AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 19224, 14 May 1921, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

CAMPAIGN AGAINST DISLOYALTY. GOVERNMENT ACTION DEMANDED. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Ccrvrie’bt). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, May 13. The campaign against disloyalty continues actively. Many meetings and public bodies in this and other States have carried resolutions against the Union Jack burning incident, some demanding strong Government action to suppress disloyalty. THE REDS. POLICE WARNED OF DEMONSTRATION SYDNEY, May 13. (Received May 14, 1.15 a.m.) Mr Marks, a member of the House of Representatives, waited on the InspectorGeneral of Police and told him that he had been informed that an armed demonstration by supporters of the red flag was to be held in the Domain on Sunday next. PROTECTION OF WOMEN. SYDNEY, May 11. The Women’s Organising Committee of the Labour Party anonunces its intention of asking Mr Mutch to amend the Child Welfare Bill providing for the raising of the age of consent from sixteen to ■ eighteen. NEW SOUTH WALES’S DEFICIT. SYDNEY, May 11. Despite large increases of revenue, it is anticipated that the State’s financial year will end in an accumulated deficit of about £3,000,000. The chief causes are changes in connection with meeting the Board of Trade’s new basic wage and heavy calls arising out of unemployment. ORIENT MAIL CONTRACT MELBOURNE, May 13. In the House of Representatives the Post-master-General submitted the new mail contract with the Orient Company. He explained that it was only intended to cover the transitional period until the shipping position became more settled, and it was terminable on twelve months’ notice. It provides for a four-weekly ih place of a fortnightly service. The annual subsidy is £130,000. FEDERAL WHEAT POOU GROWERS’ REQUEST. MELBOURNE, May 13. (Received May 14, 1.15 a.m.) A deputation representative of wheatgrowers in the Commonwealth asked Sir Joseph Cook to back a compulsory wheat pool controlled by fanners, predicting absolute disaster to the industry unless this were done. THE COMMONWEALTH LINE. WOODEN STEAMERS LAID UP. MELBOURNE, May 11. Four Commonwealth Line wooden steamers are being withdrawn from the interstate cargo trade. They have been found unsuitable and will be laid up. WEST AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. CANNIBALISM RIFE. PERTH, May 11. Mrs Bates, who has returned from the Coldea district, where she has for years ■worked among the aborigines, states that cannibalism is rife there. At a recent initiation ceremony two natives were kilted and eaten. A woman killed and ate her new born baby. Another woman ate her four babies. Hunger was not the cause, but cannibalistic instincts.