AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

kCBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

CRICKET FINANCT

SYDNEY. July 20

The annual report and balance .sheet of New South Wales Cricket Association shows it .surplus for the year of £l(i!).'l sterling, against CD 18 for the previous year. The surplus from inter- | State cricket amounted to £llßl. STRIKE SETTLED. SYDNEY. July 2(5. The strike tit Balmain Colliery is •settled anti the mine reopens on .Monday. ASSOCIATION REBUKED. SYDNEY. July 2(5. In the Arbitration Court. Justice Link rebuked the Federated Engine Driver.-’ and Firemen’s Association of Australia for threatening to strike while its plaint was before the Court. His Honour said it would be inconsistent. with tin' dignity and inde|iende!ice of the Court to proceed further, and lie refrained from making a filial award. :j children burned. SYDNEY. July 2<i. Three children were burned to death when the house of a settler named Walker, in Warragui district wa- totally destroyed. The father was setting traps on the hills at the time. The umber put the children to bed and left a lighted lamp beside them. She was working in a detached kitchen and failed to notice the fire until it was too late to enter the burning room and the wall had sma-lied in and was unable to save tho children.

(.M’KKNSLAND SUH \K ( ROB. BRISBANE. July 27. (Queensland's sugar crop i- expected to yield U 211.000 tons, a record. RKCIBROCIAL TRADE. SYDNEY. July 27. At the comcrcial traveller’s annual banquet. Mr Prat ten. Federal Minister ol Customs, -aid the Covernment were giving close attention to the question of reciprocal trade with Canada, an extension of the reciprocity treaties with New Zealand anil South Africa, and also some practical assistance to the development of trade with the eastern countries. FFDERAI. BU DO FT. .MELBOURNE, July 27. It is forecasted that Dr Earle I’ttge, in Ids budget -pecch on Thursday next will announce a reduction in t lie Federal income tax. by two millions ,-terling. Other tenturcs will be more money for defence. There will be reduction in the Custom- tarilf duties. Help to primary industries will lie proposed for marketing their surplus products. There al-o will be a reference to trade reciprocity with Canada and other dominions. STRIKE ON STEAMER. ADELAIDE. July 25. The steamer Waimarino, loading wheat at Wallaroo, lias been held lip, following on the deei-ion of the agents to engage tally clerk- outside the Clerical I'liion. Tlic Watcrsiders struck in support ol the clerks, and declared the steamer black. .MELBOURNE. July 27. Alexander Walker, father of the victims of the Warragui tragedy, was badly burned ill endeavouring to save the children. When be saw tlm flames lie rushed to the house, and attempted to climb in through the window, but lie was driven back. Then lie got an axe, and smashed in the side ol the lioii-e. but the room was a roaring mass of lire. He bad to retreat. Ibe children, probably were then dead. !l lie had arrived a few minutes earlier, they would have bell saved. Hie j nearest liou-e was a mile and a halt away, and the parents had to attempt a rescue unaided. XI’.W SCHOOLS IN N.S.W. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) SYOMA . July 28. During the pasl two .'ears 11,7 new | schools were built in the State, three j hundred remodelled or ,added to. and three hundred renovated, stated the Minister of Education, who said lie was asking for an additional grant ol COtn.lH!,). RF.I lEF FOR HINDER BEST SUFFERERS. MELBOURNE. July 28. The !• • dcral t Itivnriiuieiit ha- decided to grant ten thousand sterling to t lie West Australian (Joverninent for the relief of eases of severe hardship and distress, resulting from the riiiderpe.-t outbreak. Tie* Otieeusland. South Australian and Tasmanian (loreriuneiits have notified the Federal Treasurer that they have endorsed the project I to by the Loan Council for the co-ordination of Commonwealtlt and State borrowing.