AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Australian Press Assn.—United Service NOTABLE POLITICIAN' DEAD. (Received this day at 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 7. Obituary.—William Lambert ' (Federal Parliamentarian for West Sydney) who was -recently a central figure and originator of the bribery charges involving politicians. Lambert / died suddenly at a private hospital.

ORCHA RDIST’ S DECISION. SYDNEY, Sept. 7. A prominent orehnrdist in Lithgow district has. decided to cut down seven thousand young apple trees just hearing. owing to the high cost of labour and the low market returns. He declares fruit growing is playing a losing game. He will devote the land to a more profitable puruosc. AIAJORITY AGAINST PROHIBITION SYDNEY, Sept. 7. The latest majority against prohibition is 527,959. METAL EXPLOSION. SYDNEY, Sept. 7. Later details of tlie Port Kembla explosion show that hundreds of tons of bubbling molten lhetal shot from a gigantic furnace and flowed over’ the adjoining railway line forming into

sheets of iron which were cut away afterwards by oxy-aeetylene machines .. and then shifted by. a crane. It is considered ■ miraculous that the workmen escaped so luckily. A NEW AWARD. SYDNEY, Sept. 7.

The waterside workers new award which was roundly condemned by unions, operates next Monday. Wharf workers declare they will not work under it. CAUSE OF.ARREST. SYDNEY, Sept 7. Storey’s arrest aboard the S.vdic refers to a murder near Cairns, referred to on August seventh. IMPRESSIVE SERVICE. SYDNEY, Sept. 7. Battalion after Battalion of young men of Roman Catholic societies marched into the Royal Show ground to participate in the most colossal religious demonstration ever held in Australia. A Solemn Benediction under the open sky was given by Cardinal Ceretti to one hundred and thirty thousand men. Onlookers at this simple pageant of faith will never foiget the sight of over one hundred thousand human arms holding lighted tapers, as the deep toned responses of worshippers preceded the triumphant thunder of the Adoromu's the huge congregation sang the hymn “0 Sacrament Divine.” and then before the Benediction, the rolling Latin of ‘0 Salutnria,” and “The Tan turn Ergo. The service ended with the. grandest of Catholic hymns “The Faith of Our Fathers, and 0 Queen of Heaven. The vast sen of faces looked towards the Papal Throne at the far end of the ground and the official stand crowded with hiter-Stutc visitors. Cardinal Ceretti yesterday laid a heart shaped wreath on the Conotap i ir, the presence of the Returned Soldiers’ League officials. An excited

crowd gathered when they observed the Cardinal's arrival. Archbishop Chine, of Perth, also placed a huge floral cross on the Cenotaph on behalf of Chaplains who served in the war.