AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1927, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cablo Association.]

PAPER’S PROGRESS. SYDNEY, May 28

The “Daily Telegraph” announces that owing to the success of the “ Daily Telegraph News Pictorial,” new premises and more up-to-date machinery are required. Hie present building at the corner of King and Castlereagh Streets lias been sold for 0303,000 sterling, possession to he given when the new building is ready for occupation.

N.S.W. POLITICS. SYDNEY, May 28,

Cable advice has been received that Me Kell refused the Ministry of Justice in Lang’s new cabinet. Baddelcy is somewhere in Germany and is notable to be reached. The refusal of Lang and his followers to participate in a Parliamentary Labour caucus meeting, means there are two distinct Labour parties in the assembly. Lang has eighteen supporters and the other body twenty-seven, with Baddelcy doubtful. Those present at the caucus carried a resolution recognising the authorit of the Federal Conference of the Australian Labour Party recently held at Canberra and accepting its decisions. A motion was carried expressing utter contempt of the action of certain persons elected as members of the Parliamentary Labour Party in accepting portfolios contrary to the Labour Party’s rules, providing for the election of .Ministers by the Parliamentary Labour Party.

At the first meeting of Lang’s nwv Cabinet a Child Welfare Commissioner was appointed at a salary ot £IB3O per annum. ’lbis salary was one of the main matters in the dispute between Lang and the late. Ministry.

VICTOR!!AN FIRES. MELBOURNE, May 29. A lire destroyed three upper floors in Branch (lower’s furniture factory in Little Lonsdale and Elizabeth Streets, in the city, causing twenty thousand sterling worth of damage before It- was extinguished. A lire at Rainbow gutted six shops, the damage licing fifteen thousand.

N.S.W. DISPUTES. SYDNEY, AI ay 29

As a result of the mediation of tho Industrial Commissioner, Mr Pidditig(oll, the Lithgow strike has been settled. The men return to work on .Monday.

A compulsory conference of the parties to the coal trimmers’ strike at Newcastle was held, and considered proposals for settlement of the dispute. The terms proposed are now published. but it is anticipated the strike will end on Monday.

PREMIER CRITICISED. SYDNEY. .May 29

Mr -MeTicrnan (ex-Cabinet Minister) has issued a statement, on bclialf of the Australian Labour Party, in which lie says Air Lang lias betrayed the trust reposed in him by the Labour Parly by a deed of treachery that- is unparalleled in the Party’s history.

A new Cabinet, said Air AfcTiernan, had been formed, outside the Australian Labour Party, by Afr Lang and Air Willis personally. It was not a Labour Government, but a Lang-Willis bodv.