AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[by TELEGRAm —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

ANOTHER TEN .MILLIONS. MELBOURNE, September -I. In the House of Representatives, tile Treasurer announced that a newlocal loan of C 10,800,000 carrying six per cent at ninety-eight was being . issued mi September Stli. This is lbs only new money proposed to be raised for the current financial year. The loan will be free of State but will be subject to Commonwealth income tax. A CORRECTION. SYDNEY. September I. Correction. The i.s-me price of the Commonwealth Loan is t'SJ. PHILIPPINES EARTIIOUAKE. MANILLA. September .T. A severe eatlifpiake was reported in Mindanao on Sunday, the town of Cuntihm in the Surigao province being damaged. Authentic defails are unavailable owing lo a disruption of telegraphic commiinication. GENERAL ROTH DEAD. SYDNEY. September 1. Obituary—At Noumea. Brigadier-Goner,-d Rotli. aged sixty-six, a prominent medieui man wlm was a member of General A. Godley’s staff in Egypt and Era me. The widow i.s a Christchurch lady. DOUGLAS AIAWSON TRAGEDY. WOMEN STILL AI.IVK. .MELBOURNE. Sent. 1. Private advice received from Darwin states that the whereabouts of the missing women from the Douglas Mawson lias been established. Both are still alive. FAST STEAMER SERVICE. BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE. Sept. -I. Proposals for the establishment of a fortnightly fast mail, passenger and chilled meat steamer service between England and Australia arc now being considered by the Federal Government The total capital for such a scheme would he nine million sterling. It. h proposed to build six vessels of twenty thousand tolls gross, at an estimated •ost of eight millions. The vessels arc ( ;-i he constructed in Britain.

The inaugural fleet will steam twenty knots and the additional steamers for the weekly seiviie will steam twentytwo knots at sea. and if then practicable twenty-four knots. They will carry four hundred first, three hundred second. and fifteen hundred third cln.s--passengers. The proposals involve the payment nf a subsidy by the Commonweal' Government. The route will be via Suez. TALLOW SAGES. SYDNEY. September 11. At the tallow sales 087 casks were offered and (IRS sold. The best were unchanged, the others showing .sixpence to one shilling advance.

MAlloN EXECUTED. SYDNEY. September lb Malum was execute.l without a hitch. He walked to the scaffold firmly and did not speak, lie met his death sto i cully. WHALING RESEARCH* SYDNEY. September :1. The Cohmia I (Hire i- a ire living with the South Georgia marine station t-co-perate witli Captain Scott's shin, U" Discovery, in whaling reverrh in tie Antarctic in 1025.