AUSTRALIAN NEWS. TRAIN FIRED UPON.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 8 April 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. TRAIN FIRED UPON.

IPBKSS AIBOCIATION.I SYDNEY, April 7. While the fsouthwn mail was travelling'in. ti.e -v£ciri>ty irf' Tliir^jaac-i-e, -two raiHsiles, auppc-eed to bo riflo bullets, smuslted a. window Two passengers narrowly e&i'apcd. One was slightly cut. The bullets splintered tho glass. A search failed to disclose sny clue as to the pea polluter. BROKEN iHILL. j SYDNEY, April 7. The BitkmHill returns for thd past quarter shew a doorea^o to tho value of £120,000 compared" with tht corre-. spending period of last year. The outpub of mttek, Lowcver, was eivcu batter. Tho reduced value was due to the ; fall mi the .price of. metals. OLD WRECK DISCOVERED. HOBART, April 7. A prospector discovered on the west coast the remains of a large iron ship. It had evidently lain there for a long time, as the plates were in an advanced stage of corrosion-, nothing whereby it could be identified remaining.

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