AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Grey River Argus, 27 May 1935, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(Aus. anu N.Z. Cable Assn.) ADELAIDE, May 25. There is a deep regret throughout Australia at the untimely death of Professor Shann, whom the actingprime Minister described as one of the clearest thinkers and best informed minds in Australia. He fell from a window of the University, fracturing' his skull. The opinion is expressed that his health was run down and he recently I complained of overwork. The police intimated that there would be no need for an inquest into his death which followed a fall from a window at the University. MELBOURNE, May 25. The father of the famous eighteen vear-old violinst, Yehudi Menuhin, has refused an offer of 500.000 dollars from a leading film corporation for his son’s appearance in a Hollywood film, the scenario of which was submitted to him before he left America on his Australian tour.

Mr. Menuhin in the course of hi* reply said that he could not allow his son to cheapen his art. “There is an abyss between Yehudi’s genius :»nd the very commercial talent that [serves Hollvwood,” he declared. PERTTT, May 25.

The death is announced of the Rt. Rev. Dr. China, Archbishop of Perth. Dr. Clune was born on January h*li, 1864, at Ronan, Coujnty Clare, Ireland, lie was educated at. St. Flannan’s College, Ennis, and All Hallow’s College. Dublin. He was ordained in 1886 and joined the Rcdomptorist Congregation in 1893, professed a<‘. Bishop Eton in 1894] wan a missionor in Ire’and ana returned to Australia in 1899.

Dr. Clune was Superior of the Redcniptorist Houses in Wellington, New Zealand] ami Perth, Western Australia. He became the first Archbishop of Penth on the raising of the See to metropolitan rank in 1913. BRISBANE,, May 25. The Premier (Mr AV. Forgan Smith') ■turned the first sod for the Jubilee Bridge over the Brisbane River at Kangaroo Point. The work will cost £1.154,000 and occupy four years*. T‘ will ho the second largest bridge in Australia.