DARWIN INQUIRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 5, 6 January 1920, Page 5

DARWIN INQUIRY.

COSTLY DEMONSTRATION FARMS. NO ONE TO DEMONSTRATE. (Received 9 a.m.) DARWIN, this day. Before the Darwin Commission to-day, Mr. F. S. Carey, ex-Director, was'cross examined at length regarding allegations that certain officers connected with the Aborigines' Protection Department wer< got rid of in order to prevent the trutt coming out regarding the alleged HI treatment and debasement of th( aborigines. Mr. Carey denied this. H also denied the Insinuation that the onli men wanted by the Gilruth Administra tion were cringers and crawlers, or tha the Palmerston District Council wa: abolished because Dr. GHruth could no manipulate it, and another Council wit: three Government members out of sevei substituted. The evidence disclosed that <he exper diture on one Government demonstrs tion farm was £31,000 and the revenu therefrom £752- On the other farr the expenditure was £1130, and th revenue £96, spread over several years (Mr. Barrett, solicitor, asserted tha Dr. Gilruth did not desire agriculture t succeed in the territory. TKs wanted t decry the White Australia policy an cell the territory to a syndicate like th British South * Africa Company. Mi Carey admitted the Administrate never had anyone on the demonstratio farms who could demonstrate, but h denied the policy was to show the terr tory was no good for white men with Tiew to selling it to a meat company.----(A and N.Z. Cable.)

FLOODS IN EUROPE.

KAISER'S HOME rMPERHXED\ PARIS STREETS SUBMERGED. AMSTERDAM, January 5. A rising of the Rhine is threatening Amerongen Castle. The ex-Kaiser is busily engaged in carrying wood to the menaced parts of the castle wall. The floods are the highest for 40 years. Th? water has destroyed • 150,000,000 bricks in the brickyards district. The Seine has ceased rising in the upper valleys, but the strets in the outskirts of Paris are still submerged with 2ft of water. Boats are being used. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)

FOOCHOW INCIDENT.

VJ IT.RI>BAWAX .OF JAPANESE -WARSHIPS. PEKING, January 5. Tt is officially announced that the Japanese warships at Foochow -will withdraw.—(A. and N-Z. Cable.)

EGYPTIAN AUTONOMY.

SUPPORT FROM PRINCE , ETJSSEIN. CAIRO, 5. -Prince Hussein, son of the late Sultan, and five gTandsons of Mohammed Ali, * have issued a proclamation addressed to the nation declaring their solidarity with i the nation's demands for complete independence.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

POET'S TREASURY ROBBED.

ROME, January 5. The Trieste correspondent of the "Messagero" states that d'Annunzio's cashier"has fled \rith £40,000.—(A. and K2. Cable.)