AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1926, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

f Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) i I PARI.IAM FNTARY DELEGATES. I SYDNEY, September lb. I The Umpire Parliamentary delegates I Were rn.torlainoil :d a banquet by I lie '■ l umnnmwonlih Cnverumeul, the Act- I in Pi into Mmister, (vlr Rage, prosid ] iilg. The sue:‘-hes generally emphasised ihut Die purpose of the mission of the ! delegation was to enquire into, and as far as possible to find a solution for. Imperial problems, particularly ns regards the settlement of Britain’s surplus labour. Senator Grant, the deputy-loader of the Federal Labour Thirty, in recomlinj, Ho welcome to the visitors, said, inter alia, that ho could assure them flmt. there would he a sharp conflict ol opinion if they thought they were going to induce more people to come to AusIv a |i:i than employment'could be found for. Lon! Salisbury and -Mr Arthur Henderson. replying, assured Air Grant that they had no scheme, for dumping people on to Australia. They were here to help, not ,to impose upon. Australians, even if they had the power to do so. Such an idea was cuitruly a mistaken one, and it would he a disaster if such, an erroneous impression got abroad. The British delegates’ speeches were punctuated hv a good deal of interruption from the largo Labourite section present in the hall. submarine radio. UNDER. SYDNEY I-lARBOUR. SYDNEY. Sept. 9. Extending a distance of more than three-quarters of a mile under Sydney harbour, and nearly 3000 ft below the surface, is a colliery in active operaI [ jcu. Far above it. day and night, and within easy distance of the city, busy I and crowded ferries ply tneir course. Down there in the bowels of the cnrt’.i. a night or two ago a concert pnrtv gave out a broadcasting programme. Despite the illumination lefforded by the electric, safety lamps with which the party had been provided for the descent, a certain eeriness was not dispelled until the silence was broken by the lusty male voices and by j the music of one of the military bands ! 4VILL NOT HANG. .MURDERER REPRIEVED. SYDNEY, September 9. T'e State Cabinet considered the case of Waller Arthur Nelson, under sentence of death for murder in the Broken Hill district. The ease was a particularly bad one, the prisoner having murdered his mate ! for a sum of money in "his possession, ! and Then endeavoured, by piece-meal ! mutilation, to hide the major crime by I burning the remains, j The accused’s light- regard for j human life is further stressed by the ! fact that he had served a previous sen- ! truce of seven years for having shot f ;l . taxi driver at Newcastle, in conse- | qitenoe of an altercation about a fare. I On that occasion the jury took a | merciful view, and brought in a manj slaughter verdict. j Tn commuting the sentence on the j present occasion. Cabinet ordered that I prisoner lie kept in penal servitude for . I life, and placed on record the view ) j that Nelson should never be given !iis ! freedom under any circumstances.