AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11384, 9 December 1930, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

LORD MAYORALTY OF SYDNEY.

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Dec. 9, 12.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 8. Alderman J. Jackson, a member of the Legislative Assembly, is the nominee of the Reform party for Lord Mayoralty' *of Sydney. His election to-morrow is regarded as a foregone conclusion.

LABOR AGAINST PEERAGE FOR SIR ISAAC ISAACS.

(U.p.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received’Dee; 9. 1 a.m.) SYPNEY, Dec. 8, The Acting-Pi-imo Minister says: “The Government - liaS no intention of recommeding that Sir Isaac Isaacs bo raised to the peerage. The Labor party is definitely opposed to such a thing.

AUSTRALIA WILL NOT FLOOD CANADA WITH BUTTER.

fIT.P.A- /by Elec. Tel. Copy right) (Received Doc. 9, 1 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Dec. 8. •An official denial is given to tlio announcement' from. Canada that fntondea to solid 20 million pounds of butter to Canada by April in order to' flood that market. The local Canadian Trade Commissioner, Mr. Ross, has been assured that tho shipment null not exceed two and a-lialf million pounds weight. FURTHER RAIN-STORM DAMAGE IN VICTORIA. (U.P.A; -by Eire. Tel. -Copyright) i (Received D<jc. 9, 1 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Dec.. 8. Thoro was more drenching rain today, mostly-in the' wheat belt in Northern and North-Western Victoria, wlioro thorp 'were registrations of frorft- 8 to 11 inches since Friday. Crops in sonic /instances aro three feet under water. Haystacks have been washed away,; There was one victim,of drowning, Thos. O’Brien, 47, a stockman, who was' trying to removo cattle from the danger zone in the Seymour district. He was swept off his horse. His body .was discovered entangled m a barbed wire fence.

PROTEST DISMISSED. (U.P.A, by ' Elec; Tel. Copyright) . (IWh-oU .. The protest ~ hyb A. v- J. Ransom against J. G.. Hunter : of New Zealand being awarded; the -Reeves Handicap chop at : -Ulvorstono on the grounds f that he supplied; insufficient performances: was, dismissed. ADELAIDE MUNICIPAL ELKC- . ■ " .--.--mONS,/--.-. • (U.P.A. by. EleC..;, .Tel.-;. Copyright) “ : 'ADEEAIDE, Dec: 8. • A 1 feature of the municipal: electnms m the' city* yvaS tlio, return of an unendorsed Laboritc,/ whq ;. easily 1 4 bated' Hid/ endorsed..; sitting’ 'member. ‘ LahoritC'fe- werdi'alsd d,efdatcdrtn: ,tw« .organised stroiighblds . Port Adelaide and Port Pirio,, the. casualties; in tho latter iiicTtTtl'ing; the. Legislative Assembly member, Mr. 1’ ltzgerald, who has been Mayer for fivo years. '■ ■' . ;, \ .4 ;.