AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15794, 7 April 1922, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SETTLING IMMIGRANTS. FINE EXAMPLE.

PERTH, March 28.—The New Settlei ■t, League in two days after the arrival of s the Osterley's immigrants, had placed - all of them, except two married couples, iin farms occupations. Since January 1 the League has placed 172 immigrants in a rural, occupations, and is ananging with i formers to absorb 153 who will arrive i in the Hobson's Pay on Friday ~ . ' MELBOURNE ANGRY. i TALK OF FEDERAL CAPITAL. = MELBOURNE.' April I—The Age says that the .statement of the- president ;; of. the Australian Natives' Association, • that, Australia would never be-thorough. ' ly Federated in the, spirit that would • make, it- truly great, until the Federal • Parliament met in its own capital, is • "meaningless twaddle" and indicative ° of the depths of insignificance and -impotence to which the A.N.A. has sunk. ' A SACRED TRUST. J WHITE AUSTRALIA. ! ADELAIDE, March 29. The Prime Minister, speaking at- the Adelaide ) Town Hall, referred to the necessity for immigration, in order that- the waste t spaces of Australia might be developed. Mr. Hughes said : "l have no patience with those who speak about impairing I the great principle of a White Australia. L _ I am frankly for a White Australia. 1 believe Australia, was handed to us in 5 sacred trust to be built, up .as a .white • man's country. Let us bring in our ' white fellow-citizens." 1 STARVING IN STREET. ] OLD DOCTOR'S PLIGHT. SYDNEY, March 29.—William John . Lawrence, who for 45 yeaiia.practised as 1 a. doctor in London, and 1 who is the ; owner of property in England, was found in an almost starving condition in Princes Street, city, last night. He is a single man, aged 74, with' no friends in ' Australia. He is a, remittance man, but three days ago the last of his money was " spent, on a, little food, and yesterday he ", collapsed. He.w.as, revived by the t'reat- ; merit at the hospital and was sent to . Liverpool, where his needs will he attended 10. WIRELESS V. CABLES. 1 • CHEAPER MESSAGES. \- SYDNEY, April I. The commercial ; community of Sydney expressed nnf qualified approval of tin; agreement eiv- , tered . into between the Federal Gov- , eminent and Amalgamated Wireless j (Australasia) Ltd., forthe establishment . of a direct wireless service between Aus- , tralia and the United Kingdom. , The rates provided for .in the "agreement are apporximately one-third lower • than the existing cable rates. Week- . end cables were formerly accepted at a, cost of Is per .word, but this c'oiiees- ', sion was discontinued during war time, and iias since been re-established. SHEARERS', WAGES. J BID FOR BIG DECREASE. BRISBANE, April I.—Sweeping rei duel ions of wages and' rales for pieee- : work in the shearing branch of the pas- ■ (oral industry were claimed, by employers before Mr. Justice M'C'awley, in the : Arbitration Court to-day. With regard to piecework a reduction of 33 per cent.; was asked for, and a reduction of 25 per cent, for weekly hands employed in the industryMr, Edkhis, for the. United Graziers' Association, said it was desired that the Queensland award be brought into line with that of the Federal Court. The latter would be dealing with, the question early next month, and'if, was desirable that the judgment of .the Queensland Court in the present matter be withheld, if possible, until the pronouncement of the Federal Court. ..' ,-.-•.' Unless a. more favorable outlet was found for. their meat a number of station owners would have to resign their holdings. The other five States, had, agreed to accept the. Federal award,, and ho thought Queensland should fall .jnto line. , -; judgment was reserved. ~' -. STOLEN MOTOR CARS. AN INTER-STATE SYSTEM. MELBOURNE, April I.—Since the, police some time ago discovered the existence. of an inter-State system lif stealing and disposing of motor cars, the searches for the stolen ears- and the thieves have extehded over, a wide area of Australia. ■Some days ago, a large "Sunbeam" car, valued at £I3OO, which was stolen from South Melbourne on September 6 last, was recovered at Nyngan (N.S.W.), with the number changed and several parts altered. It had been" sold to R. H., Carter, a grazier, ,of Ngngan for £SOO.

Shortly before the transaction a bill of sale for £so' had been given over the car, ,and,. when registering the bill, the supposed owner had to supply a full description, of the car. This was published in the New South Wales Government, gazette,, and from that, the police were able to truce the missing car. , , j ,' ~..;..' '. Further inquiries resulted in the arrest of Herbert Leslie Handley, motor mechanic, at Tut urn, on a charge of having stolen the car. ~,V LIFE ON THE MOON. POSSIBILITIES DISCUSSED. ( SYDNEY, April-I,—The possibility ol "Life on the Moon" was discussed in a paper by Mr. G. A. Taylor, read-at. the monthly meeting of the- Npw South Wales brancji,.of the. British Astronomical Association.' The conclusion that the moon was dead appeared, to Mr. Taylor to be a 'seUback, to Nature's great law of progression.' 'Nature never rested, butniadq. e-very allowance for .change, and consequently it was impossible, to ..imagjiie, any, world as lifeless. As physical habitudes changed, so- did creatures adapt-themselves to the changing, .conditions. The other side of, tlie moo/i- 'being , invisible to the earth, Tt wits a conjecture whether life had gathered on this side. The centrifugal theory of moon life gave one the impression that the density of the outer side of,the moon must be greater than the inner, and the jcentro of gravity would therefore be nearer thereto; and air and water being' transmit table, would by gravitation range as-near that point as possible. -Given air and water on the mooii. was it not reasonable to conjecture life?