AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 13 April 1928, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

FUR FARMING. 1 PROBABLE ESTABLISHMENT IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, March 20. If the fur farming committeo has its way commercial fur farms will be established in Australia. Probably also such animals us llio silxer fox, skunk, iuiux and Angora rabbit will be introduced to the Common wealth. The advisability of these enterprises was discussed to-day at a meeting of the committee.

The secretary, Mr. S. Smith, said that the export of furred skins from Australia during live years ended 1927 was valued at £12,862,(95, and that tiie export of rabbit skins represented £9,437,256 of this amount.

MOUNT MORGAN’S END. ROCKHAMPTON, March 21. If any further proof were needed that the end of Mount Morgan, us the present generation lias known it, has come, it is provided this weak when the staff residences ai’d being sold under- the hammer. A start was made yesterday with Carlton House, built for the first managing' director, and later used as the directors' residence when they paid their yearly visit to the mine. Vice-Royalty, Premiers, and politicians were guests at Carlton House. It was sold for removal.

PLANE SMASHED. ORANGE (N.S.W.), March 20. A plane, piloted by Mr. R. M. King, and occupied by Mrs. T. Byrnes, collided wtili a hurdle on the racecourse to-day when taking off on a flight to Sydney. The machine was damaged beyond repair, but the pilot and his . passenger escaped with slight abrasions and shock. Pilot King, who is connected with, Air Travel, Ltd., has been flying for 10 year’s, and saw service in the GreatWar.

“WHITE” HOTEL': TWO'STILL “ BLACK.” DARWIN, March 22. Tlie Victoria- Hotel has been declared “ white” again by the union, but the boycott has not been lifted from the other two hotels, one of which does not employ any blacks. It is stated that the union declines to lift the boycott uutfl tho manager of the Club Hotel apologises for alleged statements reflecting upon the union executive.

LEATHER TRADE: SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS. * .... ... . _ . SYDNEY, March 10. v . -An important step recently taken .in tho. leather industry in this State was the formation of the New South Wales Leather Trades iSciontiho' Society by Messrs. Arthur Bayley, F. A. Coombs, and W. McGlynn. The new organisation has ivy its objects the advancement of applied leather science, or, rather, the technical consideration of everyday tannihg practice. y Word: now. conies from London that, a similar scheme has been mooted in connection with the Leather Sellers’ Technical College. The matter has also been taken up at a conference of leather traders at Northampton, where opinions on the influence of science on the trado were invited from a number of chemists. Reference to the new departure is made in the Australasian Leather Trades Review, where emphasis is laid on the growing feeling that .something must be done to, bridge the gap bet weep the.leather scientist arid the man in the lanyard.

CHURCH DEBT EXTINGUISHED. - MELBOURNE, March - 20. If was announced at St. Cuthbert’s Presbyterian Church, Brighton, that the treasurer had received a cheqiio for £1414 from Mrs. William Weatherly, of Halifax street, Brighton, with which to extinguish the debt at present existing on the church building. 1 The..debt was incurred many years ago, when, the new church was erected, and has been gradually reduced by congregational efforts, Mrs. Weatherly lias been a resident of Brighton for many .. years..

MAULED BY BEAR. TAMWORTH, N.S.W., Mar. 24. People going to St. Leon’s circus last night were ’ treated to an unexpected thrill when Tony-Morgan,' a Swcdo, was attacked bv a huge grizzly bear, which he was taking for a swim in the Peel River.

The animal, which usually is easy to handle, suddenly swerved round on his attendant and'bore him savagely to the ground, and commenced -to maul, him, lie had the presence of mind to lie prone on.the ground, and the.icircus staff succeeded,, after some trouble, in.,returning the infuriated animal tq its cage. . v .... Morgan received deep lacerations about the .thigh and body, and had .to Teceive medical attention.

DARWIN WARFARE. UNIONISTS FINED FOR. DRINKING AT "BLACK” HOTELS. DARWIN. March 24. A further meeting of the union-was held last night, ~wh,en., move, ipembcj* ryere brought before what is described as the ‘‘Court.of Injustice,” and fined RIO for ..drinking at a- “black” hotel. An employee of the Town Council, who was fined £lO, declined to pay, and told the union to seize the Town Hall, ;

Last .night he was assaulted by several men. but appears to have held lfis own against heavy odds. The union meeting was poorly attended, because a large number of members were celebrating the “whitening” of the. Victoria' Hotel, among the more prominent being many who recently violently advocated prohibition. Strong exception ...is , taken to. a prominent railway official presiding at a meeting called for the purpose of boycotting local business, peqplf-...,,