AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 13 December 1928, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FRISOjnER’S AMAZING ESCAPE. SYDNEY, December 12. News was received in Sydney that John Brendon Parker, whuj effected an amazing escape fflom D ai'i ipg Wurst Police Station, lock-up last August, and escaped to Fraud v has prolonged .iis stay there, by refusing to admit his identity. SENATE ELECTION. BRISBANE, December 12. The first vacancy fur the Queensland Senate election went to Mr Crawford (Nationalist), whu had an absolute * majority. It is Dow certain that Lis three colleagues will also be elected, MURDER MYSTERY. PERTH, December 12. The starting of William O’Brien, aged 32, at midnight on December 3, at an hostel at Kondini, remains a mystery. The . dead man s partner, who was sleeping in the next room, and who said he quarn Bed with O Brien, was discharged- l’\fty shut gun pellets and a cartridge wad were extracted from O ’BrP. n’s head. EIGHTY SHARKS CAPTURED. NEWCASTLE, December 12. Eighty sharks, of varying sizes to fourteen feet, were landed by thc Marine Industries Limited. They rt> presented a week’s netting off the coast. Th: struggling monsters tore gaping holes in the nets, and attacked one an'other during the landing operations. On e strange shark had eyes beneath the lower jaw and fins above the head. SWEPT BY FIRE THREE TIMES. SYDNEY, December IL A large fire has broke out at Aberdeen House, Clarence Street, City, a (five-storeyed warehouse. It was crammed with valuable merchandise, i

The fire caused damage exceeding £30.000. Two Hours were destroyed, and four others damaged by smoke and water. Several firemen, trapped by thc flames, narrowly escaped, and fifteen firms suffered loss. The build ing has three times previously been swept by fire. MURDER AND SUICIDE. SYDNEY, IX. cumber 12. The Coroner found that Mrs Birch waft murdered by her busband, Henry, and that the latter bud Committed suicide. The evidence given was that the husband was violent temper'd and jealous. WOMAN REFUSES TO GIVE EVIDENCE. SYDNEY, December 12. The police dropped the prosecution against Simpson and Webb, the woman concerned having refused to give evidence.