AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
ABORIGINAL VENGEANCE.
POMPEY SLAYS CAESAR:
Australian and N.Z. Cabin Association. (Reed. 11.35 p.m.) ' .-BRISBANE. *Nov 21. '; The police ~ have; received news of /£ a tribal tragedy at Long Pocket. An aboriginal, ' named : Julius Caesar, 'was fatally tomahawked by another ' native, named Pompey. It is asserted; that the reason for the crime was that ' Caesar bid murdered . Ponipey's father , some years ago. : "'.'":':';:;:-:"/•;■.; £X- ■ V'V:.''v,-' ■[:';'/.
UATIOITAL IKSTJIUiNOS SCHEME. ," SYDNEY. Nov. 21. \ The National Insurance Royal Commission appointed by the Federal Government :; has ' commenced its sittings in Sydney. The scheme to be investigated would embrace 1,600,000 wage earners. v;
W. AUSTRALIAN WHEAT YIELD. ',/ -""'■/.'': ;"'.: 'PERTH, Nov.; 21. ;An official estimate of Western Australia's wheat' production for the 1925-24 season is 19,294,000 bushels, an average of 11.7 an acre, the highest since the 191314 season. ,;/. ■ rt . J. M. GREGORY ON .j SICK LIST. u v.; : :,, ' : . SYDNEY, Nov. 21. Mi -i J. M. Gregory, the cricketer, has undergone an operation for an injured knee. The operation is not serious, and it is expected that he will be playing again within a month. " ' f_ -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18563, 22 November 1923, Page 9
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