AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3524, 10 July 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

NORTHERN TERRITORY INQUIRY. DR GILRUTH’S STATEMENT.

Received 8.35 am.

MELBOURNE, This day

Dr Gilruth’s answer to Justice Ewing’s findings in the Northern Territory Inquiry contends that Justice Ewing’.~: report bristles with in accuracies, while suppl~ession and false suggestions are common. With reference to the Colnmissioner’s view that Gilruth is an able man, and in a. sphere for which providence intended him, very much above the aVerage_ DP Gilruth comments that unfortunately the Connnission insufficiently divulges the confidence of the Almighty, and fails to state the sphere wherefore He intended Gih-nth. We asserts that his official actions while adininistering the Territory met with the approval of each and every Minister under whom he served.

Received 11.5.

SYDNEY, This Day

Over three hundred nominations have been aheady submitted to the Labour executive by" aspirants for appointmont to the 1.0"-g‘is'Tafive «Council.-

It is r:sl"inmt‘ed ten millions have been «limcfly lost in Australia as a. result of the Broken Hill strike, this being the approximate sum receivable from lead, silver, and zinc from oversea were the mines not stopped. Wages lost. by employees is estima-ted at seven and 3. half millions.

‘NEVVCASTLE, This Day. Sailcd: Tarawera, for the Bluff. MELBOURNE, This Day.

’ .A. non-party meeting of a. number of members of the House of Representatives appointed a deptltation to wait on. Mr" Hughes requesting the Cabinet t 6 plaee. -£300,000"‘3n the Estimates for the purpdse of proceeding‘ with the work of the Federal capital at (Tanberm.

The Commonwealth has removed the embargo on ‘(Che export of=sheeps.kins.

The V.ictol'ian. Wheat Colllmission is making :u*a.ila.ble a quantity of fair averagc ql‘}{llit§’_ wheat for "export to Affica and the East at 16/ per’bushel ~——:L record price for Au.<tl'alia.