AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ARBITRATION BILL. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) CANBERRA, May 30. An amending Arbitration Bill giving tlie Commonwealth wide powers over industries and essential services, in the case of strikes and upheavals, and giving unionists greater control over their own officials, paused the second reading by thirty-five votes to twentytwo on party line.'.. 'l’hc Prime .Minister informed ' tlie House of Representatives that the number of Italians coining to Australia this year will be three thousand, mostly women relatives of Italians already in Australia. A MOTHER’S DEATH. PERTH, A fay 33. Mrs Mills, wife of a. country settler was accompanying her son in a motor car to tlie hospital when she died. Her son. believing she was asleep did not attempt to rouse her till at the journey's end. RE-UNITED AFTER 17 YEARS. MELBOURNE, May 30. There was a most affecting scene at Spencer Street railway station when a father and son (New Zealanders) wore re-united after seventeen years, tho father having lost all trace of his sen for nine years, after the son’s enlistment for the war. The father is Andrew West, a farmer, of Morrinsville, New Zealand and the son, Percy, will probably return with his father to New Zealand.