AUSTRALIAN NEWS,

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1926, Page 3

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| Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] SYDNEY, August 18. The Marine Underwriters have been advised that about seven hundred tons of sound cargo were recovered from the steamer Port Kembla and is being taken to Kingston. A CONFERENCE. PERTH, Augst 18. A Conference of, Statisticians from each of the Australian States and New Zealand was opened under the Chairmanship of the Commonwealth Statistician, Mr Wiekens. Among the objects of the conference are to secure uniformity in the method of collecting, tabulating and presenting statistics and to endeavour to provide that statistics of the Australian States and New Zealand will bo presented in such a way that ready comparisons may he possible.

HECTIC LIFE ENDS. MELBOURNE, August 17

c. J. He Garis, previously cabled as having committed suicide, then later brought back- from New Zealand, was found, dead in his home, Mglboum*. to-day. The body was in the kitchen, and the gas from the gas stove was turned on. His death, which was due, to asphyxiation, ends a picturesque career. v , He Claris's Inst year’s escapade, when the deceased left a letter suggesting he had committed suicide and fled to New Zealand, from which he was brought back, was only an incident m a varied career. To-day’s tragedy, was the culnuna-tion-of his hectic life. Apparently Do Garis was living alone at the. time of his death.

A SUICIDE. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m-) MELBOURNE* Aug. 18. He Garis was engaged in oil boring operations near Morniiigton. He spent Monday night with his wife and fann y at Hawthorne. He returned to Morniiigton and sent a note to a plumber asking him to call at the house at noon on Tuesday where he would hud instructions under the mat. The instructions told the plumber to cut the gas off outside the bouse riml to he careful in opening the kitchen, which would be full of gas, where ho would he found, asking him to communicate with his wife and the police, adding: “I fell down on a big job yesterday and am paying the penalty to-day.” He Garis left a letter to bis wife, on bis body.. He lay on the table with his head in a gas stove and all the jets turned on and the windows down nnd closed.

A THREAT DEFIED. MELBOURNE, Aug. IS. Charleston defies the Labour Executive’s threat of expulsion unless he alters his attitude towards the referenda proposals. FEDERAL PROPOSAL. MELBOURNE, August 18. The Commonwealth Government has I invited the AVesffralian Government to surrender to the Commonwealth all! territory north of 26th parallel south latitude, with the object of setting up a form of Crown colony. The Government purposes a local administration similar to that operating in Papua. The Commonwealth Government assuming liability for loan money of £2,700,000, which has been expended in development; Such an arrangement beside providing a scheme for the better development of the area would help to relieve the financial position of AVestralin. , The Legislative Council passed the] film censorship bill to provide at least a thousand feet of British film, and also empowers the censor to make it a condition precedent to passing any particular film that children under sixteen shall not be admitted to any place of amusement where it is exhibited. attacked by dogs. MELBOURNE, August 18. Three dogs owned by a dog breeder, with whom Mrs Olsen, aged 80, lived, attacked Mrs Olsen while she was alone in a. yard and frightfully mangled her. Neighbours were afraid to enter the yard but attracted the attention oF animals enabling Mrs Olson to crawl into the house. She died m .a few hours from wounds. The dogs were shot.