AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

JAPANESE STEADIER LINE.

(Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) SYDNEY, September 5. The Osaka Shosen Kaisha line has commissioned three new motor ships.— Sydney Ma.ru, Melbourne Maru, and Brisbane Maru, for the Australian service commencing with the lost named vessel, which is now loading in Japan. These vessels of the line Will call nt Wellington and Auckland, after discharging at Melbourne, Having loaded in the Dominion, the vessels will return to Melbourne and begin loading Australian cargo.

VICTORIAN- PROPOSALS. (Received this dav at 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 5

Premier Lyons is submitting t O . his colleagues a>s an inevitable step in economies of Government expenditure, a reduction of 'public service salaries, probably by 10 or ]2} p< r cent. A RIMED ROBBERY. ADELAIDE, Sept. 5. Two masked armed robbers ordered Alberton Post Office, and overpowered and bound an employee. They blew open a safe and secured £SO. WOMEN UNEMPLOYED. (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 5. The Minister for Labour (Mr Farrar) states there are five thousand unemployed women in the State, of whom twelve hundred are receiving food relief.' A scheme is to be launched whereby it is hoped' to absorb hundreds of girls as domestics. INVESTMENT STOCKS LOW. SYDNEY, Sept. 5. Investment stocks on the Sydney Exchange reached the lowest levels recorded since the depression began. General prices are down almost to the levels ruling during the after war depression of 1921. i COLLIERY TO BE CLOSED. SYDNEY, Sept. 5. The Aberdare Colliery, which has been operating for twenty years, is to be closed. About eight hundred men will be thrown idle. SURPLUS WINE STOCKS. MELBOURNE, Sept. 5. The Federal [Ministry is hopeful that the whole of this year’s surplus wine stocks will be disposed of in Canada and Great Britain. DEATH SENTENCE. N.S.W. MURDER, SYDNEY, Sept, 4. Charles Laurence, aged 3G, was convicted of murdering Arthur Worncs, at Berry, on May 27th. He was sentenced to death. Evidence was given that Laurence gave Worries a drink of rum in which there was arsenic, and that Laurence had visited Worncs’ house when only the latter’s wife was at hojge,,