AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22709, 23 October 1935, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

VICTIMS OF CAR TRAGEDY THE BODIES RECOVERED (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ' ADELAIDE, October 22. The bodies of all the six victims of the car tragedy at Quovn have now been recovered. A motor car containing six people was overwhelmed by flood water in a creek near Quorn and was overturned. They were: Harry Crocombe, his daughters (Gertrude, aged 24, and Clarice, aged 27), Harry Crocombe (twin of Gertrude), Miss Stove and Miss Davis. Three bodies, which are believed to be those of Gertrude, Clarice and Harry Crocombe, jun., were recovered. The car was crossing a creek bed, which is usually dry, when a wall of water 3ft high swept down and carried the car downstream. A DOUBLE TRAGEDY SYDNEY, October 21. The body of Mrs Daisy James (28), mother of five children, who lived in the coalfields district of Kurri Kurd, was found in an isolated spot two miles from the local hospital to-day. A handkerchief was tied tightly round her neck. She escaped from the hospital last Friday by leaping from a balcony, since when her husband and a number of his-fellow-miners have been searching for her. After the discovery of the body the grief-stricken husband went home and shot himself dead. RACE TO SEE SICK WIFE SYDNEY, October 22. The Marama, which arrived this morning from Auckland, was speeded up to assist a passenger to reach the bedside of his sick wife in Melbourne. The man rushed from the wharf to Mascot aerodrome in time to catch the mail plane for Melbourne. RAIN IN NEW SOUTH WALES SYDNEY, October 22. (Received Oct. 22, at 10 p.m.) Following a long dry period the whote of New South Wales is now drenched by incessant min, which began during the week-end and is continuing. Southern areas report local floodings. Pastoral areas in the far west have even had a substantial rainfall, which has completely changed seaso.ial prospects. Large areas are uni'er water at Dubbo and Wellington. The :ivers Murray, MuiTiimbidgee, and Lachlan are overflowing, and wheat crops and orchards have been severely damaged. SYDNEY'S LORD MAYOR SYDNEY, October 22. (Received Oct. 23, at 1 a.m.) Alderman Arthur M'Elhone was today unanimously elected Lord Mayor of Sydney for the remainder of 1935, in succession to the late Sir Alfred Parker, whose death occurred-last Friday. ESTIMATE OF WHEAT CROP SYDNEY, October 22. (Received Oct. 23, at 1 a.m.) A preliminary forecast of the forthcoming wheat harvest in New South Wales is 41,000,000 bushels. SEARCH FOR AIR LINER MELBOURNE, October 22. (Received Oct. 23, at 1 a.m.) The search for the wreckage of the air liner Loina, near Flinders Island, has been suspended because of the impossibility of dragging through masses of kelp on the scabottom at the scene of the disaster. Dragging operations will be resumed when the strong currents shift the kelp.