COMMONWEALTH NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 September 1928, Page 9

COMMONWEALTH NEWS.

CENSURE MOTION DEFEATED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.; (Australian Press Association.) Received 11.40 a,m, The censure motion in this State Assembly was defeated hy 42 to 38. NEW G UINEA BILL DEFERRED. CANBERRA, Sept. 21. Tlie Federal Government has deferred the New' Guinea, Bill, which was designed ito create an executive council and a legislative council. There was considerable opposition to the measure. The Government is awaiting representations from New Guinea. AUSTRALIAN CRICKET MATTERS. Received noon. SYDNEY, Sept, 21. The Australian Board of Cricket Control decided that there shall be four on the selection committee for the forthcoming tests against England. Ino names have not vet 'been chosen. It also decided to' mvite thq West Indies' and South African teams to visit Australia between 1929 and 1932. FATHER. AND DAUGHTER SHOT. f SYDNEY, Sept. 20. | Harry Duel!, aged 75, and his daugb- | ter Alice, aged 35, were found shot today at their home near Re nail a, teubisequemtly the body of W illiam Shmnick was found in the nearby lulls. . A passer-by noticed someone making signs from tlie Duel! bouse. He found Duell with one hand blown off and other serious injuries, and the daughter with two shot wounds. Both were taken to hospital in a serious condition. Mere the police obtained their versions ox tlie found Shinnick’s body with a l , rifle alongside. Duell informed _ lus rescuer that Shinnick did the shooting. It is understood the latter had been nayincr attention to Miss Duell and the re Trad been f requent quarrels. TRAGIC MOTOR. SMASH. SYDNEY, Sept. 20. Two men, Edwin Kell, aged 18, and Robert Edward Gray, aged 25, _ were killed' and three others wej-e injured, one having his arm severed, when a, ear containing nine men returning fromi a football banquet crashed into a telegraph pole a,t Redfern. . - Later Hamilton Valda McLerie. th« driver of the car. was arrested and charged with feloniously slaying _ the men and with driving while, intoxicated. He was ‘remanded'.