AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] BOTANY BAY DISASTER. SYDNEY. April 22. I he police are coin inning the search hut no further bodies have been found in connection with the Botany Bay disaster. KI.OOD NEWS. SYDNEY. April 22. All tin' collieries in Cessnock district arc closed, rendering idle eight thousand miners, owing to the suspension of the South Maitland railway, as a result of floods. It is unlikely that, cither coal or passenger trains will be able to he resumed till next week. SYDNEY, April 22. No finality has heen reached by the visit ot Mr MeTiernan to AH Lang and the matter will he discussed at the caucus meeting to-morrow. DAYLIGHT MLRDKIL BRISBANE, April 22. While Afrs AleVibish, 38, was walking in Elizabeth Street in the heart of the city at midday she was accosted by a man who drew a revolver and fired two shots point blank at her fatally wounding her. Alter a chase the murderer was arrested. LANG ASKED TO RESIGN. SYDNEY. April 21. At a further meeting of the Cabinet .Ministers who are in revolt, against the Premier. lion Mr Lang, it was decided that Mr Lang himself must resign from the Prime Ministership. Such action would carry with it the resignation of the Government, but the .Ministers who are conducting the campaign assert that another Lalsnir .Ministry would he formed immediately. [foil. Mr AleTieriiuu was to-day deputed to wait on Mr Dang and to hand him the Cabinet .Ministers’ resolution. Air AleTiqrmm was still closeted with Air Lang at a late hour. The object of Air AlrTionuin's visit is to ask Air Lang to retire without sulfei - - ing the humiliation of a defeat in the Caucus.

AH Lang is stated to he anxious for an immediate dissolution, and candidates on behalf of the Lang-tseale following are already selected to contest all the electorates in readiness for an election. It is known that Mr Lang intends to usk the Governor for a dissolution in the event of his defeat in the Labour Parly’s caucus meeting to-morrow. M PNG AN A IN TO AY. SYDNEY. April 21. The tug St. Olaves reached the freighter Aluugnnn and got a tow line aboard without difficulty. She is now heading for Sydney with the crippled vessel in I of. STATE CAIHXKT CRISIS. SYDNEY. April 22. State Alinister deny that any ultimatum has heen issued hv Mr Lang, calling upon hint personally to resign. They declare the present stage is not between Cabinet A 1 blisters and the Premier but between the Ministry and Air AVill is.

The Parliamentary Labour Caucus has boon summoned for Monday. A. Cabinet meeting again insisted that Mr filing should publicly repudiate Air AYillis and d-mumd hi' immediate resignation. Air Lang said he did not desire to accentuate the trouble hut was anxious to obtain n solution of it.

SYDNEY WEATHER. SA'DXEY', April 22. The weather is again cold and gloomy, a light rain falling.

Ai UR DEREK’S IDENTITY. BRISBANE. April 22

The man who shot Mrs McA enish is a labourer named Edward Stanley Moran. A daughter of the dead woman states the mother recently removed from a new lann to the city in order to escape his attentions. No other details are available.