AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16768, 29 June 1925, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BACK TO THE MOVIES,

OFFER TO PAULINE FREDERICK,

MELBOURNE, June 16. —Pauline Frederick, who is now appearing in “The .Lady” at the Theatre Royal, has received an offer from Universal Films, to appear in four pictures, at a salary of £13,000.

Sho will eoncludo her Melbourne season this month.

” ’PLANES AND BOMBS.”

WAR ON FLYING FOXES,

BRISBANE, June 10.—Some members of the Flying Fox Board speak of the existence of the pests in millions in the scrubs around the cultivated area.

The suggestion has been made that their camps might be located by aeroplane and then wiped out by gas bombs.

CRASH INTO CREEK,

DRIVER DROWNED,

ALBUBY (N.S.W.), June JO.- T While crossing a temporary bridge a .single-seater car broke through the railing and fell into the water, the driver, Hiltou Corise, being drowned.

The car turned a somersault, but Corise and his companion Eric Deviue, both land selcsmcu from Ivilda (Vic.), were thrown clear. Tho water was deep, however, and neither could swim. A resident, hearing cries, climbed out on an overhanging tree, and managed to thrust a pole within reach of Devine. Cerise, however, sank.

PLAGUE OF MICE. HAVOC WROUGHT IN CORNFIELDS. BRISBANE, Juno 16.—Millions of mice are devastating maize crops in the South Burnett district. At night sounds come from 'tlio cornfields as though a herd of cattle wore moving among the dry stalks and leaves; Countless pock marks cover tlio soil, the imprints of mice feet, and tlicir burrows and runaways arc everywhere. Signs of destruction arc on every stalk of corn, and the stench, even in the open paddocks, on some farms, is sickening. Disinfectant has been freely used around barns during threshing operations to allow the men to work.

CLERICAL PUNCH

A FIGHTING PARSON,

SYDNEY, June 16.—There is a real lighting parson in Sydney.

Beneath his clerical cloth he con coals a left that is packed with cordite—and a wicked right. Ifc is the Rev. Pat Leonard, D. 5.0., padre to a British regiment on the Rhine in 1919, who arrived by the Maimganui to-day. In competition on the Rhine he outpointed bflicers of senior and junior rank, and they hailed him as middleweight champion of the officers’ class. “But they weren’t much at boxing, ” he pleaded modestly to-day.

Once Bombardier Rice, an aspirant for heavywoight honors in England, was billed to fight a Digger. Through some cause tho Digger was detained. Padre Leonard fought three dazzling exhibition rounds with 'Rice instead, much to the delight of the assembled troops.

“TO-DAY, JAPAN ASKS.”

BISHOP OF TOKIO SPEAKS.

CIOUF.BURN (N.S.W.), June 1(5 “To-day Japan asks equality; tto-mor-rowbshc may demand it,’’ said Bishop Heaslett, of South Tokio, in an address last night. He was in sympathy with the White Australia policy if it were possible, he said, but' lie felt very strongly that all Australians did not realise the strength of the living forces in the East, with which some day they must come to terms. The time was passing, if it luid not already passed, when terms could be dictated to Japan. Dr. Heaslett, however, stressed the fact that the spread of education among the farming classes of Japan was creating a body which inclined to peace., AIT they asked was equal treatment to that accorded in Japan to Australians or Englishmen. The young Japanese party would get what they wanted through peaceful means, if possible, but they would get it. The rioting at Shanghai was an instance of what the dpi and of the younger generation might mean.