AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 May 1925, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

NEW STATE IMPRACTICABLE. nr cAimt— muss association— cocvkigut. SYDNEY, May fc>. Cabinet has made available the report of the New States Commission, which finds any now State impracticable and undesirable. A minority report says a. new State in the north is praitoicaible, but under-the existing conditions is undesirable. Cabinet has not made a. decision on the findings of -the commission. STRIKE AT CANBERRA. SYDNEY, May 6. Twelve hundred workmen employed in the Federal territory at Canberra struck work -as a result of a meeting, which decided that the damping conditions' on the capital site were unsatisfactory. DEFENCE OF AUSTRAffi'. MELBOURNE, May 6. The Federal Cabinet is considering what, measures it will submit to Parliament. to 1 provide for the adequate defence of Australia, and to give effect to the recommendations of the Defence Council. Cabinet- is also considering the report of the naval authorities who ..attended the Singapore conference. TASMANIAN ELECT! ONS. HOBART. May 6. The general elections will be held on June 3. Seventy-four candidates, have been nominated for thirty seats. The official Labour Party has thirty candidates and_ there are two unofficial Labour cancTutates. The _ remaining forty-two. owing to the failure of all efforts, to unite the anti-SOcialist-forces, are submitting themselves under a. variety of names, comprising Nationalists, the Tasmanian Liberal Party ancl Independents.

BUR GLA RS SURPR ISED. SYDNEY. May G. The police were informed that burglars had entered the Central Free Bond. They watched them through a window for some time until a. key was procured. Two men, who were comfortably enjoying chaonpagne and other liquors, were then quietly surprised and arrested. PARKER FAMILY TRAGEDY. __ SYDNEY. May 6. Investigation of the Parker tragedy revealed that the. family had been farming in the Beckom for a number of years. When an. employe© Jefrfc th© ihiouee.i this morning everything was apparently in order. When he returned to the house for lunch .He found a note, which, stated: “Yon will find us all in the dam. May God forgive us. We cannot stand the strain any longer? ’ There' was a cheque for wages enclosed. The employee hastened to the da,in and -saw three bodies floating. The police'" recovered the fourth. Mr*. Parker had been in ill-health for some time. AH four were fully dressed. The cfraiimstanoes aTmost suggest a. suicide pact.