AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 251, 22 October 1926, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS.

N.Z. DRUG ADDICT. NOT WANTED BY RELATIVES. (By Cable—Press Association.—CopjrigDt.J (Received 1.30 p.m.) t SYDNEY, this day. The police at Sydney have been noti* .fled by the Now Zealand police taat relatives of the New Zealand drug , addict who was found wandering in the •street at Sydney and arrested are not prepared to pay his return passage to New Zealand. As the man is penniless he will be cared for by the New South Wales police, pending further inquiries. The man in question was arrested in Sydney on October 10. He is stated to have twice escaped' from Rotoroa Island. WORLD CYCLING RECORD. BROKEN BY OPPERMAN. ; (Received 1.30 p.m.) \ MELBOURNE, this day. By covering 100 miles unpaced in 4k 23m 39s Hubert Opperman broke the world's and the Australasian professional cycling records. TREATMENT OF NICKEL ORES. SYDNEY, t'.iis day. A Belgian engineer has arrived, en. route to New Caledonia, to superintend the erection of blast furnaces for the treatment of nickel ores. The plant, which, it is claimed, will be one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, will take IS months to complete.

Goal will also have to be imported and treated for benzol and coke.

EMPIRE DELEGATES. A HOBART, t'jis day. The Empire Parliamentary delegation has arrived to commence a tour of Tasmania.