AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] HISTORIC HOME. SYDNEY, June 24. The old places are gradually slipping into oblivion. The splendour that lias clung about their old walls for so many years is gradually being effaced by time and dust. The sale shortly of one of the oldest homes in Australia— Claremont cottage, at Windsor—-will inevitably mark its passing, for it was built 130 years ago, only eight years after the first fleet arrived. AVindsor, which to-day is one of the haunts of the week-end motorists, was not even connected hv road with Parramatta, the cradle of Australia, when this old home was Imilt. Its condition to-day indicates the sound, honest workmanship that was put into houses in those days. The sandstone bricks in the old home, which have weathered tho storms and the stress cl 130 years, are a relic of the past, when rum and farm produce were the general currency. and Governor John Hunter was defeated by the stratagem of the runvl'linning officers of the corps which it was his business to discipline.

N.S.W. COMPENSATION. SYDNEY. July 2. A meeting of the Associated Insurance Companies, doing business under the Workers’ Compensation Act, decided to accept the Government’s rate of 20 per cent, for disease insurance. AVIATION ACCIDENT. MELBOURNE. July 2. In the Federal House, it was '-inhouneed that, following the recent succession of aviation accidents, a lull inquiry will he made into the ttlmle question of aviation in Australia. N.S.AY. BAIL SMASH. At the inquest on the Aberdeen railwny smash, the Coroner found, that the permanent way where the accident occurred was not, in a satisfactory condition to. carry the class of emrme used for the train at the time of the disaster. but the denths were accidental. tma ■mu ——sf