AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association. 1 VICTORIAN POLITICS. MELBOURNE, Dec. 10. In the Assembly the Leader of the Opposition launched a motion of noconfidence in the Government, on the grounds of generally negligent and dilatory administration. CANCER IN N.S.W. SYDNEY, December 10. The annual report of the Public Health Department of Now South Wales shows that last year cancer occupied the second highest place in Lho death list and was nine per cent above the average of the previous five years. In the twenty years ended, 1921, the death rate from cancer had increased forty per cent, while the tuberculosis rate had decreased thirty-five per rent.

|,||<’E SAVING COUNCIL. MELBOURNE, December 11. The Australia Conference of Life Saving Societies adopted a motion favouring the formation of an Australian life saving governing body to he known as the Australian and New Zealand Life Savings Association. A further motion was passed that it was desirable there should he co-operation among all bodies engaged in life .saving in Australia and New Zealand for the purpose of uniformity of working arrangements. In the Assembly the censure motion was defeated by a party division. The House curried the second reading of a bill substantially increasing taxation oil individuals and companies. The new measure is expected to increase the revenue by £287,000 sterling annually.

COMMERCIAL ITEMS. MELBOURNE, December 11. Hides it re firm with good clearance n sellers favour.

Wheat.— Decomber-Jamiary (is 5d ; oats, milling, Is; feed, 3s fid to .'is 9d ; barley, English, Ls 9<l to 4s lOd; potatoes old till to £l2. new £l3. Onions £9 10s (kl to CIO 10s. KAROOLA DEADLOCK. PERTH. December 11. A further deadlock has been reached in connection with the Karoola, the Union refusing to supply a eretv under conditions which the owners refuse, to accept. STRIKE DELAY. PERTH. December 11. The Midland railway strike is causing delay ill the transportation of wheat which is accumulating at the sidings. acquitted. HOBART. December 11. An Italian, Killippo Earajoiii, was acquitted on a charge of murdering Quinn, cabled on Bth. POLITICAL. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dee. 11. The Labour ( aliens discussed the alleged Nationalist plot to bribe certain ineiiibeis of the. Labour Party, and decided to call upon the directors of the Labour daily newspapers in which the statement was first published, to appear before the CaucKs on Monday anil give a full explanation. Mr Bruxiser has lesigncd the leadership of the State Country Party, and Mi- But ten dinv. was elected in his stead, In the Assembly, Mr Bavin replied to Mr Lang's Budget speech which he said was unique inasmuch as it consisted largely of unworthy, shameful personal attacks on men who gave honourable service to the State. ICE LIKE. CRICKET BALLS. SYDNEY. Dec. 11 A remarkable hailstorm ruined Hie gardens and -dripped crops in ( orumolea district on the north coast.. Lumps of ice as big a.s cricket balls fell: ANTLt OMMVNIST MANIFESTO SYDNEY, Dec. 11 Mr Ploughing Deputy Leader of the State Pai'lilanie-ntary Labour .Party, who was the prime mover in the campaign for the exclusion of Communists from the Labour Party, lias issued a manifesto in which be states communists .should be kept out of the Unions in order to protect the organisation against their treacherous activities. This would not present any great difficulty in view of the laet that industrially eligible men are kept out of unions to-day, for less important reasons than the protection of these bodies against organised treachery. The Communist thesis of tactics affirms it to be the duty of all affiliated bodies to fight the Trades Unions bureaucracy from within, in order to Transform Trades Unions into a revolutionary mass organisation. The clear duty therefore of Trades and Labour Council, which is affiliated with Moscow and of every member of the Communist Party, is to destroy the character and functions of Trades l nions in Australia and convert Unions into instruments for precipitating a revolution. 'The manifesto proceeds: ‘‘This, stated shortly, is the. explanation of the presence of Communists in a Trade Union and supplies an abundant rea--oii for their rejeetment.”

O V KR-S URSCRI BED BY HALF-A-MILLION. MELBOURNE. December 11. The conversion loan ol sixtv-sevei millions has been over-subscribed In half a million. NO PAPER INDUSTRY FOR TASMANIA. HOBART. December 11. Mr Coren, Director of the Amalgamated Zinc Company announced that the company has abandoned its proposals for developing the paper pulp and newsprint industry in Tasmania. The options for the purchase of timbei areas have also been abandoned.