AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Evening Star, Issue 15394, 19 January 1914, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

AS OLD COMPLAINT. Pren AwaodM&on —Br Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, January 19. {Received January IS, at 9.50 a.m.) The Minister of Education, in opening a new school at Clifton Hill, condemned the policy of importing experts from abroad to take precedence ot Australians. "Every encouragement should be given to fit oar own men to fill the highest positions in the land." A WIFE SEAYER. BRISBANE, January 19. Henry Fern* Hopgood called at ii» police station at Bowen Hills, and stated that his wife had been trying to poison him, and that he had killed her in a timber yard. The police investigated the matter, and found the body of Bridget Hopgood, with two wounds on the left side of her forehead. FTRE PRETENTION. SYDNEY, January 19. The annual zeport of the fire 'brigade shows that 1,500 fires occurred in the metropolitan area last year, 16 of them being classed "serious." The report urges the necessity of a hign-pressure salt-water service, with mains honeycombing the bnsiness portions of the city. N.S.W. FINANCES. SYDNEY, January 19. The State Treasurer proposes to suspend the operation of the sinking fond till the deficit of £1,911,000 has been wiped off the State accounts; also to modify the Income Tax exemptions in such a way as to bring in more revenue. MOTOR BOAT FATALITY. SYDNEY, January 19 By a motor boat accident near Riverview three men were drowned—Constable Kearney, Joe Green, and Richard Evans. The other occupants were rescued. It is believed that the boat struck a rock. TECHNICAL EDUCATION. SYDNEY, January 19. (Received January 19, at 10.45 a.m.) A new scheme of technical instruction by trades schools has been proposed by the Minister of Education. It will commence at the beginning of the new term. Courses are being prepared in building, plumbing, house-painting and decorating, sign-paint* ing, _ engineering, leather manufacture, printing, baking, tailor-cutting, boot. making, and various struotural and artistio trades. AN AMERICAN VISITOR. BRISBANE, January 19. Mr Walter Williams, an American jours nalist and the designer of the idea of schools of journalism, arrived by the steamer Mataram. He intends visiting New Zealand. He is studying the methods of journalism adopted in different part* of the world, and has been deputed by the principal newspapers of America to write artkleson social, political, industrial, and economical questions. Referring to the wool controversy, Mr Williams said that only a small percentage of people in America objected to wool being: admitted to the United States duty free. AIRMAN* HAWKER IN ADELAIDE. ADELAIDE, January 19. Henry Hawker, the famous Australian aviator, has arrived, bringing his Sopwith biplane. He intends flying to Melbourne from this city.