AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1923, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

(Australian and N.Z. Cable .Association.) O HEAYDON MYSTERY. SYDNEY, July 23 The police have discovered one of the missing trunks in connection with the Coogee tragedy. If the second one is found, the police say the mystery will be solved. NEW GOLD FIND. PERTH, July 21. An important gold find is reported at Allen’s “Mighty Atom” leases of the Mutooroo Company, comprising a huge hill. The- lodes are. 20ft in width. One lode is stated to carry 50ozs of gold to the ton. The average over all three lodes is estimated at sozs to the ton. VICTORIAN COURSING. MELBOURNE, July 22. In the Victorian Waterloo Cup, Aranity Verse, and Union were left in the final. After going 50 yards however, Vanity Verse stopped and lay down, being apparently seriously hurt. She was thereupon withdrawn. It was found later, that she had dislocated a joint in a hind leg. A WELCOME VISITOR. SYDNEY, July 21. Miss Ethel Campbell, known as “the Angel of Durban” to thousands of Australasian soldiers, who called at that South African port during the war, because of her unwearying attenion to their wants, has arrived, and was given a demonstration welcome by soldiers and public. MAITLAND MEMORIAL. SYDNEY, July 21. A 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 new wing to the Sydney Hospital costing from £30,000 to £o’ A large amount has already been subscribed. CROSSING FATALITIES. SYDNEY, July 23. A motor car crashed into a mail train at the East Street crossing near Parkes on Saturday evening, and killed Mrs Winifred Miller and her son, and seriously injured two others. Eric Miller, another son, escaped injury. “ LATER. Mrs Miller’s mother was also killed.