AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 22 June 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

WELCOME KAINS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) ADELAIDE, June 21. Heavy rain in the far North has broken the drought, and has opened up the cattle routes from the Northern Territory, enabling cattle to be brought south, and. thus relieving an .acute beef shortage. CHILD ENDOWMENT QUESTION MELBOURNE, June 21. The Premiers’ Conference adjourned to the 12th July, when it will reassemble at Sydney. After discussing child endowment, the Conference passed a resolution recommending the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate every phase of child endowment, particularly in relation to wage regulation, Mr Lang was the only dissentient. The Commission will be appointed immediately. MURDERER’S CONFESSION. SYDNEY June 21 Macpherson’s reported confession to the murder of Mrs Martha Quinn states that he had been drinking heav ■ily for five weeks .prior to the tragedy, He seemed mad and did not realise what he had done, when realisation did come to him, through reading the newspaper reports of the fatal shooting last Thursday nignt of Mrs. Martha Quinn, waitress,when she was on her way home.