AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SUBTfIAI.IAN AND N.Z CAItI.E ASSOCIATION SYDNEY AVKATIIF.R. (Received this day at 12.25 -p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec-. 5. •tfftc- weather is very hot and rain it badly wanted. Drought conditions it some country districts arc* beeoiniut serious. North const areas are sutler jog from a lone, dry spell. Ihe Alto jsLer of Agriculture promised eon sicleration of a rei|Uest hv a depute tion to advance* hall a million sterling to assist, necessitous hunters there.

KELLY SENTENCED. r t AIELBOFBN'E. Dee. 5. ~ Kc.'lly was .sentenced to five years. s AIDER A K I'S TRII*. I .MKI.ROVR.YE. Dec. 5. ~ The AloeraUi is threatened to be ~ held up by the seamen demanding ( . * r Australian rates of pay while the vessel is under exemption from the Navi- ( nation Act. The crew signed "inter ( . No 2 articles and the owners acceded | to the demand. The Aloeraki s ex- | emptiem applies to one trip only. ~ LICENSING REFERENDUM. j % il (Received this clay at l-.’-o p.m.) SYDNEY, Dee. 5. Another cleavage is reported in the prohibition, camp over the date of the referendum. Air Hammond contends ( that the recent agreement, was reached on the basis of a referendum at the end of 1925, but the Alliance refuses c to agree to it later date and il unable | to get that it will insist on an inlinediate referendum in aeeorclanec* with pre-election promises. ~ Air Ley explains that it was not stipulated in the recent agreement . that a referendum would he taken in ~ 1925 but when the work of the Recluetinns Board was completed which overlie in live years. Tf the period could be reduced the referendtiin wotthl be taken earlier. RAILAYAY FARES REDUCED. < SYDNEY, Dee. 5. The Railway Commissioners have ( reduced the first-class tares on jour- | nevs exceeding two hundred miles, the 'V'" reductions ranging from 2s to 15s. ( DTAAIOND DISCOVERY. J (Received this day at 12 noon). BRISBANE, Dee. 5. ’ A discovery of true diamonds, the tirst ever made in Queensland, is rs* ported at Woman, in. Rockhampton district. The specimens are small ones and acre found on the surlac-e o! the Associated Sapphires’ Kill acres diamond forous ground recently taken up. A AIEAIORIAL. HOBART. Dee. 5. A memorial was unveiled in the Prince of Wales’ Bay to commemorate the planting of the Dutch Hag in Tasmania in KM2 h.v Tasman. WOOL SALES. BRISBANE, Dec-. 5. At the wool sale’s, good clips were offered, hut show signs of droughty conditions. Brices ranged I rum live , to seven and a-luilf per cent, higher than November.