AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 August 1924, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ADDITIONAL PUNISHMENT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. HOBART, Aug. 13. George Dotfns, who is serving a sentence of five years for the manslaughter of his wife, was sentenced to an additional nine years for unlawfully disposing of human remains. '<■ UNIVERSITY LECTURES. Received Aug. 14, 10.25 a.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 14. In the Assembly, Mr Bruntnell announced that it was proposed shortly to introduce a system under which university lectures could be delivered in country centres. The Senate felt it necessary that students should be placed in personal contact with the lecturer himself, and had agreed to a system of visiting by capable iectmes to country centres. RECORD PONY JUMP. BRISBANE, Aug. 14 The Chamber of Agricultural, Societies has decided to' recognise fhe performance of Mr A. L. Payne’s Hector in jumping 7ft. Jin. at Bowen as a world’s record for a pony 13.2 hands. WAR SERVICE HOMES. MELBOURNE, Aug. 14. To June 13 last 24,381 war service homes were provided in the Commonwealth, and an additional 1533 were m l course of erection or planned. The capital expenditure amounted to £19,621,690. ARREARS OF RENT. MELBOURNE, Aug. 14. It was announced in the Assembly that arrears amounting !to approximately £3,000,000 were due by soldier settlers throughout Victoria to the Closer Settlement Board, which is considering the question of extending the terms of the leaseholds and allowing the payment of arrears to be made up in instalments. DOUGLAS MAWSON’S CREW. MELBOURNE, Aug. 14. .e Administrator of .the Northern territory reports that the Huddersheld was sighted two hundred miles from Darwin on Tuesday, being a week out. FINED £SO. MELBOURNE, Aug. 14. The printer and publisher of the Argus was fined £SO for contempt of court. It was contended that the publication by the Argus of the fact that money paid into court in an action for alleged slander -was calculated to prejudice verdict. It was pointed out that neither the fact nor the amount of payment was made known by the judge or counsel. CLERKS ON STRIKE. PERTH, Aug. 14. Hie wholesale warehouses in Fremantle are deserted as a result of a strike ofnbou t two hun d red clerk s, who demand higher wages. WHEAT POOL. PERTH, Aug. 14. Cabinet decided to submit a proposal to the Federal Government to guarantee three shillings net at a sidinoplus- eight pence per bushel handlin'" charge to growers placing their wheat in a voluntary wheat pool during the coming harvest.— Aus.-N.Z Cable '