AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS. BT ELECTRIC TELSGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received November 29, 9.25 a.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 29. In the Legislative Assembly the Height of Buildings Bill was read a third time. It enacts that the City Council shall control buildings up to 100 ft. in height'but over that the 'Fire Brigade Commissioners must report to the Chief Secretary. NORTH MOUNT LYELL FIRE. Received November 29, 9.25 a.m. HOBART, Nov. 29. The Royal Commission set up to inquire into the North Mount Lyell fire was opened and adjourned until December 12. DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED. Received November 29, 9.25 a.m. ! SYDNEY, Nov. 29. The sentence of death passed on Theodose has been commuted.
A young man named Theodose was in October sentenced to death at Grafton for the murder of Hoey, a hawker, on July 22 last. The prisoner made a statement that he was getting a rifle oat of Hoey's tent in the darkness when the weapon went off, shooting Hoey. He was seared by t'he accident, and fled.
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Mataura Ensign, 29 November 1912, Page 5
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171AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Mataura Ensign, 29 November 1912, Page 5
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