AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 September 1924, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AMENDING MARRIAGE LAW

3Y CABLE—PREBB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Sept. 12, 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 12. (sTlie Assembly read a third time the Marriage Amendment Bill, Avith the aid of the closure, by 41 votes to 23.

NEW SOUTH WALES’ GRAIN CROPS.

SYDNEY, Sept. 12

The Government Statistician reports that the estimated area sown in wheat for the current season is 1,913,700 acres, of which 340,000 acres will be harvested for grain and the remainder cut for hay. An increase of. 4256 acres sown compared with 192£r

CHURCH UNION. SYDNEY, Sept. 12. The committee’s report on church union between the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches of Australia lias been presented to the Presbyterian Assembly. It stated, inter alia, that the fact that there is such divided State feeling and opinion among offiee-bearers and the people of the Presbyterian Church over bringing about organic union- makes it inadvisable, for the present, to press forward to organic union on a common basis of doctrine and polity at the risk of serious division and fresh separation. The committee therefore recommended that negotiations be suspended.

ENRIGHT MURDER

SYDNEY, Sept. 12

In connection with the Enright murder the police have discoveriul parts of a man’s clothing and a. torn paper on a window ledge; also an empty cartridge, case of .22 calibre. The bullets in the body have not yet been closely examined. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.