AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Australian Press Association.)

NEGOTIATIONS PENDING. MELBOURNE, Mav 18

At a late hour the Maritime Conference carried a resolution that the Australian Council of Trade Unions in conjunction with the committee of the Maritime Unions, open negotiations with the shipowners for the settlement of the cooks’ dispute.

MYSTERIOUS MURDER. (Received this day at J 1.0 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 18. Mrs Sarah Delaney, aged sixtythree. was found dead at her home in a Garnville Suburb on Wednesday with an element of mystery surrounding her death. The police have now arrested her husband, John Delaney, aged sixty-three, a ‘hag merchant, on a charge of murder. A medical examination disclosed tho woman was murdered in a revolting manner, recalling the Long Bay horrors of a few years ago. hut the police have not yet found the instrument which indicted terrible internal

The deceased left several thousand sterling. Tho police who discovered a quantity of burned papers under the copper assert that Delaney and wife lived unhappily.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. SYDNEY, Mav 18

An acute shortage of Ministers was the complaint by Rev. D. J. Elockluirt. in presenting tho report of the Home Mission Committee of the Presbyterian General Assembly. Me added : Pit is sad to think that tho Presbyterian Church has lost its grip on the State. It is a question of men. not money. If conditions continue the Church will have to go out of business.”

The report stated that twenty-eight charges were without Ministers, and fully forty additional Ministers were required.

FEDERAL POLITICS. Canberra, May is.

Mr Bruce in tho House of Representatives, replying to criticism cf the amending Arbitration Bill, reviewed tile industrial position in Australia. He said tilings < mild not be allowed to go on oaxetly a-, they were going. Trade unions bad become political in their aspirations and some leaders, who bad found themselves possessed of great power, were using it in a manner not intended in the original Trade Union objective. The Bill would enable Trade Unionism to occupy tho position it deserved. Mr W. M. Hughes secured the adjournment 1 .

Replying to a quest inn Mr Bruce said the Government was well posted in regard to the proposal to hold a pan-Paeilio Trade Union Congress in Australia. There was not the slightest chance of it being allowed to assemble in Australia.

‘•DAWN’’ BANNED IN AUSTRALIA ' Received this dav at 10.15 a.m.) CANBERRA. May IS.

The Commonwealth Government adopted the recommendation of film censors and the special suli-eomniittce which witnessed the private ,screening of “Dawn” to prohibit its production in Australia.

LABOUR CABINET ATTACKED. BRISBANE, May IS,

A motion of no-confidence in the McCormack Labour Government lor the manner in which it scotched the railway strike during the South Johnstone sugar mill trouble, was defeated at the Stale Labour Convention at Townsville by 50 to 82. Premier McCormack detending the Government's attitude during that disturbance said it was clear there were men in (lie Labour movement

desirioiis o! destroying the Government fur one alleged mistake. lie aas prepared to stand or lull hy the Government’s action on that, occasion, hut if Labourites wanted to go the way of the New South Wales Luboui Tarty, into the wilderness for ten or fifteen years, well and good. They were at the parting of the ways and they should take stock of the situation and put their house in order.

W EST RiA LI.A X FIG URES. TERTTT. Afay 18. latest figures of the Legislative Council election shows J. AY 1 . Hickey (honorary Labour Minister) was defeated. A TROTERTY DEAL. NORTH, May 18. The huge property. Boolathann Station. of 300.000 acres, carrying forty thousand sheep, near Carnuinou, has changed hands for one hundred and thirty thousand sterling.

DEATH FROAI THIRST. DA RAVIN. Afay 18. Two tramps. William Watsford, of Sydney, and Harry Forney, apparently died of thirst on a lonely trek to Darn-ill some necks ago. Tlio bodies, seven miles apart in northern territory were both within a short distance of water. Watsford was stripped of clothing and had eaten grass, apparently being delirious before his death.