SHOCKING OUTRAGE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3044, 3 April 1917, Page 7

SHOCKING OUTRAGE

COMMERCIAL MAN BRUTALLY

MURDERED

(Rec. April 2, 10.45 p.m. 5 Sydney, April 2. A shocking outrage has been discovered at a boardinghouse in. Katoom- . ba. George King, a prominent Melbourne commercial man,'was found, dead in hed, gagged, his skull battered —presumably with! a hammer—while the adjacent walls and, furnituro were splashed with blood. Horbert Shaw, a youth of nineteen, has been arrested in Sydney in connection ,witli tho out- ■. rago.—Press Assn. .... ; . . ■'

OBITUARY

LORD MUNCASTER. (Rec. April 1, 5.5 p.m.)

London, Mareli 31.' Lord Muncaster, who,whs connected with an extraordinary brigand tragedy at Marathon on April 21-1870, isdead. —Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. ,

[Lord Muncaster (the fifth of the-r line), was born in 1834, andsorved in the Crimean trenches, and in all the attacks on the Redan as a captain in the Rifle Brigade. . The reference to the brigand outrage is obscjire, no mention ,of it being found in out available records.]

COMMONWEALTH NOTE ISSUE

Melbourno, March 31. > The note issue amounts -to £47,303,-' 500, ajid ' the gold rcscrvo to £15,988,913.—Pre5s Assn..

IN TOKEN OF WOMEN'S SACRIFICE"

AUSTRALIA'S WAR s MEDAL. - '■ Melbourne, March _81< The Federal Government is issuing a medal to the -wife or nearest relative of men', enlisted for service abroad, as a recognition of the women's sacrifices. —Press Assn. ■' .

PRICE OF.BEER RAISED

London, April 1. The price of heer, has been raised to ninopence and ten ponce per pint; bottled beer to Is. 2d. to Is. 4d. per pint-.-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.