AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1923, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION PROHIBITION AND COMPENSATION.

SYDNEY. Sept. 21. The Political Council of the Interim tional Older of Good Templar: passed resolution expressing indignation at tin action of Air l.ey. .Minister tor Justice

in persisting in bracketing prohibition and compensation in the proposed referendum. .N movement is on font to endeavour to separate both questions. TRADE WITH THE FAST. SYDNEY. Sept. 24. Air Sheaf, Australian Trade Commissioner in the East, says that the market for fresh fruit would he an easy proposition when cold storage Weights were available, and cold storage plants established at the ports. There were no religious prejudices to overcome as

with meat. INSTINCT OF ANIMALS. SYDNEY. Sept. 24. A. S. Lesuenf, Director of the Zoological Gardens, in a lecture, said that the instinct in an animal was really thought, and making an allowance tor the smallness of the animal mind, there was no difference, temperamentally, between human beings ami annuals. . Ah actions of the Chimpanzee at the Zoo showed thought. No animal showed a great range of thought. SYDNEY HARBOUR HIM DOE. S'iDXEi. He pi. ‘-'I ■ Application has been made to the Commonwealth foi* the removal of the duty on imported materials for the Sydney harbour bridge. Air Chapman and members of the federal Cabinet are -aid to be sympathetic as in such a case, it is believed, no purpose would lie served by taxing the public when the materials are not available locally. Such an exemption would make a big reduction in the cost ot construction and enable tenderers to quote at a London price.

j REDISTRIBUTION OF heath. i PERTH. Sept. 21. : The Assembly read a second time, by 'twenty-eight rotes to fourteen, the redistribution of Seats Bill, reducing the - Goldfields seats by live and adding three to the metropolis and two to the agricultural districts. | JAPS BARRED. ) SYDNEY. Sept. 24. i The High Court decided that a Japanese born in Japan was a native of that country and therefore he was debarred from enrolment under the ; electoral laws of the Commonwealth. i j COOGEE INQUEST VERDICT. SYDNEY, September 24. The coroner lias delivered his finding in toe Coogee mystery ease. He found that the bones found in the garage at I Glebe were a portion of the body of j Airs Heaydon: that she died as the reI suit-of an illegal operation, performed j bv Airs Taylor (since dead) : that Mrs i Taylor feloniously and maliciously i nmredred her; and that after the eomI mitting of the said offence, Alfred Heaydon, deceased's husband, did aid i and abet her in the commission therc- : of. j The coroner stated that he wflS satistied that- Heaydon knew of, and assenti oil to the operation. He committed ! him for trial as an accessary before the | fact.

| WIDESPREAD STOP.AI DA At AGE. SYDNEY, September 24. | Telegraphic communication is practii rally normal again. Belated reports from southern States show the gale was , general, but they escaped mere lightly , than New South Wales. In A ictorin j heavy snow and hail accompanied the I gale in some districts, while in Tasinanlia heavy rain fell. Both States report I considerable property damage. | At Adelaide the flood was one of the worst, over experienced. The Torrens, Sturt, and other rivers rose very rapidly in various low-lying areas. In the | metropolitan and suburban areas the i water flowed inside streets of houses 'to a considerable depth. The Torrens j River reached a record height. Luckily

it subsided rapidly, after the sluice gates were opened. The worst damage was done round Alorphct Yille, Camden and Welland. In a few instances residents hacl to bo rescued from their homes. At Aforphet Yille the racecourse was a foot under water. At Welland five hundred houses were flooded .Millions of green bricks were destroyed. The estimated loss thereon is over thirty thousand sterling. Some country districts report flood damage.