AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17702, 2 March 1923, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FEDERAL POST OFFICE. (BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION^ MMiBOUiWi'E, March i. The Post Onice profit for 1921-22 ! totalled £1,540,000, compared with £1,114,000 during the previous year. YARRA TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, March 1. The Coroner's enquiry into the Yarra tragedy has commenced. The supposed relatives have so far been unable to identify the body as that of Bertha Coughlan. Frank Bonfiglio, the divorced husband of the accused Hannah Mitchell, gave evidence that during last November he visited Mitchell's house and Mitchell told him a girl t"here was very ill. She asked him to help to carry the girl to the bathroom and in the bathroom Mitchell performed an operation on the girl, who was then carried back to the bedroom, where she died on the following night. Witness alleged that Mitchell wrapped the body in a blanket and with his resistance conveyed it in a motor car to a deep guliv at Coldstream, where Mitchell removed the blanket and covered the body with ferns, saying it would be eaten by some animal in a few days, and nobody would know who she was if they found any remains. '