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Per Press Association—Copyright , PROROGATION. ■ Received December 15, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, December-15. The Federal Parliament has been formally prorogued. WIRELESS CONFERENCE. The proceedings of the Wirless Conference are being conducted in private, at the request of the Admiral, owing to defence matters being involved. WRECKAGE. SYDNEY, December 15. Two, hatch covers, a piece of a gangway, and an old-fashioned deck chair were washed ashore on Manly Beach. The wreckage had apparently been in a fire. The hatch covers are marked P2 over LB. * A CHIEF OFFICER DROWNED. Received December 15, 9.50 a.m. . SYDNEY, December 15. Mr Witt, the chief officer on the German mail liner Plaven, accidentally fell overboard when twenty miles off the coast, on a voyage from New Caledonia to Sydney. A life-buoy was thrown, which he got hold of, and a boat was lowered, but Witt was evidently taken hold of by a large shark. THE HEAT IN SYDNEY. "Yesterday's heat has been reached only on four occasions for December.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 7933, 15 December 1909, Page 3
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