STOP PRESS ITEMS

Evening Star, Issue 19774, 26 January 1928, Page 12

STOP PRESS ITEMS

LONDON WOOL. SALES

January 25.—At, the wool soles 11,021. halos were solil. (if which 7,095 were Australia’! and 3,100 New Zealand. There was •an excellent selection of both merinos and cross-bred,s, with .an animated and excited maikot mid koenei and more general competition. Prices were very firm. New Zealand sales:—“ Oniapere,” 22d and 2ld; “Tehee,” 21)d and 20d; “ Ngatimata,” 23)d and 19d; “Jlawai,” 22Jd and 20d; “ Topuru,” 22Jd and 21d; “ Waikua,” 23d and 20d.

TRAi.d SMASH IN SOUTH AFRICA

CAPE TOWN, January 25.—The engine of a passenger train 1 jumped the rails at Kishoek, a small marine suburb near _ Cape Town. Two third class coaches, the occupants ot which, were chicily natives, also left the rails, and were smashed Five natives were killed and twenty-six injured. One Kuropean was killed and one injured. .

POINT CHEVALIER TRAGEDY—WIFE SHOT IN BED

Investigation of the Point Chevalier tragedy shows that Peter Closs, a get i 'about llnny-iwo, was discovered jnsc before, noon lying in lue tiaelv iletrway m Ins pyjamas, with In’s liead shattered by the nisciiarge of a single-barrelled .sporting gnu, which lay across the bony, in tiie front bedroom was lotind the corpse ol his wile, Mabci t. loss, whose nil was blown almost completely away, the gun having evidently been bred at her from behind as she lay in lied. When found, the hotly of Airs Closs was clothed in a nightgown, and her hair was about iior shoulders, suggesting that .she was shot in her sleep. . There were twin beds in the room, Airs Closs occupying the one nearest the window. The second bed. which had been slept in, was' nm.naipictl. , The police have formed the theory that the woman was snot by her husband as he sat on his hod. Closs had evidently le.lb the bedroom, passed through; the sitting rqom, emptying ami reloading the n un as he went. An empty cartridge case was found lying in (he middle or the floor near an open gramophone in the sitting room. Gloss's hoclv was found huddled at the hack doorway with the gnu Ivin" across him. A loop of string tied to the trigger was evidently the iiio!in> by which he had discharged the weapon.—Auckland Association message.

KIRK GOLF TOURNEY

In the Kirk goll tourney the following are the host cards in the first nralil viii" round of the championship'—Alorpeth. i() (equalling the ee'iir-e record'i CVnwav. 75. Uosa 78; H. A. Black, 78; J. -Black, ;■? D.-lison. 78; Seifert. 80; APKwaii, 80; Shanks, 81; Nigel Smith, Si - W. It. Smith. 81; * Horton. 81; _ Grant, 81; Goss, 82; husk. B.'; Arthur Duncan, 82.—Press Association.

BOYS’ ASSOCIATION CRICKET.

The position in the Otago-Canterbury Boys’ Association matches 1 (senior and junior) at 3 p.m. was .—Seniors—Canterbury 210, Outgo five for 27. Juniors—Canterbury WO, Otago four, itm 20>