AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cablo Association.] MORE QUAKES. SYDNEY, May IS. Further earthquakes have occurred at Seven Creeks. a.nd also at Castle Crock in the Kelvin district. They were accompanied hy loud oxplosions. The houses were severely .shaken. ROY A I, TOUR. I’EltTil. May 18. The Duke and Duchess of York arrived here to-day and were enthusiastically welcomed, while making a triumphal progress of 12 miles from Fremantle to Perth, enormous eh<erin;.r crowds lining the route.

VICTORIAN' PORTFOLIOS. -MKr.lsorii.XK. .Mav 18. The wrtfolios in (lie new Victorian Labour (iovcrnnifiit have lieen allotted as follows:lion Mr Hogan. Prime Minister and State Treasurer, and .Minister of Markets. Jfon Mr Til lined ilfe. Minister of Railways, Ministers in Charge of Klee- | trieitv. and a. Vice-President of the .Hoard of Lands Work. Hon MV Lemmon, Minister of F.dtieation. Lands and T.ahnnr. Hon Mr Bailey, Minister of Lands, and Water Supply, and President of the Hoard of f.and.s and ’Works. lion Mr Prcndorgasf, C hief Secretary. Hon Mr 'Slater, Attorney-General and Solicitor-General and Minister of Agrieult lire. Hon Mr .Jones. Minister of public Works. Mines and Immigration. and a Viee-Prcsidont of the Hoard of Lands and Works. Hon Mr Beckett. Minister of Forests and Public Health, and a VicePresident of Hoard of Lands and Works. Hons Disney, Williams. Cain and Webber are Honorary Ministers. LA 808 SPLIT. (Received this day at 10.2 a a.m.', KYDXF.Y. May If). Another split has occurred in the State l.ahonr Cabinet. The Federal Conference of the Australian l.ahonr Party at Canherra endorsed the Labour candidature of Captain Conway for Wnrringah seat in the Federal Parliament, rendered vacant by Mr Ry ries’ resignation, consequent on his appointment to High Commissionership. The Scale faction supports Afr Ogorman and has instructed its members t> take the platform in his support. Messrs Lang and Willis decided Lo .support Mr Ogormnu, other members of the Cabinet supporting Captain Conway. The split in the Cabinet led to a .scene before the Governor when at a meeting of the Executive Council. Mr Lang attempted to place his private secretary in a position at the head of the Child Welfare and Women’s Pensions Department at a salary of L’lToO. Other members of Cabinet objected to the appointment and the Governor referred the matter hack to Cabinet. PRINTERS’ STRIKE. PERTH, Mav IP. A compulsory conference between the parties to the dispute in the Printing Trades was held before the President of the State Arbitration Court, who. after hearing both sides, directed that the matters in dispute should he brought before the Court, and ordered the men to resume work immediately. The men. however, did not resume last night.