IN THE COMMONWEALTH

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 22 September 1914, Page 5

IN THE COMMONWEALTH

A DOCTOR'S SACRIFICE

STOCKS DECIDEDLY FIRM,

SYDNEY, Sep. 21.

Details of DrPockley's death at Herbertshohe disclose that he sacrificed his life for. a wounded companion. As a member of the medical corps he accompanied the landing party. When the first encounter occurred he was attending a wounded sailor. Finding it necessary to send him to the rear he called a sailor and ordered him to carry his mate, to a safer position. To protect this man he took off his. Red Cross coat and wrapped it around him. The doctor, when attending another wounded man," sustained a fifcal revoL ver shot in the chest, allegedly fired by a German officer.

SYDNEY, Sep. 21

The Adelaide Stock Exchange has re-opened. Business to-day was light.

Though prices of investment stocks are about 10 per cent, and mining about 15 per cent, below the rates ruling when the Exchange., closed on August 1, they are decidedly firmer than was anticipated, and have showed a marked recovery from the lowest unofficial figures reached during the suspension. '