AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1924, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AUSTRIA AND DAVIS CUP. SY'DNEY, March 15. The Council of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association decided to oppose the acceptance of Austria’s nomination for tho Davis Cup contests. COMPULSORY CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, March 15. A compulsory conference of the parties to the strike in the coke industry has been summoned for Monday. OFFENCES UNDER- MONOPOLIES ACT. SYDNEY, Alarch 15. The Government lias completed, and will shortly lie gazetting regulations under the Monopolies Act. They provide for the imposition of drastic penalties for restraining, to the detriment of the public, trade as regards the supplies of goods or Hie price of comodities, or the service of such a monopoly or combination, blooming a criminal offence. The penalty for the first offence is n fine of five hundred pounds, the second offence lieing indictable.

GOVERNOR WANTED FOR TASMANIA. HOBART, Alarch 15. The Assembly on the easting vote of (he Speaker, concluded with tho resolution of the Upper House asking the King to appoint a Governor of Tasmania. The session then closed. VICTORIAN POLITICS. THE FARMERS AMAZED. MELBOURNE, Alarch 15. The members of the Farmers’ Union state that Air Lawson '(Premier) resigned in too great a hurry, and they are amazed at the precipitancy of the action. They state that lie could, at least, have waited a week. Mr Lawson will now form a purely Nationalist Government, but he will be in a minority, and it is expected that he will be defeated at bis first attempt to legislate contcntiously.

KING’S PRIZE SHOOT. .MELBOURNE, March InAfter an exciting finish Key to won the King’s Prize after a seven tie shot was filed with A. Hutchison, Now South Wales. MOTOR CAR FATALITY. MELBOURNE, March IT. A motor car containing A Pidcock ~,i,1 p. Stuart was overturned near Warrangul. and fell down Dead Alan's Gully, pinning the occupants underneath. Both were killed. flood receding. BRISBANE. March 15. The Hoods in the north are subswli ii g. A further fatality is reported at (uniuuiniulla. a young man Ixting thrown from a horse and drowned.

HELP FOR UNEMPLOYED. BRISBANE-, March 11. At present 10N9 unemployed are re- • i-ivmg u.stenynve under the Unemployed Workers' Insurance Act. To date the total sustenance pay amounts to £79,934. BRISBANE, Alarch 14. The Arbitration Court after hearing mii application by the Australian Workers’ Union for an increase in the living wage, decided it should remain as at present. £■! weekly.