CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19726, 17 September 1929, Page 11

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

POLICEMAN'S CAE STOLEN. . SYDNEY, September IG. The limit of audacity was reached when thieves stole a policeman's car standing in front of the police station at Pymble. The car was found some time after its disappearance wrecked at the bottom of a cliff. The fittings had been stripped from the body.—Australian Press Association. PEDESTRIAN'S REVENGE. PARIS, September 15. When knocked down by a motor-cycle, a fisherman named Hippolyte Lambert lay waiting for two hours and shot dead the returning motorist, a farmer named Beuricet. The fisherman, when arrested, pleaded that lie only desired to frighten the farmer. —Australian Press Association. CABLE TRAMS REPLACED. MELBOURNE, September 16. The cable trams which have run through the city of Melbourne for 43 years now have ceased operations. The last passed through the city on Sunday night. Omnibuses will replace them until the electric tramway system is completed.—Australian Press Association. • GROCER'S BEQUEST TO ART. MELBOURNE, September 16. Under the will of James Allen, formerly a suburban grocer, the Melbourne Art Gallery receives his entire estate, of £32,000. —Australian Press Association. DEATHS FROM POISONING. (Received September 16th, 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 16. Two deaths from poisoning occurred in the staff quarters at an hotel at Parkes. May Harrison, aged 18, and Frederick White, were found in a bedroom seriously ill, and both died later. White explained before his death that he had given Harrison poison and consumed some himself, because she was "fooling him about marriage."—Australian Press Association.