AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1923, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CADLE ASSOCIATION lost in gulf uountral BRISBANE, Oct. II For months police troopers nt Die Gulf country, with the aid of bi.v.r trackers and mission blacks, have made a search for two adventurous young Australians, who were 10.-t while on a walking tour round Australia at the end of July, 1922. The ofiieial opinion is that the youths either perished from thirst, were taken by alligators, or 01.-c were victims of hostile blacks. The names of the youths were IISteeiiblmni and E. Stephens. 'lheir parents live in Sydney. Early in 1922 they started on a walking tour round Australia. The last their parents heard ol them was that they had left AVyper Alission Station, In the Peninsula, and that they intended lo walk down the west coast to Nonnanton.

It was learned that the youths were put across Kiuhley river, near Coon, tin October lhth ol* 17th, 1922, AY hen they left tile AVyper Alission, the. hoys had suflh iont food for tt month. I hey also had lilies ami 200 rounds of ammunition.

Aborigines later saw tracks which are believed to he those of white men, on the Ward river. One experienced police officer held the view that if tracks were seen on the AAard river, the youths must have mistaken it lor the Watson river. Their error would at that time oi the year have led them lo the waterless barren country, and later to Ward river and Archer river. A search was made in these directions, hut 110 trace of the two youths was found. RE-MODELLING SYDNEY. SYDNEY, Get. IS Few things arc move striking in Sydney to-day than the buildings activity. The old buildings are gradually becoming but a memory. Alany still remain hut they are doomed. Like Lamb's poor relations, inferiors still clinging with embarrassing familiarity, to the aristocrats round them, the death’s hood, so to sneak, at ihe banquet of imposing and massive architecture, they hang in; hut the time is not far distant when they will all crumble to dust. Radical changes in the planning of Sydney are now suggested by the new Gity Surveyor, who recently arrived from England. One of the tilings which gives to Sydney an indefinable fascination is its crooked winding streets. That many of them follow the tracks of 1 lie old bullock teams oi the early day- may not he- only picturesque legend, but it certainly accentuates the difficulty of rr-motlelliug the city. 'I hree cit v landmarks ol hallowed associations will he affected if the changes suggested are brought about. St. Stephen’s in Phillip street, and the Pitt street Congregational Church have been marked, and it is even suggested that St. Andrew’s Cathedral should he removed from its present site, next to the Town Half, to Church Hill, in the vicinity of Circular (>uay. It reminds one. by the way, of the late Lord N’oriholiffo’s parting .shot, on leaving Sydney. He was asked lor lu- final impressions as lit 1 was hustling into a train. St. Mary’s Cathedral, for the beauty of its architecture and its situation, greatly impressed him. Bui as 1 the. ecniral seat of the gloat Anglican 1 Church is one of the biggest cities in the world, he regarded St. Andrew's Cathedral as one of the most unimpressive spectacles ill Sydney. Not a lew agree with him. situated as it is on a hloelc of land which, in -ize. would more liUinglv grace a nice suburban bungalow. One of the most notable of ihe new buildings is that of the Sydney

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