AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1924, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. (Received at 12.25 a.in.) . WOOL SALES. SYDNEY, February 23. AI the wool sales the market was very animated with an upward tendency for .super wools. Competition was very keen for all descriptions. Creasy mrcino sold to 41} pence.

.MINERS CLAIMS. SYDNEY, February 27. Broken Hill miners are .submitting a now 100 to the proprietors. claiming a minimum wage of £5 10s weekly and a payment of 121 per cent above ordinary rates for afternoon and night shifts.

M ETHODIST CONFERENCE. "BA'f)N HY. February 27

In his official address at the opening of the Meihodist Conference. the 1 resident. Rovd. Potts, said the condition of the world to-day, two thousand years after Calvary, was sufficient to give the Church a heavy heart and corrugated brow. Re thought another reformation was dawning. Men were dissatisfied with the theological thouof the past ages. The living intellect of tn-uay refused to he bound by the views and conceptions of the glorious and antiquated past. While admitting the halo that encircled the ancient faith and creed as expressed in Archaic language. there was no reason why modern faith should not be expressed in modern speech. He thought n new spirit ot fraternity was making for elmnli union, but the gulf of centuries could not he bridged in a day.

SKELETON FOUND. this day at 8 a.m.) HOBART. February 27. A skeleton was discovered on the beach near Cape Portland. Xoith East Coast, believed to ho the remains of one of two aviators sent by the Federal government lwo years ago to search lor the schooner Amelia . which was fist at sea. The aviators were lest seen

by the inhabitants of one of the Strait: Islands living in the direction of tin ca-t coast of Tasmania.

MURDER NEWS. SYDNEY. Feb. 27. Douglas Shuttleworth was charged with the murder of Sharp at I.etna. He was remanded til! March Nth. The police allege Shuttleworth admitted that he quarrelled with deceased. who struck at: him with a bottle. Accused retaliated, striking Sharp with a sapling. At the inquest on the Ling children, the constable wluv arrested Ling stated in evidence that the latter told him that he was sorry he had done the deed, l ur lie was driven to il as hiwife would not do as he told her. lie said his wife went down to the Rail-’ leaving him on fhe stops with the children, when he got a razor am! ml. their throats. Ling was committed for trial for murder. ADELAIDE. Eel.. 27. An inquest on Mrs 'Hunter has opened. Mrs Holder, a sister of deceased, gave evidence that Morse gave witness to understand lie would do everything to prevent Mrs Hunter returning to her husband and children. The inquest was adjourned.

EXTRADITED. SYDNEY. Feb. 27. John P. Olsen was charged on pro visional arrest, with theft and wib desertion, lie was ordered to be re turned to Hamilton, New Zealand. A detective gave evidence that lie accosted Olsen in the street on February ( jtli and informed him that his wife had issued a warrant for his arrest for descrLiou. OLeii replied: "That is lien.-.', use. I gave her £SO before leaving, and. the house she is living in is worth £2OOO. T also left her with power of attorney.'' A week later the detective met Olson in a hotel and told him the police had now learned that a warrant was issued in New Zealand for his arrest for the theft of £.'!<) IPs from a titan of solictors by whom lie was employed. I here being a deficiency of £2.0')0 over a period of five years. Obeli was then arrested.

kml’li!e cnrisE. SYDN’EY. 27. Tlio telegraph linen to Adelaide are interrupted, greatly delaying news o! the fin'ivnl of the Fleet at Berth. The British fleet entered the harbour in beautiful weather, after standing oil till daybreak, (treat crowds Irani all parts of the State gathered on the sea from, waiting for the first glimpse of the visitors, and the harbour was alive and crowded with era ft of all daseriptions. When the fleet on he red it was aeeorded a ttunultuous uelcmiie by the -crowds ashore and afloat. The .Minister of Deience and Navy wirelessed a welcome on behalf of the Government and people of Australia.

A WONDERFFL ESCAPE. GET OK A BRICK KILN. Received this day at 9.15 a.ni.t MEUiO KENE, Eeb. 28. A remarkable escape is recorded in the ease of James Lakie, who, while stoking a brick kiln, had his clothing caught hv a knot of wood and was dragged into the furnace fourteen feet deep, lie scrambled to a spot where the wood was a bit damp to escape the flames and his comrades lowered a pule and drew him up carefully so as to avoid the sides of the red hot furnace. His clothes were afire and scorched. Eakie collapsed on reaching the top, hut is recovering. Oil. BO HE REPORT. BRISBANE, Feh. 28. The Government geologist’s report on the recent oil discovery at Oralla Bay, says that the tests made were distinctly encouraging.