AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15250, 13 March 1913, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CHINESE CONSUL FIRED AT. DISMISSED SECRETARY ARRESTED. Meijßotjbnb, March 12. AN. accomplished (Chinese, ,30 years^ol..*' age, named Thomas Jones Chia, has been 5 arrested on a charge of unlawfully wounding, with intent to murder Hung Liang Hwang, Chinese Consul-General. - Chia, who lately became, prominent through his marriage with a well-known;. . Australian girl, called on Hwang, and is alleged, after a long argument regarding his private affairs, to have fired two revolver [ shots without result. / He Sired '■'' ■ a third as Hwang grappled with 4 him, the bullet passing through Hwang's upper arm and shoulder. The wound is not serious. The Chinese Government, in September, on, the recommendation of the Consul, terminated Chia's engagement as secretary • .." of the Consulate. . Chia has since been; acting as manager of the Eastern Trading Company. He has held a number of important positions, including the head* mastership of the Prefectual Training College in Changchow, a professorship of English in the Pekin University, and ; the chief secretaryship to Tong, Chinese Consul-General from 1910 to 1912. LATIN AMERICA'S FUTURE. :, Fremantue, March 12. Mr. Milne, a British Board of Trad* representative in Australia, arrived here to-day. He recently visited the States of Latin America, and was greatly impressed by the potentialities of that fecund -, area, which, in the next 30 years, would startle the world with its richness of production. He had come to Australia to sit down and learn. In the nea» future, he said, Australia would be employing Trade Commissions instead' of sub-, agents. He had decided to open. an agency in Sydney. ■-'.'..- ■'..;• ' : '

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