AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

FEDERAL* CABINET. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Oct. 17. It is ascertained that finance, was; the chief topic again discussed. Every avenue of possible economy and raising of additional revenue without further increasing urieiiyifkiymerit, wais explored. The Ministry are not anxious to alienate the sympathy and support of thousands of public) ser- • vants by salary, reductions. It is 'belie vis d they' ‘rather favour increased taxation ,r<nd 'possibly higher telegraph and telephone charges. !■ MINERS REQUEST. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 17.* Miners organisations requested the ' Government to appiy one hundred thousand starting already set aside' for repatriation of workless coal miners, toward the treatment of coal byproducts wherefore .; there' is ; i a . good market in the East.' . Mr Fenton>agreed to place the request ,;bef ore .Cabinet. •; . \■; ' : - . A BRUTAL ASSAULT. SYDNEY, October 17-; Footpads ,'bihitally assaulted :an elueriy nmn, named Charles’ Ewen ,at Mascot in broad daylight, and stole from him a large sum of money, .representing the takings of his son’s butcher shop, which he was carrying to the bank. y

A burglar last night entered the bedroom of the New Zealand trainer Mr H. Bi. Lorigah, and disturbed Mrs Lorigan, who screamed. The thief escaped without obtaining any money. A JUSTIFABLE HOMICIDE. SYDNEY, October 17. The Coroner, after hearing evidence in connection with the shooting of Saidler on September' 13, by Ernest Good, in the latter’s wine bar in Sydney, gave a verdict of ■ justifiable homicide. Ernest Good, who had bepn held in a charge of manslaughter, was promptly discharged." ' j WOMAN MURDERED. , MELBOURNE' October 17-J The police are hopeful of arresting the murderer of Mrs Little. Yesterday a domestic servant states a young man behaving like a lunatic drove a buggy away from the farm in great haste, after which the domestic found' Mrs Little’s body near the cowshed. A sum of £ls was taken by the murdered. Robbery, and not assault .is thought to he the motive of the crim‘d.

OBJECTION TO SALARY CUT

MELBOURNE, This Day.

• Objections on constitutional grounds by Judges of the Supreme Court to tile proposal to reduce their salaries ,n common with those of members of the public service, were, presented to the State Cabinet. Permier Hogan said the latter objections had been consided but no decision had been reached; REDUCED SALARIES. ADELAIDE, This Day. The President of the Industrial Court, Mr Kelly, made an award providing for a general reduction in salaries of school teachers, amounting to ten per cent per year. ' TYPHOID CASES. SUVA, October 17,, The report that there is a typhoid epidemic in Fiji is absolutely incorrect. There are; only two cases .in the colony outside the Suva municipality- , '