AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WOOL SALES. (Received this day at 11.15 a.in.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 18. At the wool sales late rates were fully maintained. Comebacks of all grades were in good supply, meeting with strong competition. Crossbreds were also in good demand. Top prices were 33 pence. WESTRALLAN AFFAIRS. PERTH, Jan. 18. Premier Collier stated Ids Government viewed with growing seriousness the position witch has been created by the position which lias been created hv Europeans. Despite official assurances there did not seem to he any slackening in the rate at which these foreigners wore entering Australia, and West Australia seemed to lie receiving more than a fair share. From June 1925 to the end of June last, 4335 foreigners arrived in West Australia. These figures did not indicate that the provision that all migrants arriving alter the first of July 1925 must he in possession of £4O landing money or a guarantee of employment, had had any material effect in preventing the influx. There were, Mr Collier said, probably more unemployed in the State at this time of the year than ever before. Reports from all parts of the State showed the foreigners were being given preference becaus’o in many cases they were prepared to work for food only.

'llie State Government had made repeated protests to the Federal Government. hut as this was entirely a Federal matter, it was not possible for the State Government to regulate the influx of foreigners.

GHASTLY CRIME IN ASYLUM SYDNEY. Jan. 17. A ghastly crime was committed at the Rydalinerc .Mental Hospital in the early hours this morning, when an imbecile. Cecil Crouch, was strangled with cord while in hod. Later in the day. a blind inmate- of the institution. Horace Suckling, was found suffering from severe cuts on his arms. He confessed that he had strangled Crouch and then tried to commit suicide by cutting his arms on a window pane which he had broken for that purpose.