AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

JtEaiKiVLIAN .AND N.Z. OABLB ASSOCIATION. .MINERS’ SAFETY. SYDNEY, June 23. The New- South M'nles Cabinet fins appointed a Royal Commission to enquire into tlie safer working of the coal mines. -M AX AG EALKXT" S UI /IT AIA T U Af. SYDNEY, June 23. The Commxji-, wealth Shipping Board decided not to insert the chaise in the •ships’ articles demanded by the men. ■

' if the men decline to sail except on these terms, the. management of ihe, ' line "ill tie up the whine licet. BISHOP GIIYXEY DEAD. PERTH, June 23. The death is announced of the Right Rev. Doctor Gibnoy. the former Roman Catholic Bishop of Berth, who, since 11)10. had been living in retirement. The death of Dr. Gibnoy removes j an interesting -link with the days of ' the Kelly Gang of Bushrangers. Father Gibnoy, as Jig then was. at great personal risk, entered the hunting building where the Kelly Gang were surrounded at Glonruwan. in Victoria, and administered the rite- to the dead and tvo uncled. PA K LI AM ENT SITTINGS. SYDNEY. Juic 23. The New South Wales Cabinet, lias decided to recommend to the Caucus for ratification a proposal that I’arFfaiiirnt shall sit only from, ten in the morning to six in the evening. N'.S.W. better production.

(Received this day at 10.15 a.in.) SYDNEY, June 2L During the Confereme of Dairy Factory Alanagers it was estimated that InJune .30th. New South M’ales would have produced II A. 000,000 pounds of butter, with an additional five million pounds made on the farms and .sold ns dairy butter. This is a record prod net ion. The previous best was one hundred million pounds in 1921-22. During ihe eleven months ended ALty 31st. last ,312,,05 boxes of butter " ere gi tided for export. The previous best was 700.00(1 in 1021-22. Of the boxes graded this year -12.20 per cent was choicest, 23.5 first grade anti 25.21 second grade. The President in his address stressed the importance ol a national brand and pointed nut the singular success achieved by Australian butler situs' till l Kangaroo brand had first been placed oil the home markets. For the first- time in liislory Australian butter hud led the produce' of New Zealand in point ol price, which meant gualitv.

\ ( ALE ACCEPTED SYDNEY. June 21. 'lhe Rev. R. Stewards, of M'avcrley. has aeeeuled a call to the Jjerhampiiro Baptist Church, AYellingtou. WOOL CONTROL. SIR JOHN HIGGINS’ SC lIEAIE. A 1 EL-BOURNE, June 2r. Before Hie Confereme of Wool ('rowers. Sir John Higgins submitted hischeme for stalulisat ion and the regulation of Australian ws.-ol values The main proposals were that the wool growers of the Commonwealth should voluntarily lorni an association mutual in ilia r.-tet or. for the purpose of giving, as far as ] raetieahle. greater regularity and greater stability to wool values; that stlch association should ne-

t(uiiv Hie wool clips l,v appraisemon methods; that the realisation of slid wool clips he made tinder the direetioi of the Association by nroper peelniiea and mile! live marketing methods, that all reo-eint- and expenses he roeordci. by the A-si h-ia t ion and the lialanet distributed as payment fig- jhe wool acquired. Sir John Higgins suggested the capital should be fifty millions sterling, half ill wo.nl certificates and lialf ill pound sterling shares. Initial arrangements for the fund would tie made in London by the Federal Government w hich would he asked to guarantee the Association until sufficient capital had been subscribed. Sir John Higgins considers the Federal Government would ho justified in asking the Imperial, the New Zealand and the Smith African Governments to co-operate in the wool circles. It is considered probable the scheme "ill be adopted with modifications. A.MERK’AX COAIAIERCIAL INTEREST. (Received this day at- ]() n.m.) SYDNEY. June 2-1. With a view to Inn ter serving American exporters in the Australian and New Zealand area, the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the I’nited Stales intends opening an oltiee in Sydney on the Ist. July, and the American Trade Cum in issioiier, Air Babbitt, will lie in charge.

MB 111 COCBT J FDGM FNT. M FI,BOURNE. June 21. The High Court lias delivered judgment. for plaintiffs in the ease in which the Cnion Steamship Coy. sued the Superintendent of tile Mercantile Marine. The judgment is expected to have far-reaching,' elfeels as the Court held tin- Cnioui.il Laws Validity Act applied to the Commonwealth of Australia and that the provisions of the Navigation Act. relating lo the engagement. and discharge of seamen were invalid and repugnant, the prnvsions of the Imperial Merchant Slopping Acts relating to that matter. I-TTVKH A FSTBAI.IA N GOVERNORS. MELBOURNE, June 21. The Victorian Itoveriunenl decided not to support the proposal ol the Premiers of other States that a request he made to the British Ministry that only Australian citizens be appointed Stale Governors in future. FLOOD WATERS FALLING. SYDNEY, June 21. Flood waters at Richmond are gradually receding. Farmers who removed their rows to the high land erected temporary bails, and after milking the cows forwarded the milk over miles of Hooded country h.v motor launch to the factory at Windsor. The worst now appears to be past, but it will bo several days before communication byroad is restored. CHARGE OF MCRDER. ADELAIDE. June 23. During a League football match at Berri on Saturday, a. quarrel occurred. and it is alleged ’William Harold Oliver, a prominent inter-State player struck John Purcell, who died in the hospital yesterday. Oliver has been arrested and charged with murder. BUBONIC PLAGUE. BRISBANE. June 23. A suspected ease of bubonic plague has been discovered in the city.

BRISBANE. June 23. The suspected case of bubonic plague is a young woman, employed in a laundry. She developed symptoms which were clinically diagnosed by two doctors as suspected plague, but a conclusive bacteriological examination has yet to be completed. Meantime the patient was removed’ to the infectious diseases hospital, and othei stringent precautions were adopted.