NEWS IN BRIEF.
A BOY DROWNED.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION--COPYRIGHT
MELBOURNE, Nov. 9. Floods are reported over a wide area, there being many wash-aways on the railway. A hoy was drowned at Stuart Mill. The floods are accompanied by cyclonic winds. FIRE IN LINER’S BUNKERS. LONDON., Nov. 8. A fire in the bunkers amidships of the Port Albany at Hull was extinguished after two- days’ strenuous work, the fire brigade assisting. OVERTIME REFUSED. MELBOURNE, Nov. 9. In accordance with the decision not to- supply steam for overtime wmk, donkeymen on the iuter-State steamers ceased work at. noon on Saturday, and will resume at eight o’clock on Monday morning. GRUESOME FIND. LONDON, Nov. 7. Owing to the mystery regarding the whereabouts of her brother, aged 74, the police outwitted an elderly spinster named Campbell. They entered her house at Bournemouth, to which all callers had been prevented from entering, and found the brother’s decomposed body in bed. As he had not called for his old age pension since March, it is believed he died about that time, and that the sister, who is strange in manner, had since guarded the body.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 November 1924, Page 5
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