AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2005, 18 February 1913, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

>. -*T _■ aft, BY ELEOTBIO TBLEGBAPH—OOPYEIGHI. PEB PEESS ASSOOIATION, February 18, 8.40 a.m.) i J. D. WILLIAMS COMPANY. J Sydney, February 18. Frank Lloyd, late manager of the Crystal Palace Theatre, has been committed for trial on a charge of forgng an order to purchase 150,000 mares in the Greater J. D. Williams Amusement Company.. Bail of £1500 nas allowed. He reserved his defence. AN O'MALLEY SCHEME. Melbourne, February 18. The Hon. King O'Malley advocates bhe nationalisation of the steamer service between Australia and Tasmania. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. A mysterious tragedy occurred at Carlton. A woman with her head almost severed and dead, and a man ivith his throat badly cut, in a precarious condition, with a bloodstained razor alongside, were found lying- in the street. The woman had a handaag with a bank book which bore tho aame Alice Hudson. The pian is unknown. It is supposed to be a case _f murder and suicide. AT THE MOUNT LYELL MINE. Hobart, February 18. Five bodies have been recovered from the 700 ft. level at the North Mount Lyell mine. They were in a ivonderful state of preservation, and ill the indications point to their .having died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The clearing of the mine is proceeding steadily. (Received February 18, 10.25 a.m.) • Sydney, February 18. Arrived (at 6 a.m.)— Marmora and Ulimaroa (from Wellington). The weather is oppressively hot and steamy. There was a hailstorm at Cootamundra. Hundreds of windows were smashed and other damage done. The hail accumulated two feet deep. The public subscriptions for Victor Trumper's benefit total £865, nu.ki._i_; the grand total £2650. Paddon has issued a challenge to row Pearce on the Paramatta river for £250 aside. Any. title held by either man to go with the stakes. The race is to be fixed before the Pearce-Barry event, and rowed within a reasonable time after Pearce's return to Sydney. . Melbourne, February 18. Speaking at.the Empire Trade Commission's welcome here, Sir Rider Haggard said there was" no fairer jewel iv the British Empire crown than was set. in these seas. The great mass of the population of the British Isles knew little of Australia, Other parts of the Empire were thrust upon their notice to the obscuration of Australia. ■ He only wished that the plethora of population in Britain could be brought out here to the plethora of land—that the landless man could be brought to the manless land. Lord Denmaii, the Governor-General, gave a luncheon to the Trade Commissioners. Fremantle, February 18. The police made a surprising capture of seven Chinese stowaways on board the steamer Charon. The police boat was alongside awaiting developments, when the stowaways were lowered into it. In the darkness they had mistaken the police boat for the one that had been engaged to take them ashore.