AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1927, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian A: X.Z. Cable Association.] HOY STONE-THROWERS. SYDNEY, May 12. The police have solved the stonethrowing incident at lien Alla (cabled on the Bth). Adjoining the railway line is a park in which a number of hoys play regularly. They have a line drawn parallel with the railway and whenever a train passes they line up and have a competition to see who can throw a stone over it. Only two hoys attempted to throw any stones over the Royal train. One of the stones, falling short, shattered a carriage window. CANBERRA TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE. April 20. A report has been made by the Air Board to the Minister for Defence (Senator Sir William Glasgow) concerning the recent air tragedy, lb is believed that the accident has been declared to have been due to ail error of judgment on the part of one of the pilots. The relatives of the four victims— Eiight-Lieut. R. J. Dines, Fiight-Licut V. M. Thornton, Flight-Sgt. IT. G. Hay and Corporal J. Rnmsden—will receive compensation from the Defence Department The sums are believed To bo from £SOO to £lO(K>. Payments are also to ]*.- made from the superannuation fund.

The widow of an officer is paid from the superannuation fund, tho sum of £2 Ids weekly, with os a week for each child under 10 years of age. The weekly amount paid to the widow of a member who was not an officer is, according to the amount of contribution to the superannuation • unil, hut the child allowance is the same as in the case of an officer.

RTG JEWEL ROBBERY. SYDNEY. May 12. I Detectives arrested a man in the city and charged him with being connected with a. robbery of jewellery valued at t£2058 from Damievirke in February last. About £IOOO worth of jewellery was found on the prisoner, KROTATION AUTHORISED. (Received this day at S a.m.) SYDNEY, May RS. The Executive of the Council authorised the flotation of the redemption loan ol £11.000.001) at 5.1 per cent at ninety-nine, negotiations for which recently wore completed by MtTvell in London. MELBOURNE, Mav IT \\ heat is quiet, buyers cautious: os Old io os 7d ; Hour £l2 Ids, £1.3; oats, milling Is 3d, teed 3s lid. Is; barley, English U 3d, Is Id ; potatoes £1 Ills, CD; onions £3 ss, £3 10s. N.S.W. LOAN. SYDNEY. May 13.

The redemption loan is live and a quarter per cent, not live and a-hall. Mr Lang states the sinking fund of one-half per cent will he provided in connection with recent loan money to meet a sinking fund to bo provided iroin State revenue annually. One member of the Cabinet states it might be found necessary to increase taxation to cover this amount. CANBERRA. May 13. The Federal Labour Conference decided by 22 to ,8 to recognise the six delegates appointed by Conroy Executive as representatives of New South Wit les at the conference.

MON MY IX fi.\ BUTTS. SYDNEY, Miiy -j. There .seems to 'lie more money in rabbit trapping nowadays than in some of the overcrowded professions, to on in admission to which involves not only a bi«r outlay, hut also much liaril study. Take, for example, the case of a ten-year-told boy who has been earning a little pocket money in the Mud geo district of New South 'Wales. His rabbit trapping for two weeks brought him L‘2(l. How many skilled artisans or men imprisoned in offices nil day get that much in their pay envelopes in a fortnight:-’ Rahil iters through the Mudgee district are earning big money by trapping, what, on the table in Sydney, is popularly known as “underground mutton.” Two youthful trappers, striking a particularly good patch, secured rabbit skins worth £4OO in live weeks. In other districts trappers are making big money. The fact that, in the suburbs of Sydney, housewives have to pay from lid to Is for a rabbit, is surprising, in view of the fact that the country is swarming with the pest. The maledictions which are poured upon the rabbits by the men on the land are seemingly counter-balanced, from a strictly humanitarian point of view, by the benedieitions which are being bestowed upon them by the trappers.