MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18135, 26 July 1924, Page 13

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Good rains continue in the greater part of Hew South Walqs, including the wheat areas, where the fall will prove of great value to growing crops. Following the discovery of a skull at Chelsea (Victoria), a black tracker discovered the decomposed body of a woman hidden in the ti-tree some distance away. Tho body had apparently been there for some months, A young woman, carrying a baby, accosted a small girl in a street at Paddington (Sydney) and askod if her mother would like a baby. The girl replied, "Oh, yes." Tho woman then handed over the child, asking that it be treated kindly,- and walked away. Tho police were advised, and the baby was taken to an infant welfare home, The New South Wales Legislative Assembly had an all-night sitting on tho Ne Temere Decree Bill. The Government, applying the closure, carried the second reading by 47 votes to 32, and then took the measure through the committee stages. The debate was at times warm, bristling with charges and countercharges of sectarianism and ulterior motives, British building trades employers have decided that the lock-out notices thus far suspended shall operate on July 26th. At tho inquest on tho Rotherfrithe schoolmasters and Kay, on© of whom shot tho other and then committed suicide, evidence was given that; the former's engagement to Miss Frankise, also n school teacher, bad bson broken off through a quarrel. Holmes never mentioned any quarrel with Kay, but a letter was found in Holmes s pocket from solicitors, who demanded payment of £3 3s for "services rendered re. yourself and Kfiy," Mrs Kay pave evidence that Miss Fr&nkis© occSr sionally visited their house. Several members of the House of Commons have petitioned the Secretary of State for Home Affairs seeking the reprieve, on the grounds of insanity, of knnce-Corporal Goldenberg, who waa sentenced to death for the murder of Mr W. Hall, bank manager at Bordon, near Aldershot.