AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 58, 7 February 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

FLYING STONES. INTO ALDERMAN'S BATHROOM. SYDNEY, Jan. 16. At last night's meeting of tho Redfern Council Alderman Burcher complained about the throwing of stones at street lights. Alderman McGrath: It is not tho lights alone that suffer. I cannot keep a diningroom window in my own place. Every time a new pane is put in it is smashed. The other day a stone came crashing through my bathroom window with such force that it broke a mirror which was hanging on the wall. The matter was left to the Mayor to deal with. , , Later when an application for permission to erect a light over a shop window was received, Alderman Castles said that it w'ould be another target for the "forty thieves." They would soon smash it. BOY SAVES MATE. UNDER-WATER STRUGGLE. GRAFTON, Jan. 16. A schoolboy named Arthur See, aged 12, has been honoured at Maclean. Some weeks ago he was sitting on the bank of the Clarence river and saw Murdock Mcpherson, aged 8, in difficulties. See plunged in to tho rescue, but the frantic boy clutched him. Both boys disappeared, but See, after a desperate struggle under water, dragged his mate into shallow water and safetv. The grateful parents presented him with* a gold medal and a gold wristlet watch. WEARNE'S LAST RUN. COMING ELECTION HT3 LAST. SYDNEY, Jan. 17. "I do not wonder that some men will not stand for Parliament," said Mr Wearne, Minister foP Lands, at tho official luncheon at St. Ives' Show, yesterday. "Sometimes I get tired of public life," added the Minister, "and I do not intend to keep in it much longer. I am offering my services to the electors again next election, but if returned it will be my last term in Parliament." MORE FOREIGNERS. SLAV, GREEK, SYRIAN. ITALIAN. MELBOURNE, Jan. 17. One of the finest foreign immigrant vessels to enter Hobson's Bay is the French steamer Cephce, which has just arrived. -On board were 881 Jugo Slav, Greek, Syrian and Italian immigrants. Before the war the Ccphee was a German cargo carrier, but when handed over to the French she was converted into a first, second and third-class passenger uner. Comparing the third-class immigrant accommodation with that of other foreign vessels, that of tho Cepheo is far superior in cleanliness, comfort, and in the food offered. The passenger faro (third-class) from Marseilles to Sydney is £2B. \\ine is served with meals and the steward in charge claims that the table requirements arc kept scrupulously clean. This is the Cephee's third voyage to Australia, and in addition to bringing steerage passengers, she carried a number of first and secondclass travellers.