AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16091, 3 April 1923, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

; MELBOURNE, ; March,2I.' , News has reached 1 Melbourne" .af the death from pneumonia .at Bombay, of Raymond! Grace, the former,. Australian jockey, who recently had) been riding with success in the East. <,

A meeting was held' all, the Town Hall to jiecidie on the best method of raising-' £3OOO to send) some Australian Boy Scouts to London next year for the Empire Exhibition. ... r A report ilmt burglars werje..broaliing' into .tha Royal Bank, in ChUms,.Street brought two- carloads of po»li6e* to; the building this morning. The alarm bell was ringing, andl two men, were .said!, to have been seen runping'over,iJiekjvoof,but tho police found no sign'of iiftfempt-, cd, burglary. . ' A,'; ,Two cars were, wrecked in a head-on smash at a “hair-pin” Lendl.about a mile - from the Waterfall Sanatorium, on tho Buili road. The occupants : of both caVs-“ had'miraculous escapes. " A '”'" The claim for. £IO,OOO, in l'espect Of alleged libel, by Emanuel Meyerson, property owner,.,, Sydney, from Smithy. - Weekly Publishing Co., Ltd., has'outer- - cd upon its 22nd day of hearing,The costs in, the case are now about £BOO, and before the case ends will I reach‘y £lo,ojC| t —the amount'claimed by Myerson.. The. further hearing was adjourhcd'. ' '■ * '* ,

A cat was responsible for the' destruction by fire of George Avery’s homo at the French’s Forest soldiers’ settlement. Avery returned- home about |,0.30 p.m. with a parcel of fish. Ho putc'it oh the table, lighted a lamp, and left the*-, room. .-.Whilst he, was awity the. cat reached tjp to get the- fish, and';upset,tho lamp, V’ith tho result, that Avery returncd to find, the place in..flames.. i, ... MURWILLUMBAH, March*2l. The! rail, motor which connects with tho through train from'LismofC, bringing. passengers on to Murwillumbab, collided with a cow, and was derailed. The train travelled 10 yards before coming to a standstill. Another ,18in., and is ivould have dived, over a sft embankment. •v. - - ‘ ■. v*ADELONG (N.S.W.), March 21. A young dairyman named’ Victor Passlow attempted to open a gate whilst riding a* flighty horse. The- animal plunged) forward, and the latch of the gate drove right iuto the map’s leg and tore out, the sinews and. muscles’,'of tho'. leg,. I^asslow,had)"to ride unaccompanied seven miles to the nearest, house, and later was taken another ten miles. :' MELBOURNE, March 21. A “man” cook in a. well-known board* ing-liou’so was discharged 1 the. other diav because hci refused' to share-a ‘rooth with a newly-engaged handy man. Now. it" has. been discovered: that-dbe coplc really a. young woman, who has been masquerading as a man for a long jtim<*J She is said to have served, for some- time ns a.steward! on a. vessel. While at.tho boarding-house sho.regplndW syentopt ati. night, witlv.a girl whohi “lm’ v was cdl to bo.‘engaged.. - '.(> *' .’" ' ■ LTTHGQW;(N';S.iy.);.M‘ai f 6h 21.’ To have tho . .wheel, of a,,locomotive • stop bn; liis neck ' and yet escape* Witlf'* only minor injuries was tho experience-of Mr.- John Sewell, an employee of Ahe Lithgow ironworks.- Mr. Sewell wets standing on one set- of rails, when.-ho jumped to escape an oncoming engine. -Ho landed on. another line -on \Which 'a. further, locomotive was travelling. -to-“ wards him. . He was knooeked down, but' tho driver saw tho incident and applied tho brakes,. When discovered,. Mg. Sewell’s, foot- was jammed* in' a • /ivhogl ~ iandi crushed, whilst tlie bogie' vtiieel'of tho ehgine.was touching big neqkT BRISBANE;* March .21. The plight bf the' small vcattle-gi'owtr Was indicated in a letter read at Ja.:m6et-Y ing of « the Queensland) Cattle-growers’ Association. It .ran A W . “I am very, sorry that I ain ,unable to send ihy eptranpe feo,.; L ean get oiily the barest necessities.of life.) Tho cattle age falling away , very fast.;, You have: no idea how things arei here, especially among the* selectors, t)ne selector’s wife* haV already gone away and taken a job cooking, and* others are talking of going, . ;is .they cannot get. decent tucker, let alone clothes. It is impossible to sell ■ I he- selections), as they are too small. Each of us is waiting to* get put_ at any price.” Good rains have fallen since tho letter was written. - ' ,