AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

(s)y Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) DR. PELTZER’S ADVICE. SYDNEY, February 17. Doctor* Peltzer, interviewed, expressed surprise that his remarks while in New Zealand, concerning Australian conditions ■ and development, had been so misunderstood. He spoke only as a student of economics, and with all the fervour of one wishing this country well. Australia was one of the richest portions of the world, but should cut down borrowing on a large scale, until she could see the possibility of repayment during prosperous times. MR THEODORE’S STATEMENT. i SYDNEY, February 15. Mr Theodore in his reply on behalf of the Federal Government, to the Sydney Labour Conference criticism and direction, said: “The Government will submit to no outside dictation, but it .will act upon its own judgment and responsibility. The Government has no power arbitrarily to take over coal mines, nor have we any warrant for sending Commonwealth troops to the coalfields. We already have done everything which our extremely limited powers will permit us, to bring about a settlement in the coal dispute. We are still in close contact with the unions concerned, in the hope of finding a solution.”

MURDERED ITALIAN. SYDNEY, February 16. The detectives inquiring into the murder by stabbing of Dominico Belle at Newtown on Tuesday, think that (he victim was murdered by a member of the Black Hand gang of Italians, a branch of which exists at Sydney. Anonymous jnessages and newspaper clippings reached the police, also a jumbled list of almanac figures, all of which were submitted to an interpreter, who advised the police that Belle was the victim of a vendetta sworn in his home country, where he left his wife seven years ago. He came to Australia, since when he has been living here with a French woman, who declares that she was unaware he was married.