AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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STORMY DEBATE EXPECTED. SYDNEY, Julv 21

The Assembly read a first time the Stopford Bill. Mr Ress presented the Ne Tcmerc Hill for tho second reading and a stormy debate on sectarian linos is expected.

AUSTRALIAN COLLIERY DISPUTES SYDNEY. July 21

As the result of the refusal of the management ol the Balmain Colliery to grant a demand for increased boring rates, the miners have struck, idling the mine. There are also eleven Northern collieries idle through strikes.

GOOD RAINS. (Received this day tit 12..T0 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 21. Good rains continue in the greater part of tin* State, including the wheat areas, where it will prove of great value to growing crops. BRISBANE TOWED OFF. SYDNEY. July 21. The warship Brisbane was towed off hy the warship Marguerite. At the time of the mishap she was following the course laid down in Admiralty charts many years ago. for sailing vessels. Lucidly tliese charts are considered obsolete and unsafe. The accident has led to a demand lor a resur-

A BABY ABANDONED. SYDNEY. July 21

A young woman carrying a baby, accosted a small girl in the street at Paddington, and asked if her mother would like a baby. The .girl replied ••Oh. yes,” and the woman handed over the child asking that it he treated kindly, and walked away. Ihe police were advised and removed the baby to the welfare home.

ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE. SYDNEY. July 21

An earthquake shock ol coiisidorahb* intensity, though not so severe as that recorded from the vicinity of the Maequarric Island at the end ol June, was recorded at the Riverview and Svdiicv observatories at 2.1 b yesterday d'tenioon. The position is calculated to ht* approximately 2io miles northwest of Auckland Islands, about i H'd miles distant from Sydney.

UNEMPLOYED To OPEN UP COUNTRY. SYDNEY. July 21. The Government Inis aunoiinccl it-, intention ol relieving the . uu»*iuplo\infill posit inn by sending the single men into the country to dear and prepare roads on the land intended lor closer settlement. Married men will la* round work within a ra-onahle distance ol the city.

ARBITRATION COURT REGIS TRATIOX.

MELBOURNE, July 21. Mr Preiidergasl’s Ministry has (alien into line with the l.ahotir Ministries 111 Other States in respect to the registration ot State public servants in the Arbitration Court, and a notice of the discontinuance of appeal against registration hv the Australian Public Servants Association has been given on behalf of the Ministry.

UOM.PULSDRY VOTING. MELBOURNE. .Inly 21. The House of Representatives passed a Bill providing lor the compulsory voting at the Federal elections.

PRIVATE Y. GOVERNMENT' COMPETITION. PERTH. July 21. The Government tramways showed ft loss of L’7o7 during June, the firsl biss lor a number of years. I lie loss i' attributed to competition hy th<* nccntlv inaugurated private motor hitservices. The Government intends to put a limitation on competition hy the buses which it proposes to run dsel mi certain routes.

PRICK OK BREAD. (Received this day at I 1 .2-• a.m.) MELBOURNE. July 27. Mr I’remlertrast inhumed a deputation asking that an inquiry he made ii • t ) the ret cot increase in the pi ice of bread, that one policy of the Ministry was to establish Stale Hour mills. A I,,mid of inquiry would he set up immcdmlclv to deal with the | rice ol bread. The Ministry was not going to let the I nee of bread go up without ]. UI >ll ci tv bei Hi! Riven t" whatever justification existed.

A BODY KOI ND. MELBOURNE. July 27. Kollow imr the disovery o! a skull at Chelsea, a black tticket discovered the decomposed body of a woman hidden iu the ti-tree. some distant e : "ay. Ihe body had apparently been there for some months.

SOI TII AI'STR.-YUAN POLITICS

ADELAIDE. July 2.7

At the opening ol the South Australian Parliament, the ( lovernor's speeeh foieeasted an increase of the income tax exemption, a reduction in membership of the Assembly from lb to c, he elected under a system of preferential voting. Steps are to he taken to create a State Insurante Fund: (hverument are cc.nsidcring the que.slion i f providing L-ii.-iI es-istiime lor poor persons; it’l | tissil.de step.s tire to he taken to raise the standard of education and prevent overcrowdin'!. WT.STRAI.IAN POLITICS. PKRTII. July 2A. Parliament opeued yc-terday. Ihe Coventor’s speech imlietited that a police of immigration and land .settlement'. combined "ith development of uatuml resources was of paramount importance. The -.-roup settlement sVsetm wliiih now totalled 121 units with a population . f St77Ci would he continued.

SI'.CTARIAN DKRATK. (Received this dav at 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY. July 27. The Assembly had tin nil night sitting on the Xe Temere Bill. C.overnnient applying the closure carried the second reading, hy by 17 to 32. and through the committee stages. Hie debate was at times "arm, bristling witn charges a.nd counter charges of sectarianism ami ulterior motives.

FEDERAL BUDL'ET. MELBOURNE. July -~ J - The Federal Budget will he delivered next Thursday. It as anticipated it will disclose considerable relief from income tax burdens. Political Prophet s, anticipations place the easement at two millions.