AUSTRALIAN ITEMS

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14774, 13 October 1921, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS

VENTURESOME VOYAGERS. (United Press Association.) SYDNEY. October 12. Lieut. Mahlhauser, of the Naval Reservo, with a crew of two, arrived in a 28-ton yawl, completing the voyage from Plymouth to Sydney via Panama. LABOUR'S OBJECTIVE. BRISBANE, October 12. The Labour conference is discussing a motion that the socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange bo the objective of the Australian Labour Party. Later. The Labour conference rejected by 10 to 9 an amendment moved by MiTheodore that the objective lie nationalisation and co-operation through Parliamentary machinery. The motion for socialisation was subsequently carriedSTEAMER SERVICE RESUMING. SYDNEY, October 12. Advices received here state that the Messagerios-Maritimcs Company is resuming its pre-war services. An agreement lias been reached for a fourweekly service between Marseilles, Noumea and Australia. ANGLICAN INDEPENDENCE. SYDNEY, October 12. The Anglican Synod has endorsed the principle of Bishop Long's proposal to sever the legal nexus between the church in England and Australia. The matter has been referred to the dioceses. RYAN-MERCURY LIBEL ACTION. MELBOURNE, October 12. Counsel for the late Mr T. J. Ryan have secured permission for the Public Curator of Queensland to continue the appeal against the verdict in the Mercury libel case, the Curator substituting himself as appellant.