AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BEDFERN MURDER. SYDNEY, March 30. To-day the man Aves was again charged with tbe murder of .Mrs Smith at Redfeni, with whom he bearded. Mrs Smith and her daughter were attacked while asleep. Miss Quirk awoke and threw up her hands to defend her head. The ring on her finger was cut clean through by a blow from the tomahawk. Aves. who was stated to Ik? the fiancee of Miss Quirk, lived with the family. Smith objected to this arrangement. It led to disagreements, and some weeks before. Smith went to live at AVo.vwoy, taking with him the two boys.

Aves, who is only 22 years old, was to-day remanded till April 30.

PRICE OF 'RUTTER. MELBOURNE. March 30, The wholesale price of butter has been reduced here by 5s per cwt. to I 15s per cwt. A RAILWAY SMASH. SYDNEY. March 31. A railway smash between Grafton and Casino, incurred at a late hour last night. The goods train was wrecked, the driver. J. Gleeson and the firemen, 11. Curnow, both of Lismore, being killed. The engine jumped the rails and the Lender was thrown on its side on the heavily laden trucks which were telescoped. Tbe guard, who was the only other person oil the train escaped injury. TWO SEAMEN DROWNED. ADELAIDE, March 31. While unloading stores at Cape Rord.i. Charles Robertson and Neville Barton, chief officer and seaman respectively, of the lighthouse steamer. Lady I.oeli, were drowned. GREATER SYDNEY. SYDNEY, March If). The Greater Brisbane scheme, as the first experiment in Australia of local government on- a big scale, is being watched with close interest in this State. The metropolis of Sydney is especially interested in the reform, because of file loiig-lalked-of proposal to constitute a Greater Sydney. Supporters of the scheme, while they agree in principle, differ as to the general lines that a Greater Sydney should follow. It is suggested, for exampa, that It should take over the trams, the electric light, the Water Board, and all the communal services of the metropolitan area. Greater Sydney, with such functions and such boundaries within its control, would, it, is estimated, have a population equal to that of Queensland and Tasmania under its control. Its I'eveiiue would he approximately five times Lhat of the Kingdom ol England it the days of Elizabeth. Just at the moment, however. Labour aldermen’s wild .schemes in tho city itself are serving to focus attention upon civic government within Sydney itsell, to the exclusion of any broader municipal proects. With the Reform Party in the Council utter!v impotent to stem some if these adventures —it can register a irotest and that is all—an agitation ins been revived for the dissolution ol he City Council, and for the appointnent of a Commission to govern the •ity in a sane, moderate, and businessike wav.

N.S.W. PARLIAMENT. SYDNEY March 31. The special session ends 10-moriow it ml it is expected the Government will dissolve Parliament almost imiuedialely. An election will he held about the middle of May.