AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3552, 14 August 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

FEATHER HUNTING PROHIBITED.

eßceived. 9.55 am

SYDNEY, Thisday.

The "Custmns Authorities announce that visitors to the Commonwealth wil_l_ not be allowed to. land with pro-_ hibited feathers. A recent arrival was obliged to hand over osprey feathers worth £IOO ‘ The net profit of the Broken Hill Proprietary for the year ended 31st Ma_v, was £517,000. ‘

MELBOURNE, This Eiay.

In _t.he House of _Representatives, the Industrial Peaffe Bill was read a third €inle_, _

n Pater and Mclntosh arrived from Long Reach. .

THE ESCAPED NUN;

DECL./XRED VSANE AND LIBER.AT- _ ET) ~ ‘

EXGITEMENT IN SYDNEY.

SYDNEY, Aug. 13.

There Was a. great crowd at the Police Court Where Sister Ligouri was Dl,"9S€llt€Cl -On a charge of es-caping from a convent. Medical experts haViDg €l'dJ'udged' her sane, she was i"lm9di&’E'f3T'3’ discharged, and left amid demonstrations with those who had befriended her since she escaped from the convent. (IXA cable received on th.e 10th inst. said: There is much public interest in the case of Sister Ligouri, :1 nun who escaped from a. convent at Wagga, and was brought to Sydney, where she took refuge in the house of 21. Congregational minister until arrested under ,WeLrrant issued at the instriiice of the Roman -Catholic Bishop of the Diocese the information setting out: that Bridget'Partridge, otherwise Sister Ligouri, was a. person deemed to be insane and without means of sup’port. The Court remanded her for seven days to the reception house for expert medical observation. The Court was densely crowded, Protesrtantg organisations taking‘ a Dromineun part in the case.)

NANKI POO WON")? ACT.

‘ ‘BLACK" ’ CHOR AL SOCIETY.

TROUBLE AT DARVVIN,

DARWIN, August 5.

The boycott by the unions against the local paper culmina.ted in an unyusual cerisis t"o‘-night. The opera “The Mikado” was being staged by the local choral siociety. Lieutenants Purer and Mclntosh were present as the guests of the society, and -the hall was full am} was beautifully decorated. It! was discovered at the last mopxent that one of the principal performers-, who was playing the part of Nanki Poo, would not perform. All the other performers were present, and were made up ready for the performance. Then it ‘was learned that the choral. society was “black”hb_ecause it had

some tickers pl'illted at the local paper Oificeg after the trouble occurréd there. The person playing Na/nkiu POO szould not be replaced, and the Society had perfo-rec to -refund the xxmnxey to the large audience present. The- performance was bein-3' hold for the Remmed Soldiers’ Associ:Ltion and the Scwlxfilicrs’ -Monument Fund. V