AUSTRALIA
[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] <LONG WALK COMPLETED. SYDNEY, May 10. boylah Chappelow, a young man who last year set out to walk to Perth and back for a small wager, completed his task yesterday, when he returned to Sydney. NEW GOLD-FIELD. ADELAIDE, May 10. Rich samples of gold have been found in a six-mile wide area at Kooringa, in the Upper North. One miner has secured thirty-two ounces of gold from four and three-quarter tons of stone. ' ' WESTRALIAN STORM. PERTH, May 10. The city of Perth was swept on Friday night by a terrific north-west gale. Many of the houses were unroofed. There was a sixty-mile an hour wind, which banked up the water in the Swan River, which consequently flooded the low-lying areas of Perth.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1931, Page 5
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