AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1934, Page 7

AUSTRALIA

[by CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] ( DUKE OF GLOUCESTER. } BRISBANE, December 9. ( Prince Henry had a free, easy, day £ on Saturday, and went su.rfing at ( Wooloobah. After a quiet week-end. , ho leaves to-morrow forNeiWffialand ( by the warship “Australia.” ” FARM TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, December 9. At Finley, in Southern. New South Wales, the inquest yesterday was concluded on the three young daughters of John Vincent Dale, who were j found with their throats cut lying in ( bed. The father, Dale, was committed for trial. i DOCTOR’S OPERATION. PERTH, December 10. Doctor Frank Gallash, of Kellerberrin, with the aid of mirrors, watched his own appendix being removed by another practitioner. The operation was performed after a local anaesthetic was injected in ithe spine. NEEDLE IN HEART. SYDNEY, December 9. Doctors' at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital removed a two-inch needle from the heart of a two-year-old child. The needle had pierced the child’s chest in a fall, and had not only penetrated an inch into the heart, but was actually pulsating under the skin to its action. The child was apparently little the worse for the accident. MARINE WIRELESS. MELBOURNE, December 9. Because the owners have not provided any wireless equipment for the steamer Sphere, which is listed to replace the wrecked Coramba, the seamen refused to supply a crew, and her sailing was abandoned. AID TO MINING. CANBERRA, December 10. Cabinet adopted a plan submitted by Mr. Stewart, involving a Federal subsidy of £403,000 for the encouragement of mining within the Commonwealth. The money will be used for extending the practice of sustenance prospecting, making advances to struggling enterprises with reasonable prospects of success, provision of batteries and other treatment plants where these facilities are not now available, and strengthening the geological and other technical staffs. It is anticipated that 5,500 additional men will be absorbed in the industry. AERIAL MAIL. SYDNEY, December 10. One thousand mail items, from New South Wales, and five thousand from New Zealand, left Sydney last night for Cootamundra, whence the first plane from New South Wales will take off, to-morrow morning. The actual ceremony of the inauguration of the England-Australia air mail service will take place at Brisbane, this morning, when the Duke of Gloucester dispatches two planes from the Archerfield aerodrome. The Controller of Civil Aviation (Captain Johnston) stateci that the extension of the service Zealand was under consideration.