AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Ter Press Association. N.S.W. DIVORCES. SYDNEY, Jan. 5. There were over seventeen hundred divorce petitions in New South Wales last year. Since the war the number of petitions increased each year, and the time of two Judges has been almost continuously occupied hearing petitions. At the busiest time three were ANCIENT FOSSIL FOUND. PERTH, Jan. .3. Said to-be live or six million years old, a fossil nautilus was found on a fu-rm at Murriktip. It is a- marine shell fish, representatives of which still exist ill the sea. It has been placed in the Perth Museum. CREW PAID OFF. MELBOURNE, Dec. 5. The crew of the lighthouse steamer Lady Lock have been paid off, as no men are offering to fill the vacancies aboard. MINTING OPERATIONS. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) CANBERRA, Jan. 5. Since 1910, when minting operations commenced, silver to the value of £16,750,000 sterling has been issued by the Australian Mint. Tbo profit made on minting coins was little more than three million sterling. Last year nearly 12,000,000 coins, valued at C 150,000 sterling, were issued. POSTAL REVENUE. CANBERRA, Jan. 5. Postal revenue for the half yeai ended 31st December was C 0,918,000, an increase df £265,000, compared with the previous corresponding period.