AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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the Meat trade. SYDNEY, June 12.

Giving evidence before the Select Parliamentary Committee. Mr Osborne, a member of the Metropolitan Meat Industries Association, said that in 1922-28 Australia exported 078,000 quarters of frozen meat, this being a decrease of o 1,000 quarters compared with the previous year. For the same period Argentine chilled meat exported amounted to 1.109,00(1 quarters. He said the reasons for the falling off in Australasian trade was not that Australian and New Zealand frozen meat is not up to the required standard, hut because chilled beef is an article now in the greatest demand in Britain.

CENSURE MOTION DEFEATED

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 12 In the House of Representatives the censure motion (cabled on lith) was defeated by ,‘W lo 2.‘i. A XEW LINER. SYDNEY. June 12. Ihe Fet udalc. a 12.800 lon cargo slimmer, built for the Commonwealth bine, was to-day successfully launched at Cockatoo Island. REDUCED HOURS FOR COKE WORKERS. SYDNEY. June 18. Thi> Cuke Tribunal lias granted the workers in the coke industry a reduction in the I uni is of wink front fortyeight to forty six weekly

ELINT’S CONDITION DANGEROUS. SYDXEIY. June 18.

The condition of Mrs Flint (cabled yesterday! is critical. Met dying depositions have been taken.

VICTORIAN .ELECTIONS. MELBOURNE, June 18

One hundred and thirty seven candidates have been nominated for the sixty-live seats in the State General elections. Twenty are unopposed, ineluding twelve Labour, live Nationalists and three Country Party. Till-: CO( A INK VICTIMS. EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. MELBOURNE, June 12 The facts disclosed in connection with the deaths of Pa-qualin and Miss Ytvier, who suicided by taking overdoses of eoeaine. indicate that they had come to the end of their Htianeial resource- and that the man, in fear of poverty, took his life and was followed by a (Impairing coiiipaniou. Pasqualin leil a letter expressing his deep love for Vivier adding. "Rut I must go. 1: is for the best. 1 ’

Vivier l had an engagement as it dancer nt n Melbourne music hall.

A SYDNEY MEMORIAL. SIDNEY. June .‘)

The carillon which i- ti grace the big clock lower of Sydney Univcr-ity will la- a magidiiceiit memorial to liio men and women of our chief seat of learning, who. in divers ways, did their hit during the war. ’! he carilhui, which will co-t A.’lo.d 1 !:) will con-i-i of 19 hells, weighing from four and a half tons to a few pound-. They will be the first in Australia. The range ol music oil a carillon is -.Hell that Beethoven may be played with the same siicce-s aa simple arrangement, lor ordinary hells. The full height of the tower ill which tile carillon will lie installed is I loft. 'l'lli-. and the fact that the University stand- on a hill will give the music ol the carillon a wide range. It will Ileal out over the city, and will he heard even in the -üburbs. Carillon eiiiircrt.- at the l niversity will also he possible with tic memorial. It i- t>roI■:• I• I• ■ that when tlio t-aril! oi i- in-tailed

in abmi a veer an cxoeri nlayei from abroad will he engaged, in order, also that lie may instruct tlio.-c at the I’nivcfsitv ill the Use of Ibe bell-.

SYDNEY CITY YAI.FES. SYDNEY. 4ii ne o

The changes that are rapidly taking place in Sydney, due to the con-tllie-

tion of the city railway, will he e-pee-ially marked in Klizaheth -treat, which was something of a dead street coiilniereially not -a many years ago. In a Near nr two it will be one ill the busiest street- not only in Australia, but in the world, for three big railway stations are to lie built against its edge. This new trail’ll’ will inllueme the trend in prices of land along the whole ol the long street, another laetnr stimulating property value- there being II vile Dark, which gives the street only

me business frontage along it- most important section. and which will he

the site of one ol llio biggest station-. St. .1 nines'.-. The s torv i- told of a man. who. three years hack, purchased a site for business premises in the heart of this new station site at £'JO!) a loot. Later he had to -ell it. owing to altered business plans, and had to get out at a loss of c lll'.ill. The xamo property is Worth to-day easily XiS'tV.l per foot. There ure not a few peonle to-day who would like to buy pronorty between King and Hunter Streets, for in this neighbourhood values will go up like a rocket, w ith the new (iovei iiment Savings Bank, a new theatre, as well as another new theatre a few yards oil. and the probable extension ol Martin place. Alo-l of the land round here, however, is tied no in established ownership, I’or the man of faith and strong vision, there are fortune- in Sydney to-day. iu-t. as there were when the streets were largely tracks for wool teams.