AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1923, Page 3

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lUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION FIRE DAMAGE. SYDNEY. Oct. 25 The estimate of the damage in the Pitt Street tire is £100.001). It is fully covered by insurance. JUDGMENT DELIVERED. •SYDNEY, Oet. 20. Judge Seboles to-day delivered judgment in the claim of Captain Spain against the "Union Company. He said the Captain showed personal carelessness and negligence. Therefore ho found the accident due to the wilful misconduct of the plaintiff, and he was not entitled to redress. SYDNEY PONY RACES. St DNKA . Oct. 20. A select committee recently appointed to inquire iubi the question of pony racing and the placing of the .-port on a non-Proprietary basis, lias comineiieed ils sittings. The secretary of (be Pony Owners’ and Trainer-' A-socia-lion gave evidence that ninety per emit of the members of the Association were hard up. and were depending mum one another for help'. Ihe Association's objections to tin- propiieiary (lubs was that they got verv lit L 1 • • p-ize money, and the cost of racing was very expensive. The prize money was not snllicient. They were therefore compelled to get. or go bankrupt. They ran the horses, and the clubs girt the money. The paucity of the prizes was an incentive to evil practices. At the same lime lie claimed that pony racing was a- clean as any other sport. There had been a big-falling off in the patronage. There still were over mie thousand ponies in training. ear««w*s»ar

LONDON. Oft. :*o. Mr Hughes's reply to Lord Curz-m concludes with what the "Morning Pest" describes a- "an ominous suggestion.'' This deals viiMi Lord Gurzmi's inquiry: ’Mould Britain .and a mainrity of the Allies Imp • for the United States’ co-operation, supposing there was a proposal to hold a reparations inqtirv without eomoleie unanimity M- Hughes replies tlmf: In that case, llie United States must reserve it- decision regarding ils ccurse of action, in order that a r-mi's:' mav be taken which would give the best promise of ultimate .■success, securing the desired end. the re-establishment of the essential conditions for European peace and economic restoration."