AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. WELCOME BAIN. SYDNEY, Sept. 20. Further welcome rains have fallen over New South Wales. The registrations range frohrf 55 to 328 points. Queensland has also benelitted. STEAMER. SOLD. SYDNEY, Sept. 20. The sale of, the Union Company’s steamer, Kokiri, cabled on Tuesday, has been completed. The crew were paid off nnd the vessel will he towed to Manila. PROPOSED FLY. BRISBANE, Sept. 29. Final arrangements have been made for Frewen’s trans-Tasman .flight. He leaves Brisbane on Friday and flies to Sydney nnd ships the aeroplane to Auckland, whence he commences his flight to Brisbane via Norfolk Island, ns soon as possible. SUDDEN DEATH. Canberra, sept. 20. In the House of Representatives, while members were expressing 1 egret at the death of Mr W. A. Gale, late clerk of the House, Mr J. R- McGregor (his successor) collapsed and died a few hours later. He was aged 53 years.

federal finance. MELBOURNE, Sept. 29. The Federal Treasurer. Mr Pngc, stated the amount paid in old aged and invalid pensions for the past year was £9,145,000 to 180,000 pensioners. The estimate for the last current year was £9,400,000. The postal revenue was £12,391,000, an increase of £742,362. It is proposed to instal automatic telephones in country centres. Regarding New Guinea lie announced with the exception of a few small lots the whole of the German expropriated properties had been sold for £3,345,000. An official valuation of the properties was £2,122,000.