AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
FOUR WOMEN DROWNED.
MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—
Brisbane, December 15. Four women, viz., Mrs. Henderson and two daughters and Mrs. Willcox, while bathing in the Albert River, at Tambourine, yesterday, were drowned.
Nobody 'saw the occurrence, but a passer-by found four lots of women's clothes on the bank. It is surmised that one got into difficulties, and the others went to her rescue.
RELIEF FOR MACOUARIES. v Hoiurt. December 15. The schooner Rachel Cohen has arrived here from the Mncquaries. On the day of her departure, the Aurora arrived and took off the party left by Dr. Mawson. SOUTH MELBOURNE BLAZE.
MKinoniVE, December 15.
A fire caused damage to the extent of £10,000 to the premises occupied by Messrs. Brookes. Robinson, and Co., glass merchants, in South Melbourne, yesterday. The roof of Scritt and Son's cool stores took fire, but the contents of the building were not harmed. The caretaker's cottage was destroyed, the occupants escaping in their night attire, by climbing on a shed and thence over a brick wall.
SMALLPOX .IN SYDNEY. Sydney, December 15. There were two cases of smallpox in the metropolitan area during the week end. TRADING STEAMER LOST. - Sydney, December 15. r The Island trading steamer Muniara (837 ■■;• ' tons), owned by Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Company, has been wrecked at Ebon Island, in the Marshall Group. The crew, ' was saved,. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15484, 16 December 1913, Page 7
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