AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AtJBTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LAND EXPEDITION IMPOSSIBLE. (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) .MELBOURNE, July 22 According to furtcr advice from the administrator of the Northern Territory, it is found to lie impracticable to send an expeditionary force overhind to attempt the rescue of tlie women alleged to he survivors of the Douglas Mawson. A sea expedition is being organised and sails in tlie schooner Huderslield. The territory to be searched is probably the least known part of the whole continent. The aborigines, who arc far from the Roper Island mission, have come little into contact with tlie whites and are naturally hostile to strangers and their enmity may he increased by the unfortunate experiences with tlie Malay Trepan" fishers who have paid flying visits to their coasts.

SWIMMING RECORDS. SYDNEY, July 22.

In reference to to-day’s cables, the International Swimming Federation’s decision on tlie question of records is the outcome of the Australian Swimming Federation seeking to have Sydney Domain Baths recognised as proper baths for the milking of records. It is understood the Federation did not press for recognition of Charlton s Sydney records in view of tho later records at the Olympic- Garnet.

CORONER’S SEVERE STRICTURES DUNEDIN. July 23. At the inquest on 'Thomas Peattie Kirk. 42. married, who died suddenly last Wednesday after discharge front the hospital following on less than -18 hours treatment lor a fractured leg. the Coroner criticised the tact that the man wi’-s allowed to walk from the hospital to his home three hundred yards away, the Coroner generally condemning the casual manner of discharge adopted in this ease. He added that it was fortunate the medical evidence showed that walking had no direct hearing on the cause or dentil, which resulted from a clot, of blood, dislodged from the ankle, reaching the. left lung through the general circulation. 'The wife’s evidence showed that ittook decease:! over an hour to walk home.