AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1923, Page 4

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIAVION. A COLD SNAP. SYDNEY. Oct. id. Owing to a cold change inland, due to snow and frost on the highlands, a heart mortality is reported among shorn sheep. HEAVY STORMS. MELBOURNE, Oct. id. Heavy storms have been cxpcrioit ed during the past twenty-four hours. There i* little sign of an abatement. HIE JAPANESE DISASTER. BRISBANE. Oct. Id. A Kai-.-son. n .New Zealander. teacher ol English in Japanese seli'ini* in Tokio lias arrived at Townsville. In a lengthy interview lie sav* there i* little doubt in the mind* of many Japanese that smile fire* were caused by Koreans, nlm lotted Jaoan. and took advantage of the calamity to add to the i haos. Matty innocent Koreans were unjustly put to death hv the infuriated populace holding thi* theory. Rawson estimates over d!7 thousand houses were burned in Tokio and Yokohama. X.S.W. POLITICS. SYDNEY, Oct. Id. The Progressive Party have nominated P. P. Abdott. formerly Federal member for New England, as the Country Party candidate for the Senate vacancy. li' the Country and i.,:liauf parties unite and defeat Mr Greene on Wednesday, it is felt the breach between the Country and Nationalist ]’Arties will he widened in New South Wales, and also the Commonweal lit. A JUDGE'S COMMENTS. SYDNEY. Oct. Li. ' Owing to Judge Rolin and also the jury in a ease at the quarter sessions ‘ commenting strongly on the language I used by some employees at Cockatoo i Dock, the employees held a meeting i

and derided to enter a strong prot<--u. | noainst t!u' rnnunents, and also ashing | lor a withdrawal of tlit- statements , tin* .likl.uo, and that an c ll< |nif\ ho i • lit I to investigate ilia ciiario'S. BTB FLOODS TN VICTORIA. j MFLBOI HXF. Oil;. 11. j After heavy rain in the highlands ! and a downfall in tin l city, the Varrti I river was in higher (lend to-day than j 'ever .since 1 IKK). A ureal body of water j came down very rapidly. All the lowly inj: lands around Meidclhere, Ivanhoe. j Konyont:, Hawthorn, Abbotsford, and j | "ther stiburl-s is inor 0 or less untier **<2 water. All the hie sporting events 1 were postponed. > The roneh weather is at rotnpanied hy : tain, and .shipping is hold up. ! Several fatalities are repoiied. Two; lads in a eanne capsized near Burnley i Street hrid_'e. one be in" drowned. A j child was swept away at Tiotliani. ami a man was drowned at Bnnyaiee. while . .■itteinplin" to ero-. a water channel. j The eounrry icports state the rivers : tl’.eic are in hiyli tleod. Much dam- I ace is 1.-einu done, itielinline a nnnil.or | of landslides on the railways.