GENERAL CABLE.
INCREASE IN SYDNEY TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS. United Tress Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Tress Association.) SYDNEY, Dec. 31. Traffic accidents in the Sydney metropolitan area show a 20 per cent, increase for the 11 months of this year, compared with the whole of last year, the total number of killed and injured] being 6353, of which 192 were killed. ELEPHANT’S VALUABLE MEAL. ADELAIDE. Dec. 31. A woman at the zoo held her handbag containing £ll near the elephant, which seized it in. its trunk. In a trice the hag was conveyed to the capacious mouth, masticated and swallowed. ALLEGED FRAUD. NEW YORK, Dec. 29. Mrs Theodore, Alvarez, an Australian, who said she was the wife of an Argentine millionaire, was ax-rested in an exclusive hotel and charged with grand larceny for presenting a worthies? cheque for £22o.at a clothing shop. The woman is said to have served a term in Canada on a similar charge!
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10783, 2 January 1929, Page 5
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157GENERAL CABLE. Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10783, 2 January 1929, Page 5
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