AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 18334, 23 July 1923, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

RAILWAY CROSSING ACCIDENT,

MOTHER AND SON KILLED,

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association.

SYDNEY, July 23. (Received July 23, at 11 n.m.)

A motor car crashed into a mail train at the East street crossing, near Parkes, on Saturday evening, and killed Mrs Wilfred Miller and her son. and seriously injured two others. Eric Miller, another son, escaped injury. (Received July 23, at 12.25 p.m.)

Mrs Miller’s mother was also killed in the motor accident. SOLDIERS’ FRIEND. SYDNEY, July 22. Miss Ethel Campbell, who is known as “ The Angel of Durban ” to thousands of Australian and New Zealand soldiers who called at the South African port during the war, because of her unwearying attention to their wants, arrived in Sydney, and was given a demonstrative welcome by soldiers. MEMORIAL TO SURGEON. SYDNEY, July 22. A public movement was initiated at a representative meeting for a memorial in recognition of the public services of the late Sir Herbert Maitland. It was decided to start a fund for the erection of a now wing to the Sydney Hospital, costing £30,000 to £50,000. A large amount is already subscribed.