AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN ANO N Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION

federal POLITICS

MELBOURNE, Aug

Uter discussing Mr Bruce** stale- . meat there,..., the Senate endorsed the _ principle of the Imperial and ceommuc ] conferences agenda. The debate oil the Estimates was cm- . tinned in the House. Alter a motion hy Air Bruce indicatin', an all-night sitting, which would continue till noon on Saturday, an up- . roariotts scene occurred, in which several members were warned by the Speaker. Mr Hughes spoke strongly against the motion, which eventually was carried. COHt! EE MYSTERY. SYDNEY. Aug 10In the Hcaydon tttse the polite produced two statements made to themi by Henvdon, the accused. In the hist l,c declared that when lus wile hut him he understood she was going to stay With friends. She informed him she intended to nmlergo a certain He tried to dissuade her. hut his cltoits were futile, lie alleged that he did not know sin- was dead. hut. he wrote to his sister-in-law stating his wile *... dead, m order to stop eorrespondenct In the latter statement Heaydon said he visited his wife while she was m la d j„ a home. The nurse subsequently told him his wife was dead. I lie .00 so visited him and scare,l him hy saving she and lie would he hanged, ami tugiug avoidance of disgrace lor his '-My s-.i-e and also that it was lis win • absolute wish that he should do nothing to cause any disgrace for tin 1 . sake For these reasons, he dul m. report the matter to the pol.ee. He md in it see his wife after her death. » ' did not know wlutt became o. he ho - Witnesses gave evidence tli.it no.g dun told them his wife had Iclthnn. broadcasting opposed. SYDNEY, August 10. Trouble has cropped up over wireless broadcasting. The Wireless Development Association has protested to tin Postmaster-General against amateu.s I„,in-, allowed to transmit regular pm- ; gramme*, sneeches, and music; am anu"eurs have made counter protest * against the curtailment of tlu-ir ope- ., rations.