AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

’(Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] NIGHT TENNIS IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY. Aug. 19. Municipal Councils are implored at different times to abate all sorts of noise nuisances. There are now vigorous complaints about night tennis. It has become so popular as to become a nuisance in some the suburbs. The complaint is made that tennis is now played until 11 o’clock and even later at night, with the attendant noise and glare of lights which give to the courts and their surroundings all the brightness of day. The councils have the power to control the use ot premises so as to prevent objectionable hours. The power, although, wide, is indefinite. So far the local courts have given no guide as to what can he classed as “objectionable noises” or “unreasonable hours,” hut it is considered probable that an embargo on the playing of tennis after 10 o’eleok at night would he within the section. A BRUTAL MURDERER. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) MELBOURNE, September 4. The husband of Mrs Curry entered the Fairfield Police Station and confessed that he committed the murder cabled 011 September 2. He said he first liit his wife on the head with an iron bar. She managed to struggle throng. 1 the bedroom window into the garden, fie chased her and she fell unconscious. He dragged her hack to the bedroom, laid her on the bed and slashed Her throat with a ra.-'.or. He made no explanation of the crime.

PUZZLE FOR VOTERS. SYDNEY. Sept. 3. The puzzle which the electorates will .have to solve to-morrow is illustrated by the advice given to the voters by the various parties. The'Federal Nationalists are asked to vote “Yes” to both questions. The State Nationalists are asked to vote “Yes” to the first question and ‘‘Yes” to the second. The Federal Labourites are asked to vote “Yes” t othc first question and “No” to the second one. The State Labourites are asked to vote “No” to both questions. QUEENSLAND RAILWAYS. BRISBANE, Sept. 4. In the Assembly, the Minister of Railways said the increase in the number of employees of the Railways De;.urbmout owing to the introduction of the forty-four hour week has bean approximately five hundred and approximate cost direct and indirect was £250,000 sterling. VICTORIAN RAILWAYS. , MELBOURNE, Sept. -I. According to a return tabled in tin) Assembly operations of Victorian Railways for the year ended 30th June last resulted in a deficit ot £182,308 sterling. The previous years showed a surplus of £25,942. V SCIENTISTS DISCOVERY. PERTH, Sept. 4. Parey, a scientist visiting Yilgarn field to examine the rocks discovered the oldest known stratum in the world, the age being over fifteen hundred million years. Madagascar Ips hitherto been regarded as having the oldest formation.