AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

IUHTKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A ROM I! OUTRAGE. (Received this day at 10.55 a.nt.) MELBOURNE, April 9. Aai outrage occurred at East .Malvern when, what is believed to he a bomb was exploded on the front verandah of a house owned and occupied by .Miss Dora Sclintuberg. So far the whole affair is shrouded in mystery. The efforts of Llie police at present are directed towards the tracing of a man and his wife named Waldron, who hurriedly vacated the house on AlotuJ.iy, without giving an explanation, though the lease had three weeks to run.

The police incline to the theory that the bomb was left hv some person with the intention of doing harm to the Waldron's, whom they believed to he still in occupation.

Miss Schaltzherg and a neighbour’s child were the only occupants ol the house at the time of the (Explosion hut beyond a fright and shock both were uninjured.

AI.IG R ATI ON AGR KEM ENT. SYDNEY, April 9

The terms of the new migration agreement concluded between the British Government and the Commonwealth have been announced by Aft- Bruce. The agreement piovides tor a sum ol twenty million sterling being made available to the States at interest of two per cent for the first five years and 5) per cent for the second five. This amount will he increased to thirtyfive millions if the three States of New South Wales, Victoria and West Australia decide to merge the existing land seitlmout agreements into a new agreement which has been entered into. The British Government is providing interest on the amount so advanced to the States to the extent ot one half for the first five years and one-third for the succeeding live. The balance ol the concession to the States is being provided by the Commonwealth.

FLOATING DOCK. .MELBOURNE, April 0. A denting dock of thirteen thousand tons is going to he constructed at Walsh Island for the State Government, at an estimated cost of L'.'IOO.IHM sterling, of which the Commonwealth Government will contribute £120,000. The dock will he used mainly for comme rein 1 purposes. 1)1? CH APPLE. FREMANTLE. April 0. Dr Chappie is a passenger by the Orama en route for New Zealand. POLITICAI, AGR K EAI ENT. SYDNEY. April 9. An agreement between the two political parties within the State Coalition for the term of the new Parliament was ratified by respective meetings of the Nationalist Party and Coalition Progressives. The agreement is pinc-j tit-ally the same as during the last Parliament. 0 OVER XOR-GEXER A 1 SYDNEY, April 9. The Governor-General, Lord Foster, speaking at the show said when his term of office expired at the end of the year, he intended to return to England. INQUEST VERDICT. MELBOURNE, April 9. At the inquest on the death of Phillip Woolcoeks the Coroner returned a verdict that he died from a self-inflict-ed wound.