AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20708, 4 May 1929, Page 13

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

THE BAST COLAC MURDER. HANDICAPPER ARRESTED. (United Press (By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright.) MELBOURNE, May a. The police at Colac have arrested Arthur Wylie, aged 62, on a charge of wilful murder of James Christensen, whose body was found in a boxthom hedge at East Colac. Wylie is handicapper for the western district trotting clubs. - . . 6 The dead body of James Christensen, aged 65, unmarried, was descivered in a boxthom hedge at East Colne on April 17, Christensen's head was badly battered. The victim, possessed over £3O before his death, 'and the money was all gone when the body was discovered. Detectives found bloodstained fingerprints <Jn a fence'nearby. TOLL OF . THE MOTOR. NEW SOUTH WALES FIGURES, SYDNEY, May 8. \ The Police Department for 1928 show that, 332 persons were killed as the result of motor car accidents in the State. The injured totalled 7124. This is a heavy increase over the previous year, and the figures for the first three months of 1929 indicate that a deplorable record is developing. . A CONSTABLE’S BRUTALITY. THREE-ABORIGINALS THRASHED. SYDNEY, May 3. A Darwin message states that an extraordinarily brutal assault on handcuffed aboriginal prisoners by a constable was revealed in the court, when' Tommy Moyle,: an aboriginal, was charged with the murder of a native , woman. It was revealed that the constable, upon getting three handcuffed prisoners to the police station, gave them V thrashing with a waddy. He then questioned them about-the tragedy. The Crown Prosecutor immediately withdrew the case for the Crown, andthe jury returned a verdict of not guilty - without leaving the bos. . * ■ MARINE COOKS AND BUTCHERS. THE UNION RE-REGISTERED. , MELBOURNE,. May 8. (Received May 8, at 11 p,m.) Mr Justice Dethtidge to-day re-regis-torcd tbc Marine Cooks and Butchers’ Union, which was deregistered last May during' the currency ot the strike. It was stated that the men were working harmoniously with the employers.- There was no opposition to the application. DISTRESSED COAL AREAS/ DONATION FROM DOMINION. a ~ SYDNEY, May 3. (Received May 3, at 10 p.m.) The New Zealand Alliance of Labour has cabled £250. to the northern , coal miners for relief expenditure. NEW SOUTH WALES TREASURY. HEAVY INTEREST BILL, ' ' • , SYDNEY, May 3 (Received May 8, .at 10 p.m.) . The Treasurer (Mr, Stevens) sin nounces that the State'Government’s in- r terest bill now amounts to £1,000.00(1 per month. ? .