AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. TALL CRICKET SCORES. .•Received this day nt 9.15 a.in.) SYDNEY, Nov. 27. Tlie eon.-i-trtnt piling up of big scores since the opening of the season has led to much press comment on the lack of class bonders in first grade cricket and the urgent need oi remedying this weakness. Among the tall scores o-u r the week-end the Cordon team compiled 52- run- for live nickels, Western .Suburb- 405 tor two. AVaverloy replied to Cniver-ky's lit I with Mli7 for four.

THE Korean AIA sSAn {E. [■trthei: details. •Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) SAD.YEY. November 27 I he ".Morning Herald'.-" eoniini - ,ti>nci' ' ll Tapau. giving further detail'd the iiiiiklcus rl Korean-, give- an instance ol tom persons, including a woman, who applied to tile police [V r Jil'oteetion. and the policemen, taking medicine in their pos-v-.-ioii for poison, cau.-ed them to he thrown into wells, tied to il telegraph pole. They stabbed them to death and the woman «as al-o taken tiwa.v and mnrderetl. Owiug to this action nl the police the voluntary guards in the district ■micluiL ed that it Mas quite in order for them to kill Koreans whenever thev tnuud similar instances in oilier districts. Due of the perpetrator- on trial toned a v, iilely urged excu-e for the outrage-. He -aid that thing- Mere i:i «nscu del al the time and lie believed Hint 1 e u as doing his share towards the saving oi the nation. The Coinmissioiier adds that tlm crimes are an unpleasant recoil! which the in (I Uent m! .lapaiie-e people vuiiid he glad to have- wiped Inun the national slate.

A K BIT!,’ATM t.\ ( OERT ./I'Dtir: UK’s Mi NS. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) BERTH. November 27. AL dust ire Drajcr lias re-lgnctl from The i’re-idcncv of the Arbitration Court. I he Labour o: ga nisa t ion- recent ly eri-tiei-ed him for imleasing the hours oi Government l Morkers from fot ty-four t> lori.v-eiglit and weie com: det iug ne- ! n nms ashing for hi- removal.

! II ICE OK SUGAR IN BRITAIN. .'Received this day at 11. !5 a.m.) LONDON, X i t mil her 2d. Owing In th ll sea it it > . the pi ice of •sugai lies been ad van. big i.hiily. 11

me a -billing pr hiindivoM eight to-day tanking, an :uK nm-,. of bet r.eeu live and six | omuls sieiling tar mu during the last few Meek-. A nilmi ion is not exported uiiiil the ('1111■ ■ll crop anive- in Eelirini i y. (Nt.M'EST OX BERRIMAXY ASSAILANT'S CO MAI IT TED KOR TRIAL. AlEl/BOI'RX'E, Nov. 27. The Coroner found that Renimau was fatally -hot by Richard Buckley in conjunction with Angus Murray. He found that Buckley and Murray veto guilty of murder and Taylor guilty as an accessory. He committed them for i i ial. Buckley, -o far. has eluded arrest, t iimi.gli the police hare la on searchiug i'ot him for weeks. Several witnesses identified .Murray and Bm'kley a- Rorrtm,ail's assailants, THE Al UR DEB OF MBS OVERALL. AI EL HOUR Neff Nov. 27. Kelly is now being .charged that lie cremated, pr dost toyed by lire, tbe renmins of Alls fhei'rdl. the infoi mation

-i Ming -,.0l i hut the d—t ruction can ied out in a place outside the cem. ctory v. itirmt the con-oiil of I lie In. al Board of lloalth. MEMORIAE ID GOVERNOR. SYDNEY. Nov. 27. The Sir Walter David-on .Memorial Committee will cm l a Celtic cross of An-; rnli.-in stone on the late Governor's grave. NEW Ci'iNEA. M ELUDE UN E. Nov. 27. Tin- administrator n! rhe ma imm tei-rilorv of New Guinea stales that there are still about forty Gormanin the lerritory in addition to 2- > Dei man missionaries. I here are mdicai ions that German propaganda is still active. The output of copra last year had increased by over seven tons and the introduction <>! duvet shipment to Britain and Europe. _wun l.lie consequent reduction in Heights from £!> U-s a ton in !!>2I to under greatly henelited lie- industry.

ELECTION I’OSRiE'I.rnE.C SYDNEY, Nov. IA [.ith-our leaders are now mgani.-mg tin ir toreo.- in anticipation ol an early State election. The belief in political I.ah-mr circlo* is that there will he an appeal to the electors, about dune next. All the sign- seem to indicate that 1 ! u . (Palition Governm-mt will not la-t its full term, despite the strong denial of any rift in the ( ahiuet lute, and in the parties behind the Ministry. The fact that on more than one occasion tla- Erngrnssives 'have crossed tin- th-or against the Government must he somewhat chilling to Sir George I-tillers team. So confident is l.ahour of an eitrlv election that it has marshalled the federal and Slate Parliamentary i.aen-ar purlin, aed the A.E.P. oxocut i\• Jo disi-U's tla- oi-gauising aiTangeii nts. The -ULVge-i i-ui !hat ( ahiuet meetings nowadays arc '.cry much like cat- and deg fight.- is unequivocally denied 1 1 v til-' Mih i' t- -: -‘-r . I ust 11 a - -Ml Lev), on-' of the three Progressives in tin- Ministry. If. a- is commonly reported to he likely. Sir George Fuller Inter retires iivoi the arena, although he has made it quite plain that he not want the Ageii I -Generalship them will he a preutv little tus-le for ! Premier-hip honours between the (. h-i-'l Secretary (Mr Oakes), and Mr Ley, e;i'h of whom hay a --did hacking. Mr Eoy is iv.vd-ahiv the sihh-t men in *no Mini-try. he i- in an ah-mlt-d .- impregnable position in hi- eleclerato. ami he ha- youth, ivr- oiialily. and a big pliy-i'-uo on Ills side. The mere |-.;,e t ],:i t he r-.-eni lv ohauged hi- place - f residence i rom -ill-.’ sulmi-l, to an--i, her in his electoral-. was made the occasion for farewells and welcome* of a most elaborate character. The Xat ioi m li-t s-Progres-1 vo* could do far worse, in ilic event of an election, than carry their banner into the wilderness behind tlm strong personality of Mr .Lev.