AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AVSTIMLIAN AND .N.Z. CAItI.K ASSOCIATION. WHEAT CLAIMS. (Received this day til 11.10 a.m.) SI DNEY, February 20. Mi Rrnxner is dissatisfied with tho ! del tsioii oil the wheat claims of the j Ptegie.-sive party. He .says the Premier departed from the agreement, a d the real issues are not yet. decided. The i.irmers still wanted to know where the over-paid half a million went ami who got it, and must the farmers Lea" the whole loss.

a tragedy. ADELAIDE, Feh. 20. Shortly alter arrival of the steamer Medic from Sydney, it passenger. .Mrs 11 an ter was visited aboard, by a man named Ilnrio Morse. The two descended to the wharf, where, alter talking a while a shot was heard and Mis llentei dropped dead ill a few minutes. Morse then shot himself and was sent -"■ the hospital iii a critical condition. Hunter was travelling to South. Africa, ft i- stated she left her husband in Ireland two years ago. Morse has been paying attention to her, hut was not eic ouraged WET' AND DRY PARLIAMENTS. SYHNTA. 1 eh. 20 Mi Hammond, speaking at the Ailin' • picnic, sal’ll that while prcdlib'tio‘! add never touch party polite it was imperative to secure a dry

I'arli iinent before imping fur a dry State. A wet Parliament coil'd ih-l'y tho dry people, i heir standard was local and State option by a bare ma-joi-il.v wilii a. two years' notice, as the on|v eicersion to Ji possess traders. The nr-.' triennial po’i will take’ place in 192.) and the movement would endeavour to secure the return of prohil.itoiiists to Parliament next election. NEAV POLITICAL AIOVKAIK.NT. BRISBANE, Feh. 25. A new inurement by the Queensland Political Reform Association, has been inaugurated by a Brisbane barrister with the object of absorbing or effecting the co-operation between sections of the Opposition in the Assembly. SAD DROWNING FATAL TTY. BRISBANE. Feb. 25. A tragic drowning fatality is report - ed from Bribie Island. Captain Laid|,.y. of a coastal steamer, with his wile and two children went, for a row in a punt, and the wife stumbled over her baby changing places with her daughter, and boih fell into the water. The Captain rescued his daughter. and left her hanging on to the side of the pun! while he swam after his wife whom lu* was unable to carry back to the punt- on account of tTie strong tide. He left her on a sand bank in the v.at*‘r uv. to hvr nock. Hut on returning to the punt- his daughter had disappeared. j.nidley then pulled the punt to the snot where Tie had left hi* wife, and she too was missing. The 1,0,1 V Of the wife was found subsequently and the police are searching for the daughter.