AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4594, 22 May 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SOME GENERAL ITEMS. (By Electric Cable—C;opyrighc.) (Aust. and N.2. Cable Association Sydney. May 2'J. Correction: In the Badak case, the jury asked whether it could find one ■occused guilty on a certain charge apart from conspiracy, and handed a document to the Judge. On pergusing it he said: "You can say that." The foreman then announced that the jury unanimously Agreed (that the three accused were not guilty, but believed that Orteu was individually guilty of misrepresentation. Obituary.—Mr H. A. Howden, four times amateur golf champion of Australia. Several addresses on Empire Day were delivered yesterday, the keynote being the necessity for combatting the poisonous propaganda disseminated with the object of undermining the British Empire. The Hon. A. Bruutnell, Minister of Education, was eulogised for discree compelling the saluting of the flag. Though 11 members of Cabinet signed the prohibition pledge before the elections, it is believed that the question will not be touched till the end of next year, as money is too dear for compensation purposes. The Labour Conference in June will discuss motions in favour of prohibiI tion. The central branch of the Australian Workers' Union has issued a statement that the union always favoured in dustrial arbitration, but when a so obviously unjust award was given as Mr Justice Powers gave for the shearers it was doubtful if membors will continue that policy. A meeting of the bush workers' propaganda group, passed a resolution in favour of the Brisbane award of 1921, and opposed the reductions suggested by Mr Justice Powers. Steps will shortly be taken to devise means for resisting the latter. Mr W. Wingrove Osborne, a mining engineer for nearly four years in the Malay States, says there is an American invasion of those States. If the depression in the tin trade continues the Americans will dominate the whota industry. The Americans look to the future with confidence, and arc buying extra areas whilst the low prices are prevailing. Melbourne, May 22. The committee appointed to raise £750 for Joseph Kirkwood, the golf champion, dispatched £SOO on Saturday. After examining 210,000 persons, principally natives in Australia and Papua, the Federal Department of Health has demonstrated that hookworm does not exist in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and West Australia, with the exception of the north-weast. The disease is found to be limited in extent to the coastal regious of Queensland, North Australia, and the north coast of New South Wales. Of the persons examined in New Guinea 74 per cent had the disease, and 59 per cent in Papua. In Queensland the figures varied down to 4 per cent.