AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 30 December 1924, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) U intraliau and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, This Day

The New Zealand Boy Scouts quartered in the Petersham Scouts’ Hall arc having a busy time sight-seeing. They wil Jparticipa'tc in the Scout sports at Melbourne on Saturday. ADELAIDE, Dec. 29.

Obituary—Evan R. Stanley, Papuan Government Geologist, wiio took a prominent part in exploring unknown New Guinea territory. - v. ADELAIDE, This Day.

Leonard Cleggett., a farmer residing near Bordertown, was shot dead and his wife, Muriel Cleggett, lias been arrested and charged with his murder. The woman is alleged to have ’told the police that her husband came into the kitchen demanding breakfast. He threw a pie dish which hit her on the head / and then threw her to the floor, .saying he would kill her. She freed herself, ran outside, and snatched a gun which her sons had just brought back from a duck shooting expedition. George Cleggett, aged thirteen, loaded it for her, and when her husband approached she threatened him. He replied, “Do so,”, and she fired, hitting him in tho shoulder. A second shot, hit him in the neck, and he died before the police and a doctor arrived. BRISBANE, Dec. 29. When tho steamer Sussex en route to New Zealand reached- Thursday Island tho master reported and landed a smallpox patient from Singapore and the vessel was quarantined. MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr Kuhn, a resident of Caulfield, returning home early in the evening after a short absence, found a man in his: bedroom. He closed with him and while the struggle was in progress a second man entered from another room, revolver in hand, and fired a shot. The 1 man with whom Kuhn was struggling released his hold and rushed outside. The second man. saying lie had shot his mate, ordered Kuhn to stand still or lie would shoot. He then rushed away and both escaped. Patches of blood oil the floor proved that the first intruder was wounded. The house had been ransacked, hut nothing stolen.