AUSTRALIAN NEWS
MANSLAUGHTER SENTENCE. (Australian Press Association)
SYDNEY, April 4
"William Ralph was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for the manslaughter of Arthur Lange, cabled December Bth. 1
(Received this day at 8 a.m.) BRISBANE, April 4
A message from Townsville states a mail bag containing thirty thousand sterling in Treasury bonds, was lost between Brisbane and Townsville. The police are investigating. .
COMMERCIAL
MELBOUNNE, April 4
Wheat is 4s 2d; flour £lO los to £11; bran and pollard £7 10s; oats 3s Id to 3s 3d: barley (English) 3s od to 3s 7d; maize 6s 2d.
REFERENDUM PROPOSALS
CANBERRA, April 5
In addition to the present referendum proposals now before the House of Representatives, which seek to give the Government power to alter the constitution at will', and also additional industrial powers, the Prime Minister has launched a third proposal giving the Commonwealth complete powers over trade and commerce.
GOLD INVESTMENT
-SYDNEY, April 5
The Sydney Commonwealth Bank has arranging for the further exporting of eight millions sterling in gold overseas. This makes a total of twentyfour millions exported from, Australia since July 1929. The general object was to relieve the exchange cut. The most is being used for interest obligations.
THE TARIFF PROPOSALS
MANUFACTURERS’ CLAIMS
(Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) (SYDNEY, April 5.
With the announcement of the Tariff proposals local manuiacturers diaim Australia, is oil the threshold of an era of prosperity similar to the boom that followed when like action was adopted in the United States about sixty years ago.
Opponents of the tariff point out many anomalies and predict greater unemployment and trade depression.
A FORCED LANDING
CANBERRA, April 5
A plane, carrying the .Governor-Gen-eral. Lord Stonehaven, returning from Adelaide, made a forced landing as a result of engine trouble in a paddock near Grouug Grong. The landing was excellent without mishap to the passengers or machine. Lord Stonehaven continued his journey by car.
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