AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16320, 2 January 1924, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BIG- WOOL DEAL

SYDNEY, Dec. 14.—A gathering was hold, marking the completion of the Stale Wool Committee's work under tho Imperial purchase scheme. Tt was stated that the purchase money in the sale of Australian wool was more than £200,000,000. The sale ranked as the biggest of any ono product ever made. At one time there was £7,000,000 worth in Wontworth Park stores, hut evoyy bale was cleared up, A FATAL SMOKE, BATHUBST, Dee. 20.—Alfred Belden (48) succumbed this morning to injuries received at Wimbledon on Saturday, when ho fed asleep with a lighted cigarette in his mouth and did not awaken until lie was shockingly burned about the neck, abdomen, face, arms, and hands. A celluloid collar he was -wearing was burned completely off. Bcldon was ;i railway employee and leaves a widow and iivo young children. aOFT. CLIMB FOR Juki:. MEMORIAL "DECORATED" IN GUY FAWKES BAG. LONDON, Nov. L— Oxford bad its "Guy Fawkos" rag <>n Monday night, when a student named Francis Waldron Giveen decorated the (op of (lie; Martyrs' Memorial. ' The memorial is 80ft. high, and Giveen climbed to the top, and, fastening an Alpinoi rope there, came duun hand over hand.

His friends put up a "smoke barrage" to hide him from view, but this attracted a crowd—and four policemen. Giveen was arrested and, although a yelling mob of undergraduates and townsmen made frequent rushes to the rescue, be was marched off. He. will lui handed over to I lie University authorities.