AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. -MOTHER’S MAD ACT. SYDXEY, May 23. At the impicst on the two Cohen children drowned on .May l(i, Austin Cohen, father of the children, gave evidence that he was not oil good terms with his wife, who was passionately fond of the children.

The police produced a statement, allegedly made by Isabel Cohen, wherein she said that something came over her when standing looking into the harbour, and she threw th" children in. When she saw them in the

water, she was sorry and screamed and a sailor jumped in after them. The coroner returned a verdict n murder in the case of each child against Mrs Cohen. JAP STEAMER REFLOATED. (Received this day at 0.25 a.m.) SYDXEY. Ma.v 20. The I’gainaru, which grounded In the 'l'orres Straits, lias been refloated apparently undamaged. She proceeded northward, arriving at Cl node Island yesterday.

POLITICAL AO R HEM EXT REACT ED.

SYDNEY, .May 20

After a prolonged conference between representatives of the Cabinet and representatives of the Progressive Party, Sir deorge Fuller, on behalf oT both parties, aiiuounced that the business to be presented at the forthcoming sessions was discussed and an agreement was reached as to the programme to be submitted.

MELBOURXE HOSPITAL OVERCROWDED. 'Received this day at 0.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE. May 20. So great lias the strain of attending an excessive number of patients at the .Melbourne Hospital become that the ■Medical Superintendent told the Board of management that the only remedy he could suggest was to close Its doors. He thought this would lie necessary as the waiting list amounts to HI id. ’

T ASM A XIA\S A d F.XT-0 F.X KR A L. HOBART .May 20. Colonel Keeles Shiiwden has been up>iiiti'll Agent-General for Tasmania.

M FXIFICEXT LIFTS. SYDXEY. May 2.1. Mr d. F. Tollman’s munificent gift of £20,000 to tbe Western Suburbs Cottage Hospital in Sydney, for a new wing—lie lias been one of tbe hospital’s best friends for many years past —recalls to mind the fact that the exercise of beneficence is the splendid attribute of at least three of the big men in tbe tobacco industry in Sydu»*. •Mr Tollman, one of the number, lias also done much, apart from other benefactions, for the advancement of cnliter research. Then there is Sir Hugh Denison, to whose pilblic-spiiitednoss Hie Royal Colonial Institute owes its handsome building in Sydney, and who lias lichred along many good causes. Again, the first Cancer [linin' in New South Wales, forming a magnificent addition to the Home for lueurabtoi, wonlil not be an accomplished fact today but for the generosity of Sir Hugh Hixson. The Home will be opened free of debt at n cost of nearly £27,0(10, towards which Sir Hugh and his late wife, Dame Emma Hixson, gave C‘2(l,()f). Sir Hugh Dixsun is also one of the pillars, in a very practical sense, of the Jiaptisi Cluirih.

COTTON dllOIXd. SYDNEY. May 23

flic-steps which have just been taken in Sydney by representatives cf the Commonwealth and i f the States to place eolton-gi owing on n sound, oconoiulu basis. promise io give an impetus to 11 1 inew industry in Australia. The Inundation of the new organisation are a .Ministerial Cotton Council, comprising Federal and State Ministers, and an expel t Advisory Committee, which will frame a scheme for plant-breeding, cultivation experiments. the investigation of insect pests and diseases, and the training of experts in cotton culture. A general conference of all those interested in the industry will he held in June. It is hoped, ns the outcome of this, to formulate definite schemes for submission to the Ministerial or Federal Council. Mr Evans. the British expert. is emphatically of the opinion that tlie potentialities of the cotton industry in Australia and especially in Queensland, are limited only hy pop illation. It lias been suggested that n central research station should lie established .somewhere near the border of Queensland and New South Wales.