AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19196, 12 June 1924, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

THE NEW FEDERAL CAPITA!*. TRANSFER OF PARLIAMENT IN 1926. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, June 11. The chief architect of the Federal Public Works and Railway Department, giving evidence before the Public Works' Committee, said, that Parliament would be able to meet at Canberra in May or Juno of 1926. The permanent Commonwealth offices would not be completed till 1939. Provision was being made to house 150 or 160 members of the staff. Sixty or 70 houses would also be built. VICTORIA’S IMMIGRATION POLICY. MELBOURNE, June 11. Commenting on the fact that although! 52 Barnardo boys had arrived in Melbourne, all but one was proceeding to Sydney, the Superintendent of State Immigration said that the policy of Victoria was to obtain adult immigrants who could earn their living, and not young boys who would be partly dependent on the State or on private people. There were I no arrangements under which people who could not wholly support themselves would be Introduced to the State. WOMAN HOLDS UP BURGLARS. SYDNEY, June 11, Mrs Paulson, licensee of an hotel, lat® in the evening was informed that two strange met were upstairs. She secured a revolver, bailed up the intruders as they were leaving the room in possession of one of her dresses, and kept them covered with the weapon while they were searched. One of the men told her not to talk “revolver stuff,” otherwise they did’ not resist. She marched them downstairs, where the porter stood on guardwith a revolver while Mrs Paulson rushed into the street, got a policeman, and gay® the men in charge. THE FLIGHT ROUND AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, June 11. The seaplane piloted by flight-lieutenant M’lntyre, flew from Melbourne to Sydney in 6hrs 3niin, an average speed of 90 miles an hour. The machine -will return shortly, and it will then be placed in i the museum as the first plane to fly round Australia.