AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22136, 14 December 1933, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

THE KERANG RIVER FALLING. FLOOD DANGER PASSED. MELBOURNE, December 13. 'The flood danger at Kerang is believed to have passed, as the river is falling after breaking through the embankment, flooding many properties. PROHIBITED IMMIGRANTS. MASTER OF SHIP PINED. MELBOURNE, December 13. The master of the Finnish ship Olvsborg (Captain Biscop) was fined £2OO for having been the master of a vessel from which prohibited immigrants were landed. \ PROSPECTOR FOUND DEAD. LOST HIS WAY IN THE BUSH. PERTH, December 13. An old prospector named Thomas Kingston left Cue a week ago to look for gold in an abandoned mine. He lost his way in the bush, and was found dead 12 miles from Cue. He had divested himself of his clothing during his final wanderings, and apparently died of thirst. A COUNCIL DISSOLVED. UNPRECEDENTED ACTION. SYDNEY, December 13, (Received Dee. 13, at 11.30 p.m.) Sudden and unprecedented action was taken by the Government to-day when it dissolved the Bankstown Municipal Council and appointed an administrator until a fresh election is held. The Government acted on an adverse official report which is alleged to reveal irregularities in the tenders for a sahitary contract.

MISTAKEN IDENTITY. SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE CASE. SYDNEY, December 13. (Received Doe. 14, at 1.30 a.m.) In probate jurisdiction the Acting Chief Justice, Sir John Harvey, granted Pierce Lehane leave to swear to the death of his brother, William Lehane, who committed suicide from the harbour bridge on September 24, 1932. Owing to mistaken identity, the victim was buried as George Williams, a New Zealander. > Mr Justice Harvey declared that ihe coroner’s inquiry was most perfunctory, while the police had accepted the evidence of identification of the bridge victim without the slightest investigation., William Lehane, who is now legally presumed to be dead, was possessed of considerable means, and probate in the estate was granted to his brother, Pierce Lehane.