AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

U7BTBALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION,

DISTL'II ItA.VCK AT TONGA

(lieceived this day at 10 a.in.)

SYDNEY. Julv 18.

The General Secretary of the Methodist .Missionary Society of Australasia has cabled the Rev. Page. Chairman of the Society’s Mission at Tonga, concerning the recent statements relating to the disturbances there, received a reply denying the whole report and stating that everything was peaceful.

hAIiOPI!. GOYEIiXAIEXT.

FO.R VICTORIA. ■MKI|ROi:.HN'K. July 17. Folllivvillir 0,1 t|„. defeat of tile Stillo -Ministry. Sir A. I’oacoek tendered the resignation of flip Cabinet. Tfo did fait advise flic Clovernor. who was to bo sent for. I lie (oivornor sent, for Mr I’rendorH.'ist ('Labour liPador). It is iimlerstofid the latter is now form ini' a -Ministry. NKW HI'INKA ADMINISTRATION' RKI’ORT TO I.KAOI’K. (Received this day ai 111 a.m.) -MKUSOCRXK. July 18. The report to the Leacue of .Nations on the Administration to Now Oilmen, which was tallied in the House ol Reps., states the total value of imports dnrine the year was JBoKS.-100, this heinj' an increase of £.‘{7.74 I over the previous year. The value of exports was £0.‘{(1,8!)2 while revenue from taxation amounted to JDloL\:I8l> ■is pared with £|:io,7Bo for the previous year. I he number of natives recruited durin othe year was 13.87!) an increase of -.d(18. Ilu* Ralianl district was divided into sub-districts, each district containin'' up to three thousand natives, these were periodically medically examined. lucre had been a striking improvement i n the eeneral health of the natives, and three schools had been established by the administration. The difficulty was to find a common lanftuaee. At the llokopo school there weie eleven pupil, s from different districts. whose tribal lanofinoes were totally distinct from one another. 'I Here was nothing: to indicate that slavery in the ecnerally accepted meanino of the term, existed anywhere in the territory. 'I here was no know n manufacture of the intoxicants by the natives.

KJ.KCTIUO \V()I! KIC US’ ST I! 1K K. AIKUiOIIIXIO. .Imy Is. The strike ill Alnrwell Inis lieeu extended and now six lilllidred men are all'eeted.

DiCATI I SENTENCE C'O.M.M I’TKI). (Hoceived this day at 10 a.in.) PEIiTH, .Inly IS. Cabinet has commuted the death sentence passed tin Aidinrii tn imprisonment lor the term nl his natural life. v utopian politics. AIEI.FiOrKNE, .J III V IS. Air Allan, leader nl' the Country Party in the State Assent lily, is disci milled over the notion of the GovernT sending for the leader of the Labour Party to form a Alinistry. Prior to the defeat of the Government. Air Allan declined to listen to overtures from Sir A. Peacock’s follower that he forestall Air Preiidergast in challenging the Alinistry. apparently believing that whatever happened. the Governor would send for him. .Militant members of the Country Party express gratilication at the advent of labour to ollice. If the moderate memhers. headed hy Air Allan assume an attitude hostile to l.almur the Party will lie disrupted.

CASE OF PI.AG FF. TIII'RSDAY ISLAM). July IS. The steamer Arafura Iron) Japanese ports, landed a ease of plague.