AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia it N.Z. Cable Association.]

OBITUARY. SYDNEY. September 21. Obituary.—fames Thomas Hutchison, indent merchant, horn in New Zealand I!) years ago. THEODORE RESIGNS. BRISBANE. September 21. Air Theodore has resigned his seat in the State Legislative to contest a seat in the forthcoming Federal elections. EMPIRE PRESS DELEGATES. BRISBANE, September 21. The Press delegates spent the week in the sugar-growing districts round Rockhampton and Bundaberg and wore informed that approximately P>() millions sterling was invested in the cane indii-tr.v, the estimated profit from which for the present year will be 12 millions.

GENEROUS ACT BEFORE SUICIDE. SYDNEY. Sep. 21. A seiisarional tragedy occurred at Bondi. F. Wond. a well-known poulterer, motored to the edge of a hundred feet cliff, scattered a quantity of money among children playing in the viOuity. and shouting, “ Here goes," jumped from the cliff and was killed.

ELEVEN CHILDREN INJURED. SYDNEY, Sop. 21. A motor ear containing a ntimlier of children returning from a birthday parly collided with a bus on Bellevue hill. Eleven children were injured, several severely. ONE CHILI) SUCCUMBS. SYDNEY. Sept. 21. One. of the children injured in the collision ha.-, succumbed to its injuries. AY REST LI NO. BRISBANE. Sep. 21. At wresting. Karasuek defeated Limufkin on points. Each secured n fall. GRANDSTAND DESTROYED. .MELBOURNE. Sept. 21. A lire destroyed the grandstand at Mentone racecourse, together with the luncheon, press, telegraph and other rooms. The lire brigade, owing to lack of wider, was obliged to stand by unable to do anything 111 st >;i the Haines. The origin of I lie lire is a mystery. A mealing was held at the euiir-e on Saturday. The caretaker made several rounds of the I,inklings during Sunday and saw nothug to indicate the possibility of lire. Tbe administrative offices i-senpcd.

MONEY RECOVERED. BERTH. Sent. 21

In i mined ion with the armed robbery at Demlierl'-'i. the police stale Ijiey recovered the money intact, slmrlv after, hidden in a hollow under a C Th-> discovery was kept a secret in the hope of finding the guilty person. Init so far the police have not succeeded. The Government offered a reward of £IOO for information leading la tin conviction of the offender . ALLEGED LIBEL. SYDNEY. Sept. 17. Tn the Supreme Court ease, in which .Mr Henley, member of the Legislative Assembly, claiming CollOO damages from the Labour Daily newspaper for alleged libel. Hie Judge upheld the objection by plaintiff.-; counsel that a Member of Parliament, muld not be examined in a court of law nil any of his statements in I’.uiji,ament. A I STRAI.AN STEWARDS. MELBOURNE. September 21. Tie Federal Arbitration Court has fixed a new general rate for marine stewards of L'l I LAs uionlhlv and keep. The hours in the terminal ports are to lie not more than eight, and at sea no. more than nine per ilav

.MOUNT' .MORGAN FIRE. BRISBANE. September 22. At present two streams ol water are playing on the Mount .Morgan lire, and conditions underground have somewhat improved. The none manager ami nispeetor were enabled In go below lo lie 750-fool level and they Here satisfied with Die progress made when thn third water main was connected up. ft will take three weeks to Hood the mine. A DENIAL. MELBOURNE. September 22. Mr Bruce denied that there was any truth in the rumour reported to have gained currency in Loudon that the Commonwealth Government intended Lo raise another loan shortly. As the result of an explosion at tinAshburton power-lmn.se on Saturday morning, at !).:D o'clock, Allred Saunders, the running engineer, received a compound fracture of the right lorearm. He was removed to the hospital, where an operation was perlormed. The Diesel engine, which was maintaining the electric [lower at the time, was stopped, and a- Saunders was restarting it, two of the valves blew out. Several ol the steel I ragmen Is Hew through the roof, two TOlh pieces living picked up several chains from the building. It is surmised that a piece of steel went through Saunders lure-

WI’KSTI JX'O. MELROI'HXK. Sept. 22. Miller defeated the Maori. Hobin (holder) for the, Australian heavyweight championship. OSMII! I lit I'M FIELD OYKHMIXED. lIOBAItT. Sept. 22. The (Invernnimit geologist, in a letter to the Secretary of Mines, regarding the Osuiij'idium field, says that from past experience, ami expressing the opinion <;t well-known osiniriditiin miners, he does not think the field is

i-apable of .supporting more than tnree him, lied men. At present, not more than (,ne hundred men are earning high wages. The field is ovor-ltiined. about one thousand men being camped is this hitherto uninhabited part of the country.

APPEAL FOR NATIONAL CNITY M EI.HOrRXK, September 22.

Mr Hr nee. speaking at the Agricultural Society's Inn.-In-iiii, steered clear ot political issues, lie unfitted hintsell to an iiiipa-'inned appeal for national unity and eompeiitioii between all classes and sections, thus enabling Australia L<» puss through the dark clouds which, at ilu> present, overshadow her, into the sunshine of greater progress and prosperity than evm known in her history.

Mr lirttee deprecated the efforts being made to foster class I',aired and disunity among the people. He strongly advocated the need to develop Australia’s trade and other opportunities, stressing the value in this direction of the immigration arrangements between the Hritish amt Commonwealth Clovermumits.

Ml! THEODORE’S SOFT SOAP. BRISBANE, September 22. Mr Theodore, interviewed, said Mr Hritee, in his recent speeches, was trying to work nit hysteria and cloud the real political issue by raising the tearful bogey of the red menace. ’1 he political party best able to combat Communism or direct action was the Labour Partv who stood for constitutional action and realised the necessity for