AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1924, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

IUSTUALIAN AND N.Z. CAUI.E ASSOCIATION PROVED UNTRUE. (.Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) AIELBOURNE. October 11. [senator l’eaive says he is satisfied that reports t<> the effect that two white women are held captive hy Blacks in the Gulf of Car| entaria territory" has been proved to he untrue. •So far as he can see at present, no further action is necessary, although he is awaiting the receipt of full details Horn tlie Huddersfield expedition. All reports seem to have originated from Doctor AA’ade’s black hov Sambo. The theory is that the stories were due to the presents.* in the district of two lady missionaries, one of whom had with her a half-caste child, for whom she was caring. They had visited the ahoriginics lamps and probably the attempts to tell of the white women’s visits had given rise to the alarming rumours.

JAP STEAAIER SERVICE. AfELBOURNE. October 13. Burns Philip Coy., announce the Tovoßisen Kaisa Cov., of Japan is about to establish a service between Australia and America for the carriage of timlier and general cargo. The first steamer in the new service, the Tukoyumaru is due at Melbourne this mouth. AA’HFAT Puuii. BRISBANE, October 13. Queensland wheat growers voted by 2410 to 320 in favour of n continuance of tho wheat pool.