AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22816, 27 February 1936, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

.' THREE MINERS KILLED ' THE BODIES RECOVERED KALGOORLIE, February 26. Three men lost their lives in the Golden West • Mine, near Coolgardie. The victims were Richard Young, aged 27, Alexander Henderson, aged 34, and L. Lethridge, aged 26. Nobody witnessed the accident, but it is believed that one man got into difficulties in a shaft where there was foul air and that the other two lost their lives in endeavouring to rescue him. The bodies were recovered. THE M'ARTHUR CASE MELBOURNE, February 26. The High Court has begun the hearing of argument on a motion on behalf of J. W. S. M'Arthur for special leave to appeal against the New South Wales Supreme Court's judgment dismissing his application for a writ of prohibition directed against the extradition order.. Mr W. L. Ham, K.C., contended, on behalf of the appellant, that the warrant issued in New Zealand under the Fugitive Offenders Act was invalid because the circumstances of its issue had not satisfied New Zealand law, and there was no sworn information by a person having a practical knowledge of the offence alleged against M'Arthur. A New Zealand detective, F. Robinson, had admitted in his depositions that he knew nothing about the circumstances. He had merely acted upon the instructions of his superior officers. Mr Ham. also claimed that the only legislative authority capable of conferring jurisdiction upon the magistrate to order the fugitive's return was the Commonwealth Parliament, which, up to the present, had made no law covering the particular circumstances of M'Arthur's case. The hearing is proceeding. ' PAINLESS DENTISTRY SYDNEY, February 25. The i Australian Dental Association, through its research department, is conducting a thorough study of Dr Hartman's dental " desensitiser" (for painless fillings), the results of which will be announced in March. In the meantime certain selected members of the association are trying it in suitable cases, the available results of which are claimed to be up to SO per* cent. ,a success. .THE LABOUR CONFERENCE MELBOURNE, February 26. (Received Feb. 26, at 11.55 p.m.) After the Labour Unity Conference ended to-day the Federal Secretary (Mr M'Namara) announced that the delegates had decided that the next triennial conference of the party, to be held in Adelaide in July or August, would review the platform, rules and constitution.