AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian A X.Z. Cable Association..] N.S.W. POLITICS. SYDNEY. April 23. Cablegrams received from .Messrs 11 ad do ley and McKell state those Ministers who are abroad indicate in the opinion of our .Ministry that they are in favour of observing the GilliesGoodin pact. In a hitter attack oil the Cabinet Ministers, delivered at the Seale C'onlerence. Mr Willis described his opponents as miserable intriguers, who "'i»'!d assassinate a colleague behind his hack. The conference carried a resolution re-affirming confidence in Mr Lang, and slating it will recognise him only as leader of the Parliamentary Party. S.S. MUXGAXA TOWED. SYDNEY, April 21. The freight steamer Mungana was Lowed safely into Sydney. She was in a battered condition. showing the fierceness of the recent gale. During the height ol the gale Captain Saunders perilously unit over the side til the ship on a rope ladder, dangling among the breaking waves, in order to inspoit the damage lo the rudder. BOTANY BAY DISASTER. SYDNEY, April 25. The bodies of tic two remaining victims of the Bofanv Bay launch disaster have been recovered. TRIPLE TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, April 26. George Walker, 27. and Thelma llaiinnil. 18, were shot dead outside idle latter's home at Ashlicld after their return from the pictures. Idle fatal shots were lired hy William Go!'- 1 don Fuller. 21. of Croydon, who afterwards fatally wounded himself. Walker was a took and hail a ticket for tiie steamer .Mocraki in his pocket. In Fuller's possession was a New Zealand passport, also a photograph of himself in a marine officer's uniform. The girl's parents slated he and Fuller reiently qiinnvllVd. Jealousy is believed to have been the motive ol the

AN ANZAC MESSAGE. .MELBOURNE, April 26, The Duke of York in an Anzae message to the people says:— It is a great privilege to he able to participate in celebrating the landing of tin' Australian and New Zealand Army Corps which made forever iamoiis the name of Anzae. lie begged the people to regard the day not so much as one ol mourning for the dead, hut one for an earnest resolve on tli" part of the living to emulate id:.' example and live mole worthily ol those who made the great sarrilice lor is. to ito their utmost to hand down traditions of loyalty, fortitude and devotion to duty, which animated those gallant men, and on the preservation of which tlio whole welfare and seruriu of the Km [lire depends.

To-dav was chosen to unveil , the Saint. Kilila monument to Lieut. J. M. Bennett, who accompanied Sir Russ and Keith Smith in the liight, to Australia and subsequently killed with Sir Ross in an aeroplane smash in England. The day was solemnly observed in other States ol the Commonwealth and

special services and military demon stratious in honour ol the Gloriole Dead.