AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16348, 4 February 1924, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

SYDNEYj Jan. 3. The cricket team were passengers , for New Zealand by, the UUniarpa. tiivGStigatioiis arc proceeding in connection with a quantity of wreckage,' ; including a number of hatches, washed ashore between Port Stephens and*tho Sual.Rocks. So far tho authorities aro unable to decide "whether, these aro from a wrecked vessel or merely flotsam from passing ships. .''.'.-■ - \ ' Archbishop Kelly and-the Bishops of Armidale, Wagga, and Maitlaiid have sailed by the Ulimarda to participate in Archbishop Redwbod's : jubilee. \ MELBOURNE, Feb. : oi .. The Federal Customs 'revenue fOr tho, seven months increased by, £L,53?,000 , over the same.period of last year. A conference of Federal, jand various State treasurers discussed questions of ending the issue of Federal tax itfreo loamj and the control and co-ordination of borrowing. A motion was adopted recommending the liccossfty .of cooperation in raising loans on the Australian market and fixing the maximum rote of interest; at 6 per cent. Tho Commonwealth litis agreed lend West Australia £750,000 aiurQiiecnsland a million and n-quarter. \ (Received February 4, 11 a.m.) , . ~ , SYDNEY,. Feb, 4. ',' ■ 'Several outbreaks of redwatcr are re.ported in tho Tweed district.. Every precaution is being taken to prevent its spread. , . .. ,•. ~ ;, ■. .■ ~•;., ' v.,' ; , ■' The Secretary of the Master .Bakers sla'tes that, the position of tho industry is almost normal. , An application for 'lje-registrafibn of "vile Union will be heard to-day. ~ ,'. , A combined., meeting of Aberdare, South Aberdare, Central,' and Abermam hpners discussed "the alleg&d unsafety of., rhiries, ,bufc, carried no resolution pending a> report of the Chier, Inspector of Mines. ; It is considered..unlikely ,that work will-bo leßUined in,, any mines affected this week, the. stoppage render- , ing two thousand miners idle. The steamer Kadiijii, belonging to the Adelaide ■Sompany, has been sold to Japan.; ' : . ~. '., ~... - t ►,.'■■■«'' v Mr. Hughes, on leaving for an American lecturing tour, declared lie Ayas going to boost Australia and place her oh the map again. , ...' A prominent official in New Guinea has been brought to , Sydney and remanded on a charge of exporting, bird of .paradise plumes, which.are- prohibited., to a Hollander, on the Dutch New . Guinea border. Bail was,fixed at £2OOO. The A-aluo of the feathers was ; stated as bo\wm six and seven thousand pounds. T/Ihe Crown Law Department is arranging for a trust to administer £120,000 steriing left iuid^i-the. will of a: German name. Verge,, a. grazier in Kerhpsey - district, for the benefit of; New South Wales' returned soldiers. - ( . . During the races at Victoria Park the ; Leger stand caught fire. There was some ■ . excitement while patrons .were hurriedly vacating the; building,, which was, considerably damaged before the firemen .mastered the flames. •.. ;

A remarkable case is reported , from Bellinger. While some .children, were eating,water melon a seed was. thrown and lodged in tho ear of a little girl, y who developed severo pains in the head, •••;•■ followed by, partial paralysis. A. doctor s'. removed the seed, which had started to " sprout., ■: i , ' ..... ; (Received Feb. 4, 11.55 a.m.)' ' '" . Private tests carried out at Mossyalo - -' ■regarding the efficiency of sealed .wireless sets for the-reception of proarammes |, sent, out by broadcasting" companies provid that sealed sets were; at least equal in efficiency to ooen sets. MELBOURNE, Feb. 4. Mr. Chapman has announced that the- - Anglo-American liquor treaty applies to Australian vessels, in common with otheir British ships. Mr. Colin Rodgers, a colliery owner of »■ Newcastle, states he purchased in England tho rights for Australia and New "Zealand of a. new method of treating wool by dry process, which removes dirt, filth;'not burr, ■without bging detrimental to the condition of the wool. The final count in the Dalhouse by-\ election for the State Parliament resulted \ , in a win for Mr. Pollard (Labor) from Mr. McNab (Nationalist) by ninety voqs,.