A FATAL QUARREL.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 307, 27 December 1924, Page 7

A FATAL QUARREL.

MURDER OF A BUSHMAN. TRAGIC DRINKING BOTJT. DEAD ON A BED. (By Cable.—rress Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. David Williams, a timber getter, was found shot dead at his home at Cedar Creek, near Somford. It is stated that Williams and another Ulan had been drinking together, when a quarrel arose, and there were threats Of shooting. The otner man left, but later returned. Mrs. Williams set out for Samford, and had proceeded a short distance when she hoard the sound of a shot. She returned and found the body of Williams on a bed With a gunshot wound in the breast. A largo body of police are now searching for the other man.— (A. and N.Z.)

CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND. THE DESERTED CITY. FAMILY FESTIVITIES. (Received 10 a.m.l LONDON, December 2C. Christmas Day was mild and fine, and the sun was shining for some hours in the morning. Services in the churches were well attended, and the coming and going of the congregutions gave the streets an aspect of animation which disappeared later in the afternoon, when the West End was without buses. There were only a few taxis and a stray pedestrian or two. London resembled a deserted city. The hotels and restaurants later in the evening attracted a number of diners out, but altogether Christmas Day this year was characteristically English, a family festival with little public celebration.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)