AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1924, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CULT TO ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION. SYDNEY, Jan. f). Ernest Wunderlich, founder of Wunderlich’s Ltd., ceiling manufacturers, and vice president'of the British Astronomical Association > (New South Wales Branch) has given his private observatory, important hooks and instruments to the Association for the use of amateur astronomers. TWO MOLDAVIA PASSENGERS. SYDNEY, Jan. 9. Passengers l».v tbe Moldavia included •Sir Frederick Young, who is visiting New Zealand to deliver lectures on sheep raising; and the Reverend Thomas Tail, who resigned from the Scots’ Church after eight years’ service. The Rev Tail informed the Presbytery that city church life was different from the suburban where iic had a body of loyal workers, but after an uphill battle for several years he was compelled to give in. PEACKFEL PEXKTRATI ON. SYDNEY, Jan. 9. Lord l.cveihulme. questioned a? to the likelihood ot a British Labour Cabinet, said Dial labour will come in England, hut lie hoped not bo tore the Labour Party was ready lor it. lie did not tear a Labour Government as responsibility had a wonderful and sobering inllttenee. Referring to the capital levy lie said that he defied any Government to dealt a suitable act and enforce it ; but. if it did then the only buyer would he America who would also he master. America was Inn ing up big businesses in (anada and would do likewise in Australia. She is practising peaceful penetration which Germany adopted during the year's loading up to the war.

LXIIIN!STS AND BREAD. SYDNEY'. January 9. ’The Smith Greta Miners’ Lodge inis decided to ask members to refrain from patronising the Maitland linkers wlieie night baking is in operation. The Lodge imposed penalties of one I omul for the first offence, two pounds I’m' the second, and expulsion from the Union for the third ofi’enee. AFTER THIRTY YEARS. SYDNEY. January 9. The Reverend W. !•. Robertson. Miu-i-ler to the Hay I’le-hylerian Church for the past tliiity years, has been appointed Moderator "f the New Sooth Wales Assembly. SYIAI.LBDN CASES. '.MELBOURNE. January 10. Three cases of small pox were reported on Thursday on the steamer St. I'rancois Xavier. Seven cases have been reported on steamers from the East in the past, few weeks. 'IT RE OK RADIUM DISAPPEARS. MELBOURNE. January 10. The Medical staff of the Melbourne Hospital is ueiturhed over the disappearance of ,1 tube of radium, valued at three hundred pounds, which is believed to have been thrown into the incinerator with used dre-sing and other debris. A tube of radium, valued at live hundred, was lost- before, hut was discovered in the incinerator.

SOLTI! A LSTI! A 1.l AN LI .KI’TION ADELAIDE. Jan. 9. The date ol the general elections ha - been fixed for the Ath of April. GOVERNMENT CONTROL (t'.V-Id-I.M .VEIL I SYDNEY'. M tin tint \ J. S. caking m Gilhgow, 1)• . Bar! Page estimated an e:;< e-s of iust'iius juvenile in coiti.e'i'.tencc er '.!: tenilenry o! increased imi'ii' Irah Pi add'd that I iii'erect •!:>(. : ih. ;■•> ally in rcas. I cl a • d ui' .-i ;..n unholy nuj.nrta- ! tail’ by the Stales Oil the Air-i rali.tn market. The lime had arriv’d uiien Australia should <*ol i.-iil>’i- the wisilmn o!’ private enterprise controlling public utilities instead ol ihe Government v hose o:ganis it ion in ihis and all States was breaking down. WINK BAB TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE. Jan. s. Lancelot Johnson, who figured in the wine bar tragedy in Melbourne on October "Ith, was fatally shot. Siih-e----t qnenily John BielmrcD, son of the proprietress of the bar, .surrendered to the police, stilting that he shot Johnson. lie told them the quarrel occurred over alterations in the oar. Johnson. who was intoxicated • ,; - saulted his mother with a hottle. Richards rushed upstairs and secured a pea rifle. 011 descending lie saw Johnson lull into his mother’s arm', with a bullet wound over the heart. He died shortly afterwards. Richards is detained on a charge of wounding Johnson. Richards has been remanded till January J (Jill on the charge ol murdering Johnson. Bail was was allowed. the Magistrate remarking Hint, under the circumstances, accused was entitled to hail.