AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 3 September 1929, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S POLICY BUDGET AND REPEAL OF ARBITRATION AtJTS. NO SCHISM IN NATIONAL PARTY. [United trees Association—By Cable— Copyright.) [Australian run! N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 3, 10.5 a.m.) Sydney, Sept. 3. The Rt. Hon. S. M. Bruce, in the course of his speech at the Constitutional Association, said: “There is no schism in the Federal National party. The Government is going ahead with the Budget and the repeal of the Federal Arbitration Acts.” Should the Government be defeated on the Arbitration Act, he said, the Prime Minister would immediately hand in his resignation and the Commonwealth would have to find another Government. NO SUCCESSOR TO PRIME MINISTER. MR. ABBOTT’S OPINION. iAustralian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 3, 11.0 a.m.) Canberra, Sept. 3. The Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Abbott, speaking at a dinner, said: “As I see it, there is no successor to the present Prime Minister. Any other leader produced by treachery or rebellion would be rendered impotent by the inevitable ties of an unholy alliance.” 13,000-MILE TALK. PREMIER CONVERSES WITH LORD PASSFIELD. [Australian and N.Z Press Association.] (Received 3, 10.5 a.m.) Sydney, Sept. 3. History was made when the Prime Minister conversed with Lord Passfield, in London, by means of radio telephone transmission, arranged by Mr. Fisk, managing director of Amalgamated Wireless. The speakers discussed inter-imperial trade relations. They are the first two Ministers of the Crown who have communicated directly from the Commonwealth to Britain. The 13,000-mile talk lasted ten minutes and the speakers were amazed at the clarity of the reception. TIMBER HAULER’S TRAGIC END TERRIBLE SUFFERING ENDURED. [Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 3, 11.0 a.m.) Brisbane, Sept. 3. Terrible suffering was endured by John Robertson, a timber-getter, who died in the Rockhampton hospital He was walking behind a team when he was knocked unconscious by the dead limb of a tree and fell under the waggon, the horses apparently stopping immediately. Upon regaining consciousness he found himself pinned by an arm and unable to get free. Robertson was not found until the following day. Meantime the wound in his arfn became fly-blown and ants attacked a wound in his head. The arm was amputated, but the effects of the ordeal were too much and he died. His wife, owing to illness of the children, was unable to visit her husband before his death. CUSTOMS REVENUE INCREASES. WELL ABOVE THE ESTIMATE. [Australian and N.Z. Press Association.! (Received 3, 10.5 a.m.) Canberra, Sept. 3. For the first two months of the financial year, July and August, the Customs revenue is already £1,721,193 above that for the first two months of last year and £1,200,511 more than the Treasurer’s estimate. STEAMER DAMAGED. [Australian and N.Z Press Association.] (Received 3, 10.5 a.m.) Sydney, Sept. 3. The steamer Kalingo, which arrived at Sydney last night from Greymouth, via Melbourne, crashed into a stone abutment of Glebe Island bridge. A hole was torn in her side, fortunately, above the water-line.