AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AfSTJtAI.f.X AND N 7,. CAItI.K ASSOOI/.l lON CHARGED WITH MERGER. .ME!.IK iLI 1 N . Novend er I’d.. The seaman 1 'aid’ erg has been committed in: t rial on a charge <>! murdering the -a...man. Hanks, on a steamer in .Melbourne. l.y strangling him. BARRED BY 'Dm DT( REE. (Received tins day at toil a.m.5 SYDNEY. November 17. Barr, d In ins cj u rec.-uiv i —in -I ui.a-o agaiu'-t sired miking.'t he Chief Secretary had iclmtauily in deeliii" speaking at an opdi air lio-pital carnival di'i lay, and Sir Geo. Tidier declined speaking for lhe same reason. N SAY. POLITICS. SYDNEY. November Id,. In the New South Wales Assembly t «... (I. vei'ii 111. ml V. ere dele:. led mr l lie tbii'i lime this si -dim by cue vote, on a I'm n: d nc t.i, n ..u tie fan a.I Goimi nTlie Pmnd'w. Si! G. i'idle: . staled that be i'u U v realise! l'm serious lie. i lire ol ;lm | i., it nn. and would git e tin- I iuu.-e a clmr.ee of nlft: ming it- vete on Tucday. until when the House adjourned. r i he position uro-e tiiroiigii one Nat ianalisi voting v iih the Oj>|H>sition ami a number of others being id-m from the Chandler. A BIG IN RE. BRISBANE. Nm euder 10. \ big lire at lii hiemd d.-troyed a id, ek of shoos and Am !’•.■! i'lih e. Tb • WORKER-' CNRiX FAD. SYDNEY. No; If. Tim ciie-t strike phase at Broken •s dved It.at mam r- im .>im:m-!L-.I uwear a ribbon ill a eiuispieuou- pla.ee on their p -mis. i >’-■ 1 m m it. i ktic'.! NERVE TROEBEES AND OYEU'i IMF. .MEI.ROERNE. N-.v. 17. At the Mt tliaal C'oiigres- Doctor I'tmlv strongly lemned overtime as tiie cause of nervous troubles vvliieh were so fruitful m mu- direction. It Amtdd on!v he engaged in an emergency. ST VI E »\n FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION. I MELPOniNE. Nov. 17. 1 The taxpayers every w lie re are i grumbling against the east •>'. the ; combined State and a ledual administration. hut jt I'.Meived a hliip from figures supplied by the Federal Coinmissoner showug that the C ommonwealtli alone rinds employment for 41.t5‘J0 persons with an annual pay roll of £7.801.000 sterling, exclusive of overtime and travelling expenses