25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 38, 8 November 1933, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

0 Site for Australian Capital

(JTroin "The nonunion,” November 7, 1808.) The balloting in the Australian Senate for the capital site was conducted amid a good deal of excitement, and resulted in the choice of the Yass-Canberra site, selected by the House of Representatives. The first ballot was a tic, Yass and Tumut each securing 18 votes. This was the outcome of some secret engineering. Supporters of the Dalgety site, knowing that certain Victorians intended to vote for Tumut with the idea of afterwards transferring their votes to Yass, combined to vote for Tumut, so as to produce a tie. When the tie was announced, the Dalgety men claimed that the whole question was ended, but the President of the Senate insisted that each of the sites nominated must be balloted for. The final ballot resulted iu the Yass-Canberra site securing 19 votes, Tumut 17. There is intense irritation iu France with regard to Germany’s latest demana —refused by France—for an expression of regret for the violence offered Recently at Casablanca. Morocco, by French gendarmes to a German Consular official ana those under his control. The newspapers unanimously support the refusal ot France to apologise. Sir Felix* Schuster, the' weU-lmown banker, addressing the Institute of Bankers. suggested that the present was a favourable time for the accumulation ot gold reserve, since trade was falling otr and production of gold increasing. oerious proposals must, he said, be P laCv before the banking world during the yea • The cycle of dear money appeared ro have ended, and apparently the cycle or lean years was in sight. Sixteen thousand Servian troops occupy tlie heights round Belgrade. One half’of the Shumadia division and too additional regiments, have been oy oro ‘ to Belgrade. The bullion in the Bank is going to Kraguyevats. capital of the province of that name. o 9 miles south south-east of Belgrade. Troops on the frontier near Bosnia and M. ” , (Austria's latest annexation) have bee reinforced. Austrian troops 'IW"» tren-hes along the Servian frontier.