AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

] (.Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] X.S.W. POLITICS. SYDNEY, April 20. e As a result of the Cabinet meeting, r Air Willis will probably be asked to e band in his portfolio as a member ot the Cabinet in the course of the next > few days Air Lang subsequently r.d- - dressed file .Australian Labour Part,' r conference convened by .Scale, lie onteriy attacked Communism, and on .‘i!s - suggestion tlie conference carried a f resolution stating that no member n‘ • the Communist Party lie allowed tr lie a member of the Australian Labour Party. SYDNEY. April 20. I be X.S.W. Cabinet met to-day and adjourned without reaching finality concerning the crisis which lias arisen oer Air Lang’s actions at the Labour C (Inference. The meeting adjourned owing to the absence of Hon Air AYillis (Leader ol the Upper House), who could not lie found. I’ urt her cflorts arc being made to locate Alt Willis, in order to secure bis attendance at a la ter Cabinet meeting. when the .Ministers hope that finality will be reached. NEWSPAPER DEAL. SYDNEY. April 20. T lie " Sunday Times” group of . newspapers, including the sporting • papers ‘‘Referee” and “Arrow”, have ' been bought by Rockett's Newspapers < Limited. It is understood the price is , Li-*,.-).000. t | IiLITER PRICE. , BRISBANE. April 20. | Queensland Butter Hoard announced , an increase in the price of butter b.v | twopence per pound, making the whole- | sale prLc ISOs sd per cwt. | MUSICIAN DEAD. ’’ SYDNEY. April 20. • Obituary.—lolin Black, the inusii ian, formerly of New Zealand, aged 74. N.S.AY. CABINET. SYDNEY, April 21. Cal >inet with Air Willis present, con- jsiderod the crisis that has arisen In (| connection with the Labor Conference and postponed further consideration until a caucus meeting on TTiursdai next. but. made it clear that Air AYiliis must resign from the Ministry. STEAMER ADRIFT.

The tug St. <Raves which was forced to seek shelter in Sydney while eit route to the assistance of the Riverina has now boon despatched to assist the AI iiiiana which is on the way from Ocean island to .Melbourne with a cargo of phosphates. The Afminim is drifting in a south-easterly dierction and west, eighty or ninety miles from Sydney. The St. Olavex is expected to pick her up at daylight. .SYDNEY. April 21. The attack against Air AYiliis was led by two Ministers who were hitherto regarded ns strong supporters of Air Lang. Throughout the proceedings they maintained silence and assumed a neutral attitude. Air Lang was charged by bis colleagues with a breach of the agreement arrived at 'Tuesday's Cabinet meeting, in not acquainting the Scale conference with the actual decisions of the .Ministry regarding the rejection ol red rules, the rescission of motion expelling Gillies and Goodin and rescission of motion granting the I’reinier dietatoral powers over the Labour caucus. In a statement biter Air Lang said: The new rules are simply a new scheme of organisation. 'There is not the faintest tint of redness about them.” “The new rules are simply a new scheme of organisation. 'There is not the faintest tint of redness about them.” Air Willis in an address to the Labour conference said the branches should call upon Parliamentarians win lmd failed to attend the conference t i give an explanation of their conduct. RUN AAl.dk. SYDNEY. April 21. Scarcely had the missionary steamer John Williams passed through the worst of the violent gale off Broken Bay when one of her native boys ran amok, and after almost cutting ulf tiie bead of one of ids companions with a razor, savagely attacked another, on whom lie inflicted sen ’ins injuries. He is now in a critical condition. The ship’s officers attracted by the commotion in the boys quarters rushed below, where the assailant submitted quietly, offering no resistance when put in irons. On arrival in port the wounded man was sent to the hospital and the attacker was arrested.

THE LOST LAUNCH: SYDNEY. April 21

The police have established that the launch Bronya, foundered on Monday evening during tiie fiercest storm tout swept Botany Bay for the fuist fifty years. The police are of the opinion that the launch carried twelve or thirteen passengers when she left Kurnell. The Bronya left Kurncll with two other launches for Cook’s River but because she was the heavier vessel she was outdistanced by them. The theory is that she was driven ashore on the breakwater f >—<•>" the mouth of Cook's River, and her occupants were thrown into tile water upon tile rocks of which the breakwater is composed. where they were practically liattered into.unconsciousness, judging by the appearance of some ot the bodies. The further names of the bodies are: Janies Charles Manikin, of Cattai Creek; Frank Cook, of Tam worth ; Herbert Francis l.opel, of Rezelle and his wife Daisy May Lopel. Others known to he missing are George Ansell. of Kensington, Gordon Melville. ol Ramsgate. A man named Edwards, ot Artatman is also believed to have been one of the party. A much wider area of the coast was swept by the storm than at first was thought. Considerable areas oi country in Shonlhaven. Wallambu and Miuning River districts are reported to be in a flooded state. A number of cattle c.re reported drowned.