AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABL* ASSOCIATION. PARTY TACTICS. (.Received this clay at a a.nt.) SYDNEY .May 211. A much trumpeted and an equally strenuous denied rumour that one party was engineering a repetition of the incident of burning the Union Jack which caused such a stir some years ago in order to bring discredit. on the opposing party drew an immense crowd to the Domain today. Due police precautions were laklen hut beyond much vo-al demonstration and llag Happing at various platforms and an occasional hit of Lor.se play nothing happened. EMPIRE DaY. SYDNEY May 2:5. Empire Day was celebrated with the u-u:d functions including sj ecial references in the churches. Arrived: Piri from Auckland. A LORD’S RUSK. ißeceived this day at 51.25 a.n.) MELBOURNE. May 2:i. Two months ago a young athletic Englishman arrived by the steamer Drama end sought information from the Immigration Bureau giving his name as Mr 15. lie said lie would go out hack and try his hand at things. After experience on a cattle farm in Gin; slant! and a wheat farm in Make he returned to town staying at Scot Is Hotel when it leaked out that the visitor was hiding his identity under plain clothes and heavy boots. He is Lord Apsle.v, heir to the Earl cd Bathurst who came to Australia to represent the ''.Morning Post” at the forthcoming Empire Press Conference, he spending the intervening time gathering . lirst-hand information and experience. .

JAP MURDERED. BRISBANE. May 25. A Japanese named Sato was found shot (lead at a farm near Atherton and a Kanaka named Harry towns has been arrested on a charge of murder.