AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

IOSIRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLS ASSOCIATION. PE: KO.X TRAGEDY. ißoceivod tins day ;it U.'Jo n.r.1.) SYDNEY, .May 8. At the inquest on the Parkers’ victims of the Reckon tragedy, the jury fullikl that, the children were drowned hut there was not sullii ii-nt evidence to .-llow by what means the mother drowned Isors-df. btiL probably iu a lit of tempi rary insanity. The father also drowned himself. 'HIPPING FREIGHT INCREASED. SYDNEY, May 8. The Inter-State shipping companies announce tie- increase in freights hetweeii mainland i-orts liv gs to .‘is j>er ton on all cargo shipped after the 18th. 'lie- lea oi given for the inerease is that the Int i-r-State trade for some time has been uiiiviiium'rative. SHEARERS' DEMAND. SYDNEY. May 8, In re!■ ■ I.■ 11 -.■ to tin- threatem- l siiearstrike, the Secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union announces that tie- publi'lied slati-inents are imoiiicial. '! he only action taken by the Union i-. tlie lodgement of a claim with the Arbitration Court for varying the pastoral award. TP.ERATi IA RE-FI.DATED. SYDNEY. May 8. Tbe - tea ni:-r Trehartlm lias been re-tie:-'.d. aoil E apparently undamaged. Alter |.-loading her dis-liiirged carp) she proceeds to Rabaul.

APPI-EM. DISMISSED. SYDNEY. May !).- The Apical Court dismissed the appeal of M.'limes. EEEK< f G.N SHIPPING. (Reeeivei! this ilav at 10.‘do a.m.) SYDNEY. May ft. ’lb.- de,l-niii to abandon all tlie wool -ah-, i ill the first ol July was received w'lh ci 11 -Li•it ia I inn 1 iy- the overseas -.hipping trade. It will have a serious - If---l • u ihe export Ira do for the next i: i- -1 -1! i -..

'i lie < b,airnian of the Overseas Shi|>I'l'i : I’ent-esentnlivt-s Association said :h - a 1 a ndiei no nt of the sales would indict a hardship mi the .shipowners who bad :1 1 i-- -: -. I v despatched ships from the ■uhor si.ie of tile World io take their pl.t- o in tbe loading 1-el lh- for the -ai -.. ami these ve-o-l- .mill,l

itiii find <• 111]>!■ i>-!i!i■!1 1 elseu hfii'. Apart n:i!l wool L 1: 1< ■ iv;b 111 <> I ! !•" r| Hi ill I. I Mi' 1111 employment Ini' sllippill.n i i iiiii A list ralia to the (’lilted Kinodoni. Tin 1 i iilv oilier l aryn is win-at wliielt Ini' ’m* Mi i.dueed In a Ia m I i'i ir!< liniiro. wo.mkx and Till': ( iinicn. .MKi.ltontXi:. Alfiv !>. ,'il tlic Aiiiilii-an ('liiiivii ('nnl’oroneo i‘i- ; • ;> ( raiiswiek made a mae appeal in laviiiir el alloVi iiie women to speak in la t lie pulpit. Women had often Mtveil i nil. al situations. have home the heaviest l.nr.lonx and have led the el: a i'> he., in | he! V ad valu e. I lean ( roiiv, in dealing \, ith Ihe (ptestiin of modeni amusements said that many voinm. people wen- making an nnmi;iuated niiisanee ol (liemselves ho-nmo the hMieih ol their 1 1'eednm ha I to: d the -: ~ • i:: I: of their s "if-:-."!: I I'o!. Sail' ei 1 1 s had proved the!' title I" t!i • imah t'ii do jeiiat ion of i'apa'M's for they were nisi wildly liappiim. in the wind. An overwhelmiipj; n.aioiiiv of einhlren < ver six aiI'll the pieinre 'hows where lltey met a di-idav of liixnrv tinder a in nit" i i ’doty aml mornh-iim it ion it sadaions pi lares veiled hy •p-eeiottv vi rt in:-II v was a moral druy 1 ratin' as ihim’.eioils ,".s the opluta i i - ;h". M id.llOl'l’XK'X Sl.t'.M ( OXDITIOXS. MKI.IiOritXK. May !). T ; ’ !’"V. |! a ye> who is visiting hisI ralia i i eoiinee! inn with tin- Toe If. I: aive; ■ll ■ 111 11: h| a elite; that he had , j lie,| a M. Ihonrue llldilsj rod area ■!. ;-e le. od a I and 1,1: 1 1 Honed out ol ; I", doers. lie was ast on tided that . • h deadlv plan s existed ill a now ...... They vel o will's • Iha II the I .oil - .] n ..ham-. No w onder l hey hi ed , rintI ill: ! ..