AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1930, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

PICTURE EXHIBITION. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, .Sept. 24. An. ■ exhibition of- the late George Rambert’s pictures, which represents diverse periods of this popular artist’s development, is attracting considerable interest in Sydney. Purchases from the exhibition on behalf of the National Galleries and War Museum and Lambert memorial fund, amp noted to £2,900 sterling, while •private (purchases were over £2200 which combined, ite believed to make a record for a one man exhibition in (Australia. SUICIDE SENSATION. SYDNEY, Sept. 24. There was a dramatic suicide outside the Detective Headquarters today. William Alt, aged 45, the manager of the Wattle Weaving Mills, at Camperdown, wate brought to the Detective Office in a police car. He had just alighted when he whipped out a revolver and shot himself in the temple and fell into the arms of the escorting detective. He died immediately. MINERS NOT WORKING; (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 25'. Seven hundred miners at the Railway State mine at Litligow decided not to work. The dispute concerns the payment of mining of hard or faulty coal. • RAILWAY RETRENCHMENT.' SYDNEY, September 25. The secretary of the Australian Railways Union stated that another five Hundred railway employees will be retrenched to-morrow. COST OF LIVING. * • SYDNEY, September 25. The Commonwealth Statistician statement on the cost of living in the Commonwealth for August shows a decrease of 1.1 per cent, was; recorded, compared with the previous month In towns, and a decrease-of 1.9 per, cent in capitals. MELBOURNE, September 25.

During his- budget speech; the; Premier made a pungent reply to the contentions of Mr Lang, that New South Wales would be better off it separated from the Loan Council. Mr Hogan said the abolition of the Council would only resdlt in increasing interest rates and would thereby prove beneficial to investors and correspondingly injurious to the people of Australia. From this aspect alone the Loan Council completely justified- its existence.