Flashes From Overseas

Northern Advocate, 5 February 1936, Page 5

Flashes From Overseas

WOMAN’S OUTSTANDING SHOOTlNG.—Registering 21 consecutive bull’seyes, Miss F. Fergusson, of Sydney, won the Frank Stuart Match, 10 shots at 300 yards, at the Victorian Rifle Association’s meeting. She tied with

P. Pavey, the 1935 King’s Prize winner, and L. Gibson, but in the shoot-off was eliminated by both. In the next match. 10 shots at 500 yards, Miss Fergusson scored the possible, making 31 bull’s-eyes out of 34 shots. She won another match last Saturday, and on present form has a great chance in the King’s Prize.

FATHER BURNS FAMILY TO DEATH. —While his wife was at a party, Joseph Jost, a Regina farmer, set fire to his home, burning himself and five of his children to death. Only one, Annie, 15 years of age, who slept in the same room with her father, escaped after a battle with her apparently demented parent. She leaped from the window into the snow, running a mile to a neighbour’s place, scantily clad, in a temperature of 30 degrees below zero. Her legs and feet were badly frozen. The other five children in an adjoining room perished in their beds.

AMERICA’S DEFICIT.— A Washington message says that the Federal deficit on February 1, the end of the first seven mpnths of the 1935-36 fiscal year was 2,124,419,000 dollars, compared with a deficit of 1,965,000,000 dollars at the corresponding date in 1935. In spite of the' loss of processing taxes under the Agricultural Administration Act, receipts are substantially higher,' but not enough to compensate for the increased expenditure. The public debt is now 30,516,000,000 dollars.

TAKEN BY SHARK?— David Paton, a schoolboy, aged 14, while bathing at South Steyne Manly, yesterday afternoon is believed to have been taken by a shark. Nobobdy witnessed the incident, but Benjamin Redfern, aged 14, with whom Paton had been bathing, heard what he described as a “swish,” and said that, upon looking in the direction where he had last seen Paton, he discovered that the latter had disappeared. Afterwards the water became blood-stained, leaving little doubt as to the fate of Paton. A beach inspector and several surfers immediately put out in a surf boat and searched for, the missing lad, but without avail.

AIR MAIL DELAYED.— The air mail from Australia, due in London on Monday, will not arrive until Wednesdaty, owing to the weather dislocating the flying boat schedules in the Mediterranean. '

MR HUGHES TO BE RECALLED.— The Prime Minister, Mr J, A. Lyons, has decided to invite Mr W. M. Hughes to rejoin the Federal Cabinet. An announcement on the subject is expected to b'e made by the end of the week, says a Canberra message.

HEAVY SNOWFALLS.— There were heavy falls of snow yesterday over the North of England and the Midlands:, 10 inches being reported from Northumberland and Durham. Far south of North Lincolnshire there have been heavy falls, and farmers fear for their sheep in. the drifts on the wolds.—(B.O.W.)

THE KING’S REPLY.— It was revealed, in the House of Commons, that, after the presentation of Parliament’s Address to His Majesty on January 27, the King, in an extempore addition to his reply, said that the formality of the occasion was somewhat lessened by the presence of so many familiar faces. “You have all served my father under different Governments during his great reign, and the sight of old friends bringing me this address gives me encouragement and confidence for the future.”

BEEF AGREEMENT.— The Australian Associated Press understands that an agreement has been reached regarding Australian and New Zealand beef shipments to Britain until June 30, The Governments concerned will shortly be in a position to announce figures.