AUSTRALIAN NEWS
AIR FORCE CROSS. (Australian Press Association.J (Received 8.30 a.in.) SYDNEY, .March ]|. The Prime Minister announces the Air Force Cross has been awarded to Flight Limit. Chillies Eaton of HuRoyal Australian Air Force in recognition of his valuable services in the operations in Central Australia for the lost aviators Keith Anderson and K. Hitchcock and more recently -Messrs Citteridrugb and Ha in re, who were located alive.
jDEPARTURES EXCEED ARRIVALS (’Received 8.30 a.in.) SYDNEY, March 11. ! Permanent departures from Au-sfcra-j lia in January exceeds the permanent arrivals by 1139 persons. AUSTRALIAN FINANCE. SYDNEY. March |L A further drift of £’1.922.000 is revealed in the return of the Commonwealth finances for February. The expenditure for 8 months of the j financial year exceeded the revenue by j Cl 3,409,000. I The State expenditure for 8 mouths j exceeded the revenue by £0.820.852. j West Australia receipts for the same I period were £5.291.507 and expendi- J tun; £0,509.022. !
STEAMER ASHORE. SYDNEY. March 11. A wireless message received at Sydney states that the British steamer Temple Pier is ashore close to Piper Island light, on the North Queensland coast, about one hundred miles south of Thursday Island. The message added that assistance was not required.
SECESSION MOVE. ADELAIDE. March 11. The Leader of the Opposition. Air Butler, declared the more one considered the disastrous effect of federation, the more one was inclined to support the movement for secession. Premier bill, commenting rm Air . Butler’s statement, said .to advocate j secession at the present time when j Australia was passing through a fin-j ancial crisis, was tantamount to going j into tile wilderness without making I provision for the inevitable consequen- > i
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