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TRAINS COLLIDE MELBOURNE, April 8.
A crowded electric train collided with the rear of another train between Windsor and Balaclava during the peak loading, to-day. Both trains were severely damaged. Passengers were thrown out, and suffered shock, but nobody was seriously injured.
LIGHTNING STRIKES SPIRE. MELBOURNE, April 9. Almost completed, the Moorhouse spire on St. Paul’s Cathedral was struck by lightning. Men working on the building received a severe shock. The foreman stated that the lightning conductor saved the spire from destruction.
MONOWAI’S RECORD TRIP.
SYDNEY, April 9.
The Monowai’s voyage from Wellington to Sydney occupied 70 hours 35 minutes, beating the Maheno’s time of 72 hours 7 minutes, made in 1926. On Thursday night, the Monowai fought a strong westerly wind.
QUEENSLANDER KILLED ’ BRISBANE, April 8.
Captain Edward Shaw, a leading Queensland aviator, was burned to death, when his aeroplane capsized at Pittsworth Show, near Toowoomba to-day. Shaw was giving pleasure flights and also instructing a pupil, when alighting, the machine struck a fence, overturned and caught fire. The pupil escaped.
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