AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1923, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

4CSTP.AI.IAN AND N Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION SYDNEY WEATHER. 'Received this day at 8 a.tn.) SYDNEY. Aug. 13. The thermometer overnight touched 41.8. the second lowest this winter, being .4 higher than July 22nd. TRUNK TRAGEDY. SYDNEY. Aug. 13. Four persons were charged in connection with the Trunk tragedy, and remanded till 3rd. September. The Coroner’s inquiry will he held in the interim. WRECKAGE FOUND. (Received this dnv at 11.10 n.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. 14. Quantities of wreckage have been washed ashore on the North Coast, believed to he from the Sumatra. ®

POLITICAL. HOBART, Aug. 14. Mr J. C. Newton has been elected Leader of the National Party in place of Hayes, resigned. FEDERAL POLITICS. (Received this dav at 11.45 a.:n.) MELBOURNE, Aug. It Jn tlie House of Representatives, an amending bill abolishing taxation on crown leaseholders was read a first time, after the Labour Party had moved an amendment that the motion be withdrawn and that immediate action bv taken to collect the land tax due on crown leases.

An amending hill authorising the Government to continue a section of tho War Precautions Repeal Act, and giving control over operations of foreign corporations until the end of next vear, was also read a first time.

A measure was introduced providing for advances to settlers for the purchase of wire netting for which purpose a quarter of a million pounds will be appropriated from revenue.

PAN-PACIF 1C ( (INFERKNCE. MELBOURNE, Aug. 11 The pan-Pacifie Conference has opened. Sir David Masson in a presidential address, sai.l the delegates immediate task was to discuss scientific problems which were of special interest in the Pacific area, and to lay down plans for future research.