AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170572, 4 August 1921, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SUPREME AUTHORITY. By Electric Telegraph—Copyrigh t. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY, Aug. 2. By disallowing an application to appeal to the Privy Council, the High Court of Australia has now finally established the princiide that the Commonwealth within the sphere of its own constitutional activities possesses supreme legislative and executive authority over the States.

FLOODS STILL STRONG.

The flood waters In the western rivers are still running strong. Bourke and Mungindi are partially flooded.

THE LATE HON T. J. RYAN

HIS LAST SPEECH. BRISBANE, August 2. Mr Ryan was in the middle of a strenuous bye-election campaign. Just before the final seizure lie delivered an hour’s speech. His voice was husky, but otherwise lie was apparently in good health. MR HUGHES’S TRIBUTE. LONDON, August 1. When the news of Mr Ryan’s death was communicated to him, Mr Hughes was greatly distressed. lio said it came as a positive shock that a man in the prime of life should he so unexpectedly cut off. Though ho disagreed with him in. politics, he liked Mr Ryan as a man. His death would leave a gap in the public life of Australia not readily filled.

* BAKERS CLOSE DOWN,

PERTH, August 2. Practically all the bakers have closed as a protest against the Government’s refusal to raise the price of the 21b loaf to 6-Jd. Householders are doing their awn baking.

AIR SERVICE TENDER. Received 11.45 p.m., August 2. MELBOURNE, August 2. The tender accepted for the air service Geraldon to Derby provides for the beginning of the service on or before October 3. QUEENSLAND POLITICS. BRISBANE, Aug. 3. The Metropolitan District Labour Council expressed the opinion that the Government must shoulder the responsibility for the defeat of Labour candidates at the municipal elections, and passed a resolution that the Council is of opinion that Government is not prepared to adhere to the principles of the Labour platform It is better that it should resign office. - The Assembly will open on Tuesday.

N.S.W. PARLIAMENT. SYDNEY, Aug. 3. Mr Storey announced that the Assembly will meet on. August 30th. NEW STEAMER SERVICE. MELBOURNE, Aug. 3, The management of the Commonwealth steamers is, inaugurating a four-weekly service at the United Kingdom via Suez, calling at Colombo, commencing at the end of the year with the Moreton Bay, a 12,500 ton vessel now being built in England. Four others are in course of construction.

■STORMY WEATHER.

Received 10.30 p.m., August 3. SYDNEY, August 2. Stormy weather, winds, and a galo of force accompanied with intense cold, are preva.f?:*jg in the greater part of the State. Sailors report that the gale i-< the worst for many years. FLYIXG IN A BLIZZARD. MELBOURNE, August 3. Lieut. Parer commenced Ins flightround Australia in a biting wind, with rain and hail, accompanied by Mark Parch and Anthloiiy Kayes. SNOW AT BENDIGO. Blinding rain and hail storms are raging, and snow is falling at Bendigo, for the first time lor 25 years. MOTION OF CENSURE. ADELAIDE, August 3, In the Assembly tho Labour Party has given notice of motion of ceusuro irj the form of amendment to the Address in Reply, protesting against the Government decontrol of wheat;.