AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

IDSIEAI.IAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PARTY’S NAAIE CHANGED. SYDNEY, Aug. Iff. In tlie Assembly, Air Bruxner, leader of the Progressives, officially announejed the name of the Party has been I changed to tlie Country Party. SYDNEY WEATHER. I SYDNEY, Aug. Iff. The soaking rain and bitter cold of the past lew days continues, and the outlook for Saturday’s football is parlous. WAGE REDUCTION. .MELBOURNE, August 12. A conference of the employers is to he convened in the building industry immediately to reduco wages in certain trades and bring them more into conformity with the Wages Boards determination that the plasterers’ and plumbers’ wages he reduced from twentyiivo to twenty-two shillings. LABOR SETTLEMENT. SYDNEY, August 12. Port Jackson Coal workers' Union, one of the loyalist organisations formed during the 1017 strike, has been abolished, and under the agreement the Coal Lumpers Union admits its members. A State Labour Exchange is to he created to deal with the engagement of coal lumpers oil a rotary system. This is the outcome of the policy «f the Labor Government to deal with loyalist unions generally. head of police. A MELBOURNE. August 12. General Blaimed succeeds Nicholson resigned, as Chief 'Commissioner of Police. N.S.W. LABOUR LEGISLATION. SYDNEY, August 12. The State Parliament opens at noon. Amongst the chief measures dealt with in the Governor’s speech will ho legislation for a forty-hour week, pensions for widows, abolition of capital punishment. abolition of night baking, provision for adult municipal franchise, leadmission of civil servants to the Industrial Arbitration Court, extension of workmen's compensation, provision that when Auzac Day falls on a Sunday the holiday will he observed oil I he Monday. At a pro-sessional meeting it was decided to favour day sittings of Parliament opening at ten in the morning and closing at six to-night; also reverting to single electorates. HOTELS DK-LICENSED. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY. Aug. 13. She report of the License Reduction Board for twelve mouths ending December last, states the compensation fees for 1924 totalled £223.810. Thirtyone wiuehars in Sydney, and fifty hotels in the country were, de-lieensed. CAUSES OF YOUTHFUL DELINQUENCY. AIELBOURNE, Aug. 13. Doctor Argylo. Chief Secortary. addressing the Protestant Federation Convention, said the causes of youthfid delinquency were due. according to the report of the Chief Commissioner of police, to the decay of home life, want, of moral and religions training, and. picture shows of unsuitable nature. Doctor Argylo added llmi the Government was introducing a Bill to control very definitely the inllueiues for evil spread by certain types ol moving pictures. COAI I’UI.SOR Y CONFEREXCK. SYDNEY. Aug. Iff. Air Hibhlo. Chairman of the Coal Tribunal, has summoned a compulsory conference to meet on .Monday to discuss the general position of the coal industry, part ii Marly in the Alaithnnl field. QUEENSLAND LEAGUE TKAAI. BRISBANE. Aug. Iff. It is understood arrangements have heell practically completed by which the Queensland League team will tour New Zealand this season. AUSTRALIAN KAKAIERS CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 10.0 a.niA SYDNEY, August 12. The farmers and settlers Conference passed a resolution that wool packs should he made of wool instead of jute and that various woollen mills of Australia he asked to quote prices. It was decided to co-operate \vu.. the Victorian Farmers Fnion in trying to organise a Commonwealth rabbit skins pool as a means of controlling the pest. A Committee was .set tip to confer with the Farmers and Graziers Company with a view to formulating a scheme for a voluntary wheat pool next season, together with proposals for warehousing the wheat on behalf of the growers. DEPORTED G KRAI AN RETURNS. .MELBOURNE, August Iff. Karl Burgralf, German and formerly a resident of Australia, but who was deported during the war, has returned with an invention which he claimed as being able to divine mineral ores. It depenus essentially oil ehrgiug large fields with electricity, widen with the aid of the apparatus, indicates the presence or the absence ot mineral ore. Ine method has been used successfully in America and on the Continent. Thu invention is not for sale. German engineers would have been brought to’ Australia, to work it, Burgralf added, as the German scientists believe immense quantities ol ore exist untouched and unsuspected in Australia. and with proper development file country could become’" the greatest mining country in the world. AUSTRALIA WANTS OIL. AIELBOURNE. Aug. 13. The Federal Government has decided to withdraw its oiler of a reward or a Ikiiius of £50.090 for the discovery of oil in commercial quantities in Australia. and to authorise the expenditure of £50,000 iu certain areas ol New South Wales, West Australia and Queensland in which it is advised that there is a reasonable chance ol the occurrence of oil. marine court finding. SYDNEY, Aug. Iff. The Court of Marine Inquiry touud that the steamer Awarou was battered |,v a gale in Bass Strait, and that her master and crew were justified m abandoning her. The Court expressed the opinion that the vessel at the time of abandonment would not have remained atloat any length of time. H tiirllier found that the. vessel was apparently seawortliv and not improperly loaned or overloaded, lmt the Court was unable to determine the cause ol the leak. CHARGE OF All"111)HR. PERTH. Aug. Iff. At the inquest on Ruby Yen (cabled yesterday i the Cononer found that death was due to poisoning and suffocation. Long Yen was committed for trial on a charge of murder.