourne. No official statement has been matin.

COOGEE MYSTERY. SYDNEY, Aug. 9. The hearing of a charge of misprision against. Alfred Heaydon in connection with the Congee mystery has commenced and is attracting great public attention. The court was crowded. Ifcavdoii, who denied complicity in his wife's disappearance, was committed for trial.

A SCIENTIST’S WARNING. SYDNEY, Aug. 9. The Royal Society accorded the New Zealand and other visiting scientists a reception. The speeches stressed the importance of the Pan-Pacific Con Icrence.

Professor Gregory, of Yale University, an eminent geologist, is attending the conference.

Interviewed regarding Professor Hnrdman’s statement, cabled on August 5, regarding te recurrence of an ice age. Professor Gregory said lie “thought we are due for something of the kind. The last great expansion of ice occurred from 20,000 to 25,000 years ago. There have been four or five similar advances from the Poles, with warm periods intervening and another was to lie expected. When if: happens, all the highlands will get glaciated, and the world "ill undergo changes. The North American * C'oiitiiieiit-, down lo the Great Lakes, will disappear. Switzerland, Scandinavia, Scotland, and pail «l England will be wiped out, also a large part of Asia, notably Siberia. From the Antarctic side, a. large slice ol the Smith American Continent, including Chile, will ha overrun by ice. The southern portion of New Zealand will suffer, hut Australia seemingly Inis nothing at all to fear.”

NEW SOUTH WALKS MINERS. (Received this day at 11.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. in. The llchhurn Colliery Inis resumed. Redhead and Aberdnre Collieries are i lie only two mines idle at pdesenl. The chief inspector of mines has returned from Broken 11 ill and he .-ays that the complete suppression of the lire in the central mine will require a lot cl work, taking a considerable tune. TASMANIAN POLITICS. HOBART'. Aug. 10. Thirteen of the 17 members of the .Ministerialists held a caucus with the object of inducing Cabinet to institute railway reform. Premier Hayes lorestalled action by tendering the ivsignation of the ( ahinet.

AUSTRALIAN WHEAT POOL. THE COMPENSATION QUESTION. (Received this day at 12.-15 p.m.T SYDNEY. Aug. In. In the Assembly Mr llruximr denied Sir G. Fuller's statement that tin* farmers had already been paid half a million compensation for the 191fi-17 "heat damage. He said that if the Government were unable to prove he was wrong he would put up a member of his party to move an amendment to the Address-in-Rcply which would test the feeling of the House. Mr (Tteffey in reply said that the (be err,mem still had to settle up "itn tine wheat pools for other years. Every penny tine to the farmers wilt tie paid hut as the IDI (!-17 poo! has been reimbursed to the extern of EN55.75!) in excess of the amount realised bv the wheat, the Government would, deserve censure if it paid an additional half million as compensation. The* debate was adiournetl till Tuesday.

Bolilical circles regard Mr Briixner's speech as containing all eleinonis of a crisis unless Cabinet diplomacy overcomes the difficulty. AUSTRALIAN KLU Kl.t'X KLAX. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. 19. Questions were asked both in the State and Federal Barliaments regarding the reported formation of an organisation similar to the Klu Klux Khm in America and the need Tor action to prevent such, a malign organisation getting a hold.

-Vn inquiry and preventive action if necessary, were promised.

Some months ago an advertisement npixuircd in n Sydney paper calling a meeting of the Klu Klax Klan in one of the suburbs. Since then there has been various rumours, though there is nothing of a character to show any such organisation is actively in existence.

TO ERECT CREMATOR'Y . (Received this day at 12 noon';. SYDNEY, Aug. 10. At the first annual meeting of the Cremation Company the architect was instructed to call for tenders, at a cost of i'liooo, for a crematory to be erected within the Metropolis at Rookwood. THE BUFFALO FLY. (Received this day at 12 noon). | MELBOURNE, Aug. PL j A deputation from the Northern Territory asked Mr Chapman to take steps to deal with the buffalo fly which was causing greater havoc among cattle than tick or redwater. Mr Chapman promised to rotor Hi*.' matter to the Bureau of Science and I nduM rv. HEALTH IMPROVED. (Received ibis dav at P2 noon). LONDON. Aug. 9. .Mr Iton.-ir Law i- much improved in health. REVIEWED BY CLERGY. (Received this day at 12 noon). SYDNEY, August It). The Conference of Anglican Clergy in the Sydney Diocese reviewed the Hickson Mission, judgment generally being that the mission had proved a blessing to the community in many ways, not only respecting tiie remarkable cures. lint ill spiritual benefits. Though not deciding to civ-ordinate in the spiritual mission of the different- denominations of the Churches, the members of the eonferenee determined to do what they could, as individuals, in carrying torward the message of Christ's healing.

PRODUCE PRICES. MELBOURNE. Aug. PL Omits As Sd. 8s fid : barley (English) 3s Sd. -Is; potatoes Cll, £l2; onions £ t .}. C 4 IDs.