AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1923, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN SARDINES. SYDNEY, Nov. 2r». Australia every year imports many hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of fish from oversea. On the Australian coast, it is stated, are multitudes of little lish which are now used mainly as hait, when they are used at all, hut which are more closely related to the true sardine than the Norwegian lish. Tentative proposals are now on foot for establishing an Australian sardine industry. If it is decided to embark on the industry, lireton lishernien may he brought out to give it a helping hand. It is considered that there is no reason why Australia should not supply her home market, instead ol importing sardine- to the value oi €250,!1it!) or so a year. The duty on sardines i-> now !d a!b on tlio-e produced it' <; rea( iiiitriin. and 21 a lb on those imported from foreign countries. i’raeiiealiy all the sardines imported into Australia mine from inreign eounfries, hut the Tarill Hoard lias promised that if this, new imlii-try is started m Australia tt will receive every consideration ;t a higher duty is sought.

A PPROACH ING (If NTKN A liV. SYDNEY. Nov. 2fh In a ieu days Brisbane celehrates its centenary, and already many New <cihmders will have received invitations to the ceremonies. It is ready 321 years since Captain .Matthew Flinders set out In exp'ere t|„. |ii-ishnne River, which Uan’.ton Cook had lielieved existed by rile teinialiou ol Lite hills around: hut it is just on a hundred years sittse the tree settlemelii of Aloreton Day hegw.i. Hrishaue ililfers essentiallly amn the capitals of the other Australian Sla."S in .seenerv to begin with. It h-s ml the lovely harbour of Sydney, net tne snow-clad mountains of llohart to oaeK it up, hut it has a winding . iver. as wide as the Thames at Loudon, amt. below it, far deeper. It has -w at Sydney and Melbourne and l.eie, ■ » have not —piei uresque timhered hdls from 200 it to KlflOft high within a radius of a lew miles. It is only Imi miles from the sea in place oi .it! aLondon is. and I loin ils lulls tla v is a far-reaching view that ueiihq- Lon don or the other places mein in '"d can show—east ward and northward ipule 50 miles, southward about -o, west ward 70. One can see to he east 1 e river, sea. and distant islands, vastward to the giant warder .ion it nos,

oneliisiug the Darling Downs co'.lii'iv; south, to the peaks which fori i N v South Wales; north, to ihe ;a'ges which are neighbours unto those i urlookiug the head waters of several rivers—truly a stretch of eon rv that would blot out all Wales or Tasmania, to be seen from the hill summits ol lirisbane, and a combination f pver and mountain, sea and city, f.nni and forest, garden am! steeple, that would make up a notable landscape auyv lo ie. The beautiful estuary of ‘he D< rv.'t i t is here missing, as are the rock 'apes ami miniature hays of Port Jackson; but there is the ]ooft wide river, from 25ft to 100 ft deep, on which the Oll()0-lnn steamers, which loom quite large at the Circular quay, and are not familiar sights in the other cities, appear ilwaned hy the great natural features around this sunny city of hotels, clean streets, great possibilities, and warm

j tUsTI-.Ai.i.t.N AND N. V. . CAiSI.E ASSOCIATION. v. ‘N.S.W TRAGEDY j SYDNEY. Def. PL A; the Simpson inquest. the Coronei loinid that death was caused by a wound maliciously inllc'f.'d by hdurrny. and exonerate'.! I tines. The. polio- produced a stat. nc. of, mud*- In Mu. l ray in which i; is alleged be '•barged Simpso!! with fooling with e.iaiiii"! Spun "" a i rem i ited In Strike him, adding: •‘Tlien I went Iliad, and pulled a knife across Simpson's throat.’ 7 Me declared Trines Intel nothing to do with the quarrel, being perfectly innocent. GLEXFKRRY MURDER. MELBOURNE. Dee. PL The hearing of the charge against Angus. Murray, mid Taylor, arising out or the murder of Air J’errinian, hank manager at Olenforry. has been adjourned until the February sitting i of the criminal court. PICTURE THEATRE EPISODE. THE I! A I LlT’!''!-! IN. SYDNEY, Dec. lib. A real moving picture was witnessed in the heart of the city lasi night. "When the audience at one. of the picture theatres had lost settled in their seats a gang of men took charge of the house, demanding seats and turned the audience into George Street. It transpired that the manitgemenl was heavily in debt and the bailiffs were put in to remove all the chairs and furniture. A number of lorries were quickly loaded and the goods were carried awav to the accompaniment of the laughter and cheers of many hundreds of people who congregated in the vicinity. SYDNEY VVOOL SALES. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) i SYDNEY, Dee. 13. j The wool sales market opened very | strong and keen. Prices showed an I increase of five to tell per cent as compared with November rates. Good average sorts registered the greatest advance. Greasy merino sold to 38 A pence. Lambs wool equalled the record price of thirty pence. POPULATION OF AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, Dee. 13. The Commonwealth statistician re- , ports that the population of Australia at the end of Sept, last numbered 5,715,018, of which 2,011.722 were males j and 2,803.290 were females. The increase during the year was 279,281. or , slightly over two per cent. , The population of various States is; j New South Wales 2.198,164, Victoria , ‘ o.|B, Queensland 811,425, South , Australia 51.0.418, West Australia ( 350.580, Tasmania 213,583, Northern Terri torv 3.042. Federal Territory 3,255.