MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1924, Page 4

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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V l d'O It lAN LA Rim CABINET. MELBOURNE, July 10.

M. l’lcndergust lias announced that his .Ministry will bo constituted as follows—. Prendorjfii,si (Premier and Treasurer); Tunnoelifl'e (Chief Secretary) ; Lemmon (Education and Labour) ; Ifogan (Agriculture and Hailways); Bailey (Lands and Water Supply). Slater (Attorney General and Solicitor-General), Jones M.L.C. (Public Works, Health and Immigration), MavXamarn M.L.C. (.Mine." and Forests). Honarary Ministers. Cain and Webber (.Member of the Assembly). BecKett and Disney (Legislative Councillors) Jewell (Government. Whip).

FEDERALLABOUR. M KLBOURXE, July 10. The Federal Executive of the Australian Labour Party decided not to receive or consider the repoit ol the spe -ini committee which recently heard the appeals from Bailey, Buckley, Sutherland and Bran.ston, who wore expelled from membership of the Australian Labour Party upon the recommendation of the committee which investigated the allegations concerning the fraudulent ballot uoxe-i.

Til E 100 METRES. PARIS, July 18

Four hundred metres filial: -Weismuller 1, Arne Borg 2. Charlton Time JO I l-."> ,seconds, an Olympic record. It was a thrilling finish and was won by a second and two fifths, Charlton being a second longer.

A DENIAL. SYDNEY. July If. Bunts, Philip ami Coy. win arc agents for the Tongnn Government have received a request from the Premier to give a complete denial on liehalf of the Toil,gan Government to ib.e statements contained in the reports of disturbances there, which except tor a slight trouble at Ynvau are entirely without foundation.

DOUGLAS MAWSON ENQUIRY. BRISBANE, July lib While the Queensland authorities generally seem seriously to disbelieve the Douglas Mawxin story, immediate steps will he taken to obtain the lllllest information from Darwin police. It is pointed out in nllicial circles that a must careful search was made of Gulf waters by the State without avail, and only recently the police from Darwin traversed the coast in the vicinity tallowing the discovery of wreckage. One state authority says many of these aboriginals had worked on the stations and were generally friendly. He considers it impossible that such murders could have been committed and the women abducted without, tidings leaking out in it few weeks instead of fifteen months.