AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1926, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.) BIRTHDAY HONORS. SYDNEY, July 3. The birthday honours include— Knight of St. Michael and St. George, Sir Alexander McCormick, surgeon; Knight of the British Empire, civil division, Francis Greville Clarke (president of the Victorian Legislative Council); James Oswald Fairfax (Director of the Sydney “ AToniing Herald ”). Knight Bachelor, George Fail-bairn (Agent General for Victorin); George Mason Allard (Chairman of the Amalgamated AVireless).

STATE FINANCES. BRISBANE, July 3. 'File financial year ended with a deficit of £5.54,685 sterling. Railways showed a loss of £1,665,558. ADELAIDE, July 4. Financial returns for the year ended AA r ednesdny show the revenue was £10,473,294 sterling, an increase of £740,886 over the previous year. The expenditure was £10.4151.081, an increase of £781,044, giving a surplus for the year of £12,843. N.S. WALES REPS. (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.' SYDNEY, July 5. Owing to injuries Foote, Shaw, Lawton, and Alorrisscy arc unable to train to meet the All Blacks. It is doubtful if Wallace will be fit. Grossman, E. Ford, Al. Hessleln and AV. Sheenan have been selected to fill the vacancies. Trainees are now in quarters at Clove! I y.

KALGOORLIE INQUEST./ PERTH, July 5. At the inquest on the murdered detectives AA'alsli and Pitman the manager of the Perth Tailoring Coy, with a branch at Kalgoorlie, gave evidence that the pair of grey trousers produced in Court corresponded with material sent to Kalgoorlie. The trousers were made in the Perth Company’s workshops on a order sent from Kalgoorlie, in the name of P. Treffane. No other similar trousers of that material had been made by the Company. Witness also identified a suit found at the gold treatment plant as having been ordered in the name of Pitman. Treffane, in a statement to the police, said he had never been in possession of a grey suit similar to the trousers shown him.