Australia

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 83, 22 March 1919, Page 5

Australia

HUNNISH WHITES Sydney, March 21. At the Methodist Conference the Rev. Watson, missioner to the aborigines in Northern Territory, declaring that he had stood in compounds where blacks were driven, and men, women and children shot down. We spoke of the atrocities of. the Huns. There were men in some districts of the Northern Territory with the same instincts as ourselves scattered and raided by these white devils. Whole communities were wiped out. LIQUOR REFORM PARTY. TEMPERANCE ITS CHIEF AIM. bvdney, March 21. A Liquor Reform Association has been started. It is representing the moderates as opposed .to what are described as the revolutionary and uns( 1* ntific proposals of th< Prohibition extremists. The chief aim of the movement is the elimination of undesirable, hotels and licenses, and securing a reduction of the alcoholic strength oi liquors. 0.8. U. DIAOIMLD VS TRIACHIRY. I 22, 10.35 a.m.) I Sydney, March 22. I Mr. John Storey- denounced the ' One Big Union movement, charging |it as base treachery to the Labour 'party.—(A. and N.Z.) NOTES FROM VARIOUS STATES (Received 22, 10.35 a.m.) Tlie tramway strike at Melbourne has been settled.—(A. and N.Z.) The Federal Government is revising the tariff in view of the development of Australian production and industry.—(A. and N.Z.)