AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

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SHOOTING RECORDS. .SYDNEY, June 21. Shooting at Mudgee Ranges, S. Gentle, of .Mudgee. established a world’s record, registering forty-six consecutive bulls at six hundred yards.

| BUTTER PRODUCTION. (.Received this day at 10.2-1 n.niA SYDNEY. June 25. Referring to butter production at the annual conference of co-operative dairy managers and .secretaries of Associations, .Mr Chaffey said the peak year was 1020-21, when the amount produced reached ninety-five million pounds. Last year the total was sixtytlnee million. This year it appeared likely to reach sixty-five million. He said as this variation resulted largely Irum the amount of feed available, it seemed that more attention should lie given to feeding, and the necessity lor food conservation, liver production was tlie greatest myth ever preached. The real finable was under production, because it meant they were unable to maintain their export trade. President Stoner, in a review of the year, said the lot of daily farmers during the last two years had been an unenviable one. It bail been one of the I most erratic seasons ever experienced. Air Alaclnnes. the State dairy expert. said tlie reports from London showed New Zealand butter had gone hack, and New South Wales had come out on top.

DISTRICT JUDGE. SYDNEY. June 2.1. Cabinet had decided to appoint D. S. Edwards to the district court bench in succession to Judge Hamilton who i.s retiring. SUNDAY GAMES. I BRISBANE, June 2.1. Cabinet ba.s deeided not to interfere with the decision of the City Council to permit Sunday -nine*. [ STEAMER WRECKED. HOBART. June 2-1. The small steamer Seymour has hoen wrecked on Darlington heath. Details are meagre. It is presumed the vessel went ashore during the heavy gales that prevailed dating the week-end.

CLAIM FOR ESTATE. MELBOURNE. June 2.1. Two working men. brothers. John and Alexander llorroeks. have departed for England to prosecute claims to llorrocks estates, comprising properties in Wigan district, Lancashire, including the famous Horrocks calico business and numerous coal mines, said to he producing an income of nearly a million annually. The brothers seemed funds to make the journey and prosecute their claims by issuing ten pound bonds entitling tlie holder to receive a thousand sterling in the event of tlie claims proving successful. These wore freely subscribed. Tlie estate has been the subject of litigation for many years.

WHEAT YIELD. .MELBOURNE. June 25,

The wheat yield of Victoria for 192:121 season was .‘17.70.1.701 bushels, an average of LI. I bushel- per acre. STORM DAMAGE. SYDNEY, June 2-1. A report from the .southern States and (-(unitiv district-, shows the fiercest gale of many years was experienced on Monday night. Fences, electric poles and hiiihling.s in ionise of erection were blown down in Wiadongoiig district, ami rools were partly torn off many houses. ’file wireless aerial ul the steamer Benella. between Adelaide and Melbourne. was earned away by a ninetymiles per hour hurricane. Vessels in Bn.'* Strait suffered sc. vie buffeting.

FOOTBALL IN DARKNESS. MELBOURNE, dune 21. Di a football mail’ll al Walhalla. two halls wen* punctured before a third was obtained, and. with the game half through, darkness fell. Huge flares Were lighted at each goal, and the match was finished in their light. The scores wen* signalled by the waving of tlaming slicks.

RUGBY I.HAGUE IN N.Z. (’Receive*l ihis day at 0.25 a.in.) SYDNEY. June 25. I.amain. Malinger ni the I diversity League football team, referring to the tour, said New Zealand relerces were hot an lait with the ore recent alteration- of the rule-.. lb- instance- the Auckland team, w nidi lie said kicked goals from marl-:-, *!o-nite the recent ilcci-ion of the Rugby League against ibis. The play the ball rule was also differently interpreted in the Dominion. I.am-iro paid a high tribute to the hospitality of all with whom the team came in contact, anil ili-'> the sportsmanlike attitude of the crowds. He refused to comment on the action of the Chri-.Jiun h Rugby I nion ollieia I-', who intervened to prevent the use of l.aiieaster Park.

WII!I.F.I'NS IMIOADCAKT'ING. MELBOURNE, June 25. It is slaleil that the Federal Cabinet- has reached linalitv with its new proposals regarding the control of wirole-s broadcasting. Ii is expected that new regulations permitting the sal*' of open sets will he gazetted on Ist. .)idv. It is understood a broad-ea-ting company with a capital ot two hundred thousand sterling will he lortn- ,..| take over all broadcasting iu Australia. The new company will eumi , n.-ate the existing companies. I lie monopoly to he created will collect and piiv to the ( 'ommomvcnlth all license and other lees and part of the profits will he devoted to improvements ol hroadeasting programmes and wireless i e-ean h. Wit I■ the granting of pe:-tiii-sion for the sale ot open sets, the licensing fees will be substantially' increased! but a liberal provision will be made for experimenters’ licenses. CITY OF ADELAIDE LEAKING. (Hcceiveil this «lnv at 1 noun). HOBART, June 25. The steamer. City ot Adelaide, bound from Dunedin to I remautle. ba~ wiie-les-ed that site is leaking in the forepart and i- short of eoal. Ihe cargo |,as shifted ami the ship is putting into Hobart for repairs, and expects to arrive to-day. The reports indicate that the steamer i' in no immediate danger.