AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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CYCLE RACING. SYDNEY, Jan. 27. In a motor paced ten miles exile derby at Penrith speedway. Nichojsoii sustained a puncture and retired. Only one competitor finished.

In the all (lowers live miles motor cycle handicap Stratton tiiiislied second inltis heat and second in the final. The aiiniver.-.ury live miles scratch race for motor cycles under five hundred cy resulted Stratton 1. Timas 2, Elders 3. Won by 120 yards, at an average speed ol seventy-two miles hourly.

PICKPOCKETS ESCAPADE. SYDNEY, Jan. 27

Holiday crowds at Randwiek race ootirse and Bondi Bench yesterday were provided with unexpected excitement. A racecourse detective arrested a man picking pockets and placed him in the office while he went for a policeman. The arrestee attacked the attendant and escaped. He was traced to Bondi and xxas found in a bathing costume on the beach, and after an exciting chase, owing to the crowds, a plain clothes constable cornered the man in the baths and covered him with a revolver. Another surfer, who was deaf and dumb thinking the constable was attacking the man, held the constable, and the wanted man attempted to wrench away the revolver, which exploded and shot him. He rushed to u motor ear. told the driver that he had injured himself on a rock and persuaded him to drive to the hospital. Ell route lie seized a rug and covered his bathing clothes. He then jumped out and escaped .

DELEGATE WITHDRAWS. (Received this dav at 9..'10 a.m.) BRISBANE, ,January 28. The Tralles and Labour Council has decided to withdraw the Queensland delegate from the industrial mission to America. WOOL SALES. BRISBANE. January 28. The fourth series of wool sales eoneluded with no change in the market, compared with previous sales but competition was more restricted, resulting in heavier withdrawals. COMMERCIAL. BRISBANE, January 28. Wheat is os 2}d to 5s 3d; flour £l3, cash os concession ; oats, milling 2s 2d, feed 3s; barley, English malting ,‘is. •Is 3d, Cape 3s Sd, 3s 9d, feed English ss, 3s 4d. 3s Oil, Cape 3s 1(1, potatoes £7 10s, :£}) (is, onions £3, £3 10s.

A MISSIONARY'S VIEWS. SYDNEY. January 28,

Reverend Butcher, Congregational missionary at Papua for twenty-two years addressing the Millions Club stressed the terrible effect motion pictures were having on the minds of the natives of Papua, lie said they were lowering the natives’ respect for white women, and added that the West was absolutely shattering the life of the natives. Diseases hitherto unknown among them were prevalent and gambling which was unknown before the whites arrived, had now become a curse.

LABOUR ADMISSION. SYDNEY, January 28. Gillies, who supported Loughiin. in the latter’s attempt to wreck the Government. has been re-admitted to the Labour Caucus. BANK MERGER. PERTH, January 28. The Western Australian Bank has been absorbed by the Bank of New couth Wales. The price is stated to be £1.909,000. representing nearly 55s per share. A meeting of shareholders is being held to ratify the merger. PRICE OF BREAD REDUCED. SYDNEY, January 28. Following reductions in the price of flour, the price of bread is reduced a farthing per txvo pound loaf. FLOOD EFFECTS. BRISBANE, January 28. Barge areas of land in the Perwil-lowen-Districts are moving but it is not known whether they are land slides as a result of rain. In one instance a farm moved bodily across a road a chain wide and a road in the vicinity disappeared for n distance of a mile. Rumbling sounds have been heard, and wide fissures are appearing in the ground. Many residents are removing from the district. Rain has ceased in most districts and the flood waters are subsiding but great areas are still inundated and ifa will he some time before an estimate of tho damage can he made.

CHILD ENDOWMENT. (Received this dav at 8 a.m.' SYDNEY. Jan. 28

A sub-committee of the Labour Partv appointed to inquire into the Family Endowment Scheme, after discussion, proposed, inter-alia, that la national scheme of child endowment should be instituted on the basis of five shillings weekly per child, to bo granted to families with incomes up to £4OO. It was suggested thaL starting price betting shops in the State should he licensed, and the revenue utilised to Hiv a portion of the endowment. It was also proposed that a State lotteiy should he instituted and that probate duties, stamp duties and tax on higher incomes should he incruised. The conditional resolutions arrived at to-day, will be a matter for further discussion to-morrow. It is intended that the Endowment legislation he dealt with before Pallia ment is prorogued. PROPOSED LABOUR DAILY. SYDNEY, Jan. 28. The Australian Workers Union Convention discussed Che. question of establishing 'a daily labour newspaper either in Melbourne or Sydney. It was .suggested each union member should pay a levy of £1 sterling to provide funds therefore. The matter is still under discussion. A MAN STABBED. SYDNEY, Jan. 28. As a result of a quarrel at Curpabulmla near Tamworth. Evrio lioness was stabbed with a carving knife and died shortly afterwards. Joseph Taylor was arrested and charged with murder. TWO MEN KILLED. ADELAIDE, Jan. 28. Richard Fulton and John Berks were killed as the result of a premature explosion at the Government quarries. Bert King was seriously injured. 810 WHEAT YIELD. SYDNEY, Jan. 28. \ preliminary estimate of the wheat harvest for the State is 50,223,000 bushels, an average of 15.1 bushels per acre, which is thirty-one per cent better than the average of the past ten season 'and is an increase of nearly seven million bushels over the previous harvest.