AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1929, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING HIS BROTHER. (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, Sept. 4. The trial was concluded to-night of William Simon, aged 32, garage keeper, of Darlinghurst, on the charge of murcleiing his brother Joseph, on April 'tli. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. Simon was remanded lor sentence. PICKETING TO BE RE-INTRO-DUCED. LIGHTS RESTORED AT KURI KURI (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) NEWCASTLE, September 5. After months of comparative quiet picketing is to be reintroduced on the northern coalfields during the weekend. The lights at Kuri Kuri were restored during the week after the town had been in darkness for several months and the work at Belmont Colliery has been resumed, the management- and men reaching an amicable settlement. MELBOURNE’S NEW ARCHBISHOP MELBOURNE, September 5. Rev. Canon Frederick Waldegrave, Head of Liverpool, England, has been invited to accept the Archbishopric of Melbourne which has been vacant since the death of Archbishop Lees on January 10th. RACING REGULATIONS. ' PROPOSED BILL. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE, September 5. Under the proposed racing bill, Aspindale, Sandown and part of Fitzroy and Richmond courses are to be closed. There will be one hundred and nineteen city racing days per year. Horse and pony meetings are prohibited on Mondays other than holidays and the Monday of the Williamstown Cup.

MISSING PEOPLE.

REPORTED SAFE

SYDNEY, September 5

Two boys and Mrs Egan, who were reported missing on Tuesday, have been traced all safe under no suspicious circumstances. > The others missing have still not been reported. ;■'

AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENTS.

CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION’S BELIEF^!'

MELBOURNE", -September. 5,

The belief that Australia has too many Governments for its six millions of population, thereby increasing the burden of taxation, finds support says the “Melbourne Herald,” in the reports of the Constitutional Commission, which was appointed last year to inquire into the constitution of the Commonwealth in the light of the experience gained since the Federation.

Four sectional reports prepared or the matter suggest giving increased powers to the Commonwealth Government.

The Labour minority report recommends- the abolition of State Parliaments as at present constituted., and the creation of new States or provinces governed by local bodies deriving their oowers from the Commonwealth Parliament. :