and his. visit to Darwin will doubtless afford a welcome respite from embarrassments ut Canberra. Mr. Paterson was the Minister directly responsible for refusing to allow Mrs. Freer, a British subject, to land in Australia fame months ago. The ensuing controversy seriously affected the Government's popularity, and when the ban was suddenly removed this month members of the Opposition naturally demanded an explanation. Mr, Paterson's statement. that Mrs, Freer had been in New Zealand for several months was received in a spirit of levity, one Member enquiring what special virtues New Zealand possessed 4 "purging ground" for Australian When it was learned that the rmllitary officer whose association with Mrs, Freer was generally known to the real cause of the ban had been he had handing delicate situation in unromantic and rather shabby way.
The free and at times irrelevant discussion that followed the removal of the ban on Mrs, Freer brought to light the story of another pro hibited migrant, whose cate was dealt with "in a much more reasonable spirit. In 1921 Mr, Lum Roy, a Chinese subject, evaded the migration regulations, and settled at Condoblin, country town in New South Wales. Here he prospered, and his charity able activities made him £0 popular a member of the community, that when discovery rendered him lable to deportation hig fellow citizens pleaded his case with the authorities. So Mr. Lum Roy stays, freed at last of his sixteen years fear of discovery, and in Condoblin the hero of the Farmers Don't Care This June will long be remembered {in Victoria as the coldest month on record. There have been 20 fogs in the last 26 days, the minimum temperates have been the lowest ever recorded, and ice formed on the surface of the Yarra, which flowers through Melbourne, for the first time. Shipping and railway traffic has been held up, and city motorists have had to abandon their cars.
Those extraordinary conditions are attributed to the dry winter, usually the wet season in this part of the continent, but, by some. strange vagary of nature, timely rains have len in the dry wheat lands of the Mallee and Wimmera, Faced with the prospect of a drought, the wheat farmers are jubilant, and, aided by tractors with powerful headlights at night, they are sowing the late crops right' round the clock. Experts pre-let a good season, so what does It matter to farmers if city folk have to shiver in a seemingly" interminable succession of fogs.
The car in which the Duchess of] Kent was taking her two children, Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra, for a holiday at Sandwich, came into collision with another car on Wortham Hill, Kent, on July 26.
one was hurt and the Royal party proceeded by another car.
Mme, Madeleine "Fontanges, who freda revolver at Count Charles de Chambrun, former French Ambas~ sador (o Tialy, at the Gare clu Nord March 17, on July 29 received a [suspended sentence of one year in prison and a fine of Frs. 100. Mime. Fontanges accused the ex-envoy of interfering in her love affair with Sig. Benito Mussolini.
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