AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Autstraliaii J’ress Association.)

PAPUA MASSACRES. DNEY. April 2d. Two hoatlmilder-. Ales.-r- ,J. and L Day. hate returned from the Delia di.'i ion of Papua, where they have heeii for the past, six months, building a boat for the l.onnon Mission Society. They say that wholesale tnassaeris. h aii-imnting and eanuibalisin are rife in the Delia Division, and that lights letweeu the hem!-hnnter.s' villages are lomnmn. They declare that since ( hi i-turns more titan live hundred naliics inive been murdered, .hi-t helore they (the Days) left. a big light oceiii red, the unlives from nine villages in the Delta Division attacking the natives o! Morigio Island, eiiuing down the clocks in forty canoe-. The Europeans there did not hear of the attack until it was over, lor thirty-nine natives were killed aiid many were wounded They said lust the s, rions n-nect of the mas. -■■■ '' was that the Native Police v.vre generally the ringleaders, often leading ilm lighting parlies in their police Uniterm-.

Alter lb" Mor"'t i light, ft 7. ecu of th" Pmh " wu-re ar ■ I in uhlil ion to about eighty open ia;e, . The No live Poll", the Days staled, would iva :; ate »i Hu 1 e, ernii'eii i officials in their di-l riei .'. t IV to', far away to in 11 "■ 11 ‘ft• I lit y I h e a mid emiiai a oeannihal head-hunt ing ex pi nil inn-. The Days added tied 11. ov nr.- i'u e (internment official.- nn'.r.illing He Del'a Diii-iou. )'>!■ ,iie-e di-curl',an. are kept a sei rei (■■. ihe Covm un."nl. They said that tiny ..m iml, .| dial nobody was now safe in tlm Delia Di vision, and that, although mi •si.im.'n,were doing their host, they '"iild m.r cope with the sitnatio" AUSTRALIAN LABOUR. SYDNEY. April 2i I lie all Australian Council of Trad' Unions re,a(lirmod il- decision to hold a! ini' from tlm Eederal Coverium'iit's industrial eonferemc. the Conneii (I.'elded to convene a pan-Paeilie Concnee of Australia next year. Delegale- from China ami Japan will he invited. Advice was received from Moscow that .1. Carden had been elected to the executive of the third international which anal Communists and Carden regards as a great honour. Eil.M CENSOR’S REPORT. SYDNEY. April 27. The Commonwealth Film Censor's annual report commenting on the trending on vulgarity of some import - -"! tilm., declares there seem to he no goner,all.. - eifretive attempt to introduce mote retincue'nt or raise the literary nr moral standard. During the year ItiSl films arrived in Australia from United Slates. 271 Irani Britain ami !!!'.> from cthet countries. A SIIOO I'INU Ii! At; KIIV. SYDNEY. April 27. A tragedy i- reported from the railway enti-i met ion - amp near Wyalong. Following a 11::-1 rri• I. Norman v'eok. ag.'d tliiit.,v-!ive was riddled wiilt lulllets. He made a statement heloi'e his death ami the police arrested a workms l.e on a elmrgo < I minder. MINE EXPLOSION. BRISBANE. April 27. Another coliiei'v explosion has or-

eerrid. this time at Balmoral mine. Emerald district. Matthew Stewart, who was underground manager. 1 lories Abbott mid William Spillor were Seim itsiy injured. It is surmised an e|e. t rii wire fused causing gas in tie mwe to ignite. Nineteen others were uninjured. S\ EE FROM FLOOD. BRISBANE Api i 1 27. '.Well roi 1 e;l pill.:.'- W o Wf'fO believed .... 1 a\( been swept ;o death in lies duo. I - ...diU.d yesW-r.hiy are Sld'e. -J I I PP‘N(. Pi iS! ! ID (Rei "i led ihi- ..tt.y at ll.i-5 a.'.i.A M EI,BOURNE. April 21. ('ommunwcalih Steamship Owneis Assut nation in a statement declared the Ulimaroa was built to carry 12:5 passengers, since when alterations under the (‘ommouweallh Navigation Act had re-

iluced the passenger capacity to AHI. while the crew had hoeii increased I ruin |gll to I AO. To add two more men to the galley staff as was demanded by ill., t'uioii IV. mid mean two thousand •a,.cling nor annum extra in addition to overtime and accommodation. Ipwurds of ciidJlOll had been lost in earnings since the lluddart I’arkei* s Ih-el had been rendered idle. The statenient concludes: ' Shipowners are asking what redress they have got. t’ldcss they and the great body of employee- can find some enmmons.nse way of deterniining minor trouble-, it is absolutely certain that exiremists will ruin the shipping industry. ('oii-e(|iiently the present state of affairs rnmerns the welfare ol the ('i j 1 1 1 moll Weil lib people. IXH'ULK FATAUTY. M KLUOri! NF. April ”7. A d.auhle sealer ear speeding on F,)n’-erav Road -rashed into a slal iooary ferry. ( aplain Dunkeiihm. ma.-ier ol the Dutch steamer Alkmerk. and Captain Langley, of LhiglHon. were killed, and Donald Hill. aged pa entv-'.'veii. t he driver, hail his skull f r n l ured

TASMANIAN POLITICS. 11 Oil A RT. April 27

Premier Lyons on his deliieis ol the lludgel said Tasmania had a national debt id twenty-four millionwith an int-re-t hill ol a million annually. and less than 35.14)0 potonte:i ratepayers to foot the biil. He lii'UV.isisi to reillice members- oi the A—cmblv to iwenty-li'e and Council ti, fifteen.