AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

] [Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] COMMON WE Al7l’ H BAN K. SYDNEY, April 27. i E. Y. Riddle has been ‘appointed " Governor of the Commonwealth Bank, i in succession to Air McKoll, who has ■ retired. i SHOOTING VICTIM. SYDNEY. April 27. Ihe police have not definitely identified ANnlker in collection with the Ashfield shooting. He had substantial accounts with the Invercargill Post Office Savings Bank under the name ot George Walker and with the Commonwealth Bank, Sydeny, in the name of George William Smith. He came to Australia by the Moeraki which lelt Bluff for Melbourne on Utli April. •STEAMERS collide. BRISBANE, April 27. Hie.. Union Coy. steamer Ngujruta while proceeding up Brisbane river collided with the Chinese steamer Taiping. The stem of the Ngakuta struck the i’aiping between number three and lour holds. The damage to both is slight. BASIC WAGE. SYDNEY, April 28. Mr Lang announced that Government had decided on a new basic wage for the State, to operate early ill June. The family endowment of 10s weekly for each child of a wage earner, to he paid concurrently with the declaration of the 1 new wage. COM MON WEALTH LOAN. SYDNEY, April 27. ■Conversions in the Commonwealth loan amounted to £5,129,000. LABOUR PARTY DISPUTE (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 28. The faction dispute in the State Labour Parly-is at present at a standstill, each side wailing for the other to act. The next development will probably occur when the Federal Executive of the Australian Labour Party meets at Canberra next week. ~ The dispute will then be revised as to ' which body should represent Now South Wales at that Conference. Each State has a right to appoint six delegates. Seale Conference and a major- ‘ itv of the executive claim to he (ho j constitution body.

THE RIVERINA. SYDNEY. April 2.8. Salvage gear, including anchors, has been sent to the Riverina. The weather has moderated, and it is expected when the anchois are laid and other salvage work carried out,* the Riverinn will he able to haul herself into deep water. PA UI.IA M E XT’A R Y B UIL I) IN ( IS. MELBOURNE. April 28. The Parliamentary Buildings at Melbourne which for the past quarter of a century have housed the Federal Parliament. formally handed back to the State all records and hooks from the library. The most historic portraits have been sent to Canberra, where they will he placed in the new Parliamentary Buildings in readiness for the’official opening hv the Duke of York on the 9ih. May. MOTION REJECTED. LONDON. April 27. In the Commons a. Budget motion to reduce the tobacco duty hv 6d was rejected. Hon AY. Churchill obtained a eloseure on the main question, preventing further amendments.