AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 August 1924, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

• SERIOUS FIRE. BY CABLE PR OSS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received Aug. 18, 10.45 a.m. v • SYDNEY, Aug. 18. A disastrous nre almost completely destroyed a block on one of the most central corners of Warwick. The buildlng was the property of the Commercial Hanking Company, and the three shops and hank wero gutted. The damage is estimated at £‘30,000. CREW FOR FORDSDALE. .. SYDNEY, Aug. 18. The* h ordsdale signed on a- new crew without hitch, and jailed for England. NOT WORTH REPAIR. ADELAIDE, Aug. 18. Owing to the heavy expenditure necessary for repair in Australia of the steamer City of .Singapore, the owners decided to abandon the vessel. MURDER OF GIRL. MELBOURNE, Aug. 18. The police have developed a new the.orv in the Tuckerinan murder. They slate that developments may show that it was not a sex crime, hut was the outcome ol rage, and that the girl was throttled in an outburst of ungovernable anger. The theory, however, is nf present little more than suspicion. SHIPPING. Received Aug. 18. 11.5 a.m. NEWCASTLE, Aug. 18. Sailed.—Waihemo and Inga for New Zealand.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CHEAPER CABLE RATES. SYDNEY. Aug. 15. With reference to cable rates, portion of the proposed reduction is represented by the Government abandoning a proportion of the terminal charge of 5d per word upon private messages, not 5d per hundred words for press messages, as previously cabled.