AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ICIITBAUAN AND N.Z. OAnI.VI ASSOCIATION COLONIAL SI’DAR /COY. SYDNEY, May 0. At the half yearly meeting of the ( denial Sugar Refining Company, t). ■ Cliiiinnan said there would he a large e..\]nut'.ihle surplus if the milks were able to en’sll t !■(■ i ane.. M' -I "f the surplus was already sold.For the half year ended on the .'’lst of March last the nett profit. "as L i:>.T.O7-Y foiuna.red vi’.h fJ.Vht .'.I, A for tho I re, ioiij- halt year, T lie latest earning.- were mm 1 " up cl li’-’HI .!>•_’l from the Australian uulis and refineries. amt other investments subject to T’ede ra I taxation, and £ls-1.0.>1. represented and earnings in New Zealand, Fiji and ot.her investments not subject to Federal taxation. A dividend at the rale of ten per cent, per annum for the hall vear would he declared. It absorbs £3 b'band there is to he a bonus of live shilling,a per share which takes £lti!>.<i;jS. One hundred thousand pounds would he pltred to Ice reserve fund, and the balan e "( uld he carried forward. TASMANIAN EL El TIONS DA K XCI IsTON. May G. The general elections will ho held on the fil'd, of dune. Sevelitv-lour candidates have been nominated lot thirty seats. The i.llieial I ahoiir Party In s thirty candidates and there are two unofficial Labour candidates. The remaining I'urtv-iwo. owing to a lailure nt ;i || elfort < to unite the anti-Soeialist’s lories. are submitting thcm-elvo-under a variety i f names, i i.mprising “Nationalists." “The Tasmanian Liberal Party,” and the "Independents". A Sliri’ A.KiTORK. SYDNEY. May 7. The Trebartha. cabled yesterday, went ashore on a reef at Xasulam.m Island. All (Huts to refloat the vessel were unsuccessful. Although the position was not at lirst behoved to be serious, the latest advic - received indicate the vessel might become a tma wreck. At the time of stranding, tin Trebartha. was hound from Madang to Kttewieiig. the approach whefeo. isomewhat dillieuL of navtgation.

CUUIK’II CONGRUSS, REVISION OF PRAYER IftH >K . MELBOURNE. May '■ At the Australian Congress ui the Anglican Church, an address (•■nucnii,m the revision of the prayer book wus delivered by the Dean nl Bristol. Unglaud. the very Rcvd. E. R,r-nui-'hs Burroughs who was one of ox embers in charge of the prayer book revision when it vine I cbov the House of Clergy in R-:l. said the question had first'arisen out of a royal commission on ecclesiastical dnsoiplmc in 1900. The inadequacy ol sixteenth century forms and language and the necessity for softening the hard Lues of reformation theology, and the 1 soi|uent rules and prohibitions were recognised by the commission, but tl.ev desired no alteration m the doctrinai balance. The scope these proposals bad changed beyond recognition in a measure that came bolero the church assembly m b'-'b Ilu Dean dealt with the crucial position created l»v the demand tor reservation of the Sacrament. We ha,, been pushed step by step to a series of rubrics which, although s " 1n " tended, can in elfect he made to cover a iwrpetual reservation. Ibe ing lies in the fact that Anglo-Otlio ,c haulers have told us that straight , .duration in their ultimate aim. Main- of us are now wondering it we ought not to move back and say there will be no revision, if it m oulv a cloak for reaction. In conclusion, he appealed to his bearers on their attitude upon the question, to be and remain British.