AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3629, 16 November 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PREMIERS’ CONFERENCE. Received 11.10 a.m. MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr. Hughes will probably be sailing for London in April to attend the Conference of Dominions Premiers.

SIR A, CONAN DOYLE.

SYDNEY, Nov. 15. Sir Conan Doyle, interviewed, said he did not think he would write any more novels, unless he could see a novel which would help people to understand spiritualism. He did not feel inclined to discuss present-day tendencies of literature. During the past few years he had been reading up spiritualism so closely that he had had no time to watch any other developments. Sir Conan Doyle to-night delivered his opening lecture at the Town Hall, which was “packed. THE KHAPRA BEETLE. SYDNEY, Nov. 15, The Minister of Agriculture has secured a report from the departmental experts which disproves the statement that khapra exists in Australia, The report adds: “-None of the entomologists have ever found! thfe khapra beetle in New South Wales wheat, and they are equally certain that it has not been found anywhere else in Australia. It will probably be established that the khapra lias not been recorded as a wheat pest anywhere but in Indin.”