AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18255, 25 November 1933, Page 14

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

A Melbourne message says it is predicted in well-informed circles that Mr. a M. Bruce will receive a peerage during the celebrations. Impressive scenes marked the official Inveiling and opening- of the war ihemorial carillon at Bathurst. According to the Minister for Customs, of Customs and excise duties last year totalled £1,760,000. At Wollongong a thief who had thrown pepper in the eyes of a clerk »nd knocked him unconscious, opened a Safe and stole £3. , The Methodist Church proposes to establish a mission for natives in the heart of Arnhem Land. Federal financial assistance is sought. 1 Mainly owing to the drift in railway revenue, the Victorian finances for the four months of the financial year show a deficit of £2,478,000. This is £71,000 more than the deficit of last year. , Alexander Richard Landon, 9, of Culcairn, New' South Wales, has died from tetanus. The boy ran a splinter under the nail of the big toe. The injury at the time did not appear to he sufficiently serious to" warrant the attention of a doctor.

Henry Hastings Hammond, a farmed at Taree, was gored by a bull. The tip of the animal’s horn entered his mouth and ripped open his face to the temple. The bull then tossed him into the air, and he fell on a fence, fracturing several ribs.

A plan for Federal action to facilitate the marketing of primary products has been completed by the Minister for Commerce. The scheme is believed to provide for the validation of marketing Acts which may be passed by the States, acting in co-operation. A suit is being heard in Melbourne in which Mr. Hogan, M.L.A., is challenging his expulsion from the Labor Party. Sir. Hogan, a former Premier, has brought the action against members of the central executive of the Victorian Labor Party. ; . A 15-year-old boy, son of the assistant lighthouse keeper at Swan Island, in Bass Strait, was accidentally shot dead. In response to distress signals, the steamer Kowhai called at the lonely island, and took the boy’s body to Bridport.

The jury gave a verdict in favor of the defence in the Supreme Court at Brisbane in the action in which Randolph Bedford, M.L.A., claimed £20,000 damages from the Telegraph newspaper and George Melton, jun., for alleged defamation. Mr Justice Henchman gave judgment for the defendants, with costs. Tlie Speaker of the Senate at Canberra has declared that women wearing

"slacks’ will not be allowed in the precincts of the House, as such dress does not conform with the dignity of Parliament. The Speaker of the House thinks otherwise, and declares that “slacks are no worse than other forms.of dress worn by women. The order of seclusion applies therefore only to the Senate,| The Federal Government has increased its grant to Papua by £6OOO, making the total amount for 1933-34 £40,000.

A Sydney w.oolhuyer was severely injured when, walking in his sleep, lie fell 15ft. from a hotel window. .Regret is expressed in Anglican circles at the news that the lvcv. E. Wvnne Evans, superintendent of Gr’oote Eylandt mission, in Northern Australia," had met with a fatal accident.

Two brothers, Messrs. \V. If. and R. Latimer, who had been business partners 'for. 30 years, died in Sydney on the same day.

At Moree, a boy of 10 years was committed for trial on a charge of having feloniously slain Hylton O’Neill, 12. Australia has undertaken, by an agreement with silver-producing countries. to restrict silver exports for four vears. The agreement was made to enable large accumulated stocks of silver iu India to be successfully liquidated. In response to a newspaper advertisement for 300 girls inserted by Woolworths (Victoria), Limited, who arc about to start in business in Melbourne, about 3000 girls assembled at Central Hall. Although interviewing did not commence until 9.30 a.m., crowds had gathered in Little Collins street shortly after 6 a.m. Several representatives of the firm assisted in interviewing the applicants, but at a late hour in the afternoon there were still many applicants to be heard. All ages and types were represented.