AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3501, 1 June 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE PRINCE’S TOUR. A W()RLD’S RECORD STRIKE. Received 9_25 a.m. SYDNEY, This Day. The military authzo-rities have been instructed from Melbourne to remove the names of Rev. Jerger and Hirschfield from the deportation list pending a. reconsideration of the matter. MELBOURNE, This Day. 'l‘he Prince is staying two days in the country. He spent Sunday with Mr Hughes, and enjoyed an exhilarating gallop to Mr Hughes‘ mountain home at Sassafras. incidentally halting for hilly tea. The Prince was delighted with this aspect of Australian bush life. He visited Caulfield Military llnspital on. Monday, stopping at each bed and cheering patients. One soldier asked if the Renown ’s band could visit the hospital. The Prince consented. His Royal Highness was welcomed by five thousand soldiers, sailms and nurses, and presented with golden soldier paper weights on a silver Australian map. The Prince, condoling with the bereaved, expressed his genuine delight at renewing £l.O- - with innumerable SOldim‘s'. The Commonwealth is releasing butter stored for the Imperial contract to relieve the shortage. A Mr Hughes despatched a fal"3wn]l message to General Birdwood, al)praciating his visit to Austaralia. _ The chairman of Broken Hill Bloc}:

10 is of opinion that—t.-he New South Wales Government Commission would successfully terminate ‘the Barrier strike, which is described as a worm record. A conference is fo be held at Sydney on Wednesday. NEWCASTLE, This Day. Arrived: Kaiwarra, from New Zealand.

THE JERGER CASE. SYDNEY, May 31. It is announced that the authorities have promised a further inquiry into the Father Jerger case, pending deportation. It is now ascertained that Father Jergei-’s internnient was the outcome of allegedly Adisloya,l~utt.erances, including some from members of Father Jerger"s own church, led the authorities to take action. The whole incident is causing an unusually widespread revival of bitter sectarianism, combined with fervid loyalism.