AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Grey River Argus, 21 June 1927, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

N.S.W. POLITICS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) SYDNEY, June 20. The Executive Council has further prorogued Parliament until the 12th of July. AUSTRALIAN MURDER. SYDNEY. June 20. The Commissioner of Police has received advice from Bathurst to the effect that McPherson, arrested in connection with the death of Martha Quin, has made a full confession. WIRELESS FOR LIGHTHOUSES. (Received Juno 20 at 7.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, Juno 20. Mr Fisk, Managing Director of the Amalgamated Wireless, giving evidence before the Wireless Commission, the equipment of lighthouses with wireless apparatus, capable of sending signals for a radius of twentyfive miles. He added that if the Gabo Lighthouse had been equipped with such apparatus, and the steamer Riverina had a suitable receiver, that vessel would not have been lost. Giving evidence to the Royal Com mission on Wireless, Mr Fisk, refer ring to the research department of Amalgamated Wireless, said the stat! was working upon an entirely new method of transmission, which might be useful for war purposes. Mr Fisk claimed that the Department had been in touch with many loaders of radio research in the world, and said that although they were doing this work for the benefit of the public and the commercial service, in the event of war, they would have an organisation which could hold its own with any other country in the world. It would be the only through wireless organisation in the Pacific. Ocean. Owing to vandalism. practised in the past by certain individuals, the State Government issued a proclanin’ tion protecting for a year certain wild flowers and native plants. The step is taken to prevent the absolute extermination of many of the best native I flowers. The auxiliary schooner Louis Theriault. bound from Whangape to Sydnev, was sighted about a hundred miles off Seal Rocks. She reported a broken tail shaft. She was bound to Svdnev. MELBOURNE, Juno 20. A cyclone caused tremendous damage wiien it swept, the Bungaree district near Ballarat. The cyclone was two to throe hundred yards wide, and ’ wrecked all before it. There were many narrow escapes, but only one person was injured. A whirlwind struck Barbery’s sawmills at Warburton, lifting the whole roof and beams, weigh’nj eight tons, and depositing them fiftv yards away. An employee was .-eriou.dv injured. The electric. light power station, which supplies the township, was badIv damaged.