AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, | AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT. {Received this day at 10.45 a.m.) ' BRISBANE, Arpil 17 I The aviators, Goble and .AJacintyro have arrived at Thursday Island. WEST KALIAN Al LNISTBY. PERTH, April 17.

The State Parliamentary Labour thirty has elected the following .Ministry, leaving the allotment of portfolios to Air Collier who will be Premier:—W. C. Angwiii, J. C. Willcock, A. Alc-callum, Al. E. '.lioy, Al. Drew. THE TAXI DRIVER’S -MURDER. PERTH, April 17. The police have arrested George William Auburn, aged 21, in connection with the murder of O’Neill, the taxi driver. AY YR ALL All ENQUIRY. MELBOURNE, April 17 At the inquiry into the WyrallahDilkera collision, (’apt Watson, master of the Dilkera, giue evidence that- lie saw the masthead and a red light of n smaller vessel shortly after the other ship hull showed a green light. He blew the whistle which was answered by the smaller ship. He stop-

ped his engines and a few minutes later the collision occurred. Wise, the mate of the Wyrallnh, deposed the Wyralluh was oil the wrong sitle of the channel according lo navigation rules. ARROW FIELD HORSE SALE. SYDNEY, April 17. The Arrowfield dispersal sale was a record for Australia. 135 lots realising (50,280 guineas. The bidding was very keen at the commencement, but towards the end of the sale lots of brood marcs with foals went, cheaply. PRODUCE PRICES.

MELBOURNE, April 17 Oats 3s, 3s 4d; barley (English) -Is, Is 2d, (Cape) 3s (id, 3s 7tl ; -potatoes 134 to £4 10s; onions £!5 to £!i ss. ANOTHER SHIPPING DISPUTE. SYDNEY, April 17. Another shipping dispute has artsei . The crew of the steamer Kntoomba, due to sail for West Australian ports on Saturday with three hundred passengers, were paid off and the vessel was laid up owing to the owners refusing the Seamen’s Union demand to pay compensation in oiiiietti u: uith the injured baud of a seaman employed on a sister ship. Tlteerew claim the injury was -received aboard the ship. The company says it was inflicted during a scuffle on the wharf. GUILTY OF A! AN'S LA UGH TER. AIELBOURNE. April 17. Pantiienet. cabled on 29th. .March, was found guilty of manslaughter, with , a recommendation to mercy. He was remanded for sentence, pending an apical to the Full Court.