AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

IUBI KALIAN AND N.Z. CAM,* ASSOCIATION. N.S.W. ELECTIONS. SYDNEY, June 8. Though the distribution of preferences has still to lie completed in a number of electorates and in one or two rases i lie issue is still in doubt with the probability of l.akour getting another seat in Newcastle, the position ol the parties now is Labour -15 Nationalists 82 Progressives 11l I lidepeiuielits 2 Protestant Labour 1 Should Labour secure Newcastle the state of the parl ies will be :- Labour -If! Anti-Labour II The defeat of the Covci imienl is now regarded as certain.

Mr Levy, Speaker in the Assembly, managed to escape defeat by a- narrow majority. TASMANIAN ELECTIONS. HOBART. June 8. The latest counts indicate the new Parliament will consist of sixteen Labourites and fourteen Nationalists, SEAMEN’S UNION. SYDNEY. .Tunc 8. Steps are 1 ring taken to form a new Seamen's Union. Tlm movement is being fo.-tcrcd by Thntiuu Campbell one of tlm original < raw ol the steamer Fords.laic, who wa- indefinitely suspended from member-hip of the Seamens Union when the ves-e! completed her round trip. 11.- is bitterly upp.--ed to the methods of Walsh, Johansen, Fleming and others. Shipping Companies intend to observe the same conditions as previously, now the Union is deregistered. No trouble has occurred so far in SvJnev. ill ships sailing at due times. At .Melbourne the Wyandru was delayed a few hours and the PiOoiiim at Biishane was held up owing to four tin-men being missing.

CALI. FOR SEAMEN. SYDNEY, .hum fl.

Tin' real ell'erl of Ihe inn of lli!' Seamen's l.'nion will lie tested to-day v. lii'ii tile Commonwealth Line inti-:ills ratline; for nva s lor I li«* Kro111n11Li11 nml Dilira. Calls will lie made in Ll:e same iiiiiimei' as pre-uribed in tlie caiii elleil award. A - llmre is known In Ire a larLV amount of miun11 1 liyn■ t‘ll l mi I lie waterfront it is tliii’.ioiit ]ilont\ ill mi'll will lie Inrtlifoinino. Til M IiKIMHtTKK QIT.STK >\\ M KiMiOl' I!XK. .lime 8. ('iimni<■ ntiti -j; mi the Lynns deportation from New Zealand, the Kedernl Sol it itor-Coneral (Sir Unbelt (larran) said Australia under its own mitral ion lawts lmd power m refuse to admit anyone not an Australian citizen. He considered that once limine aeccpted the deportee as a passenger, the j'Csponsibility for jieltino rid of or keeping him meanwhile lav with the Shipping b'o.i

RICH GOLD FIND. SYDNEY. June 8. A new rich strike of gold is reported from Lucknow, in ground adjoining tlm famous old l.uckimw fields. Hie rough panning of samples is stated a have yielded at the rate <-l 80 ounces of gold to the ton. The extent of the find has still to be tested. X.S.W. POLITICS. SYDNEY. Jone p. Defeated members ol the old Assembly tip to the present include eight Nationalists, one Labourite, and Doctor Fallow, a Democrat. Cabinet meets to-day to consider the situation. It is announced that their early resignation is likely. FLOOD DAMAGE. SYDNEY, June !). Large numbers ol those affected I.' (he Hoods, especially children are -tdl bring led by leva I minimi tec- in 1 1"' flooded areas.