AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 May 1928, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.* (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

ITALIAN MIGRANTS. CANBERRA, May 30.

The Prime Minister informed the House of Representatives that the number of Italians coming to Australia this year will be three thoussand, mostly women relatives of Italians already in Australia.

MOTORING TRAGEDY. PERTH, May 3.

Mrs Mills, wife of a country settler, was accompanying her injured son in a motor car to hospital, when she died. Her son, believing that shdjwas asleep, did not attempt to rouse her till at the journey’s end. LEAGUE REPRESENTATIVES. MELBOURNE, May 30. The Australian Delegation to the next Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva, in September, will be: —Senator McLachlan (Assistant Minister), Sir Granville Ryrie (High Ccmmissioner), Sir Harrison Moore, Mr. R. P. Baillieu and Mrs. Carlisle McDonnell, of Adelaide. MOTOR SHIP AGROUND. ADELAIDE, May 30. The motor ship Minnipa, of the Adelaide Steamship Company’s fleet, struck a rock off Port Lincoln, in a heavy fog. The vessel is aground; 160 passengers have been safely transhipped. The Minnipa will probably float off without a tug. BRIBERY COMMISSION. CANBERRA, May 30. The Prime Minister announced that the Royal Commission to inquire into Mr. Lambert’s charge of bribery against certain Labourites, who it is alleged, desired to pay him £BOOO for the abdication of his Federal seat, in favour of Mr Theodore, commences its sitting in Sydney next week. ARBITRATION BILL. CANBERRA. May 30. The amending Arbitration Bill, giving the Commonwealth wide powers over industries, and essential services, in case of strikes and upheavals, and giving the Unionists greater control over their own officials, passed the second reading by thirty-five votes to twenty-two, on party lines. FATHER AND SON. MELBOURNE, May 30. There was a most affecting scene at Spencer Street Station, when father and son, New Zealanders, were reunited after seventeen years, the father having lost all trace of the son for nine years, after the son’s enlistment for the war. The father was Andrew West, farmer, of Morrinsville. The son, Percy, will probably return with his father to New Zealand.