AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16869, 26 October 1925, Page 13

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

GLADYS MONCRIEFF.

LEAVING J.C.W. SOON.

MELBOURNE, Oct. 9—Gladys Moncrieff will terminate her engagement with J. C. Williamson, Ltd., at the end of the year. Her farewell will be in Mel* bourne. She will open her last season on October 24 in “The Street Singer,” in which she is now playing in Perth, and at the end of the run will come to Melbourne.

THE GIRL AND THE PEARLS.

KICKED INTO GUTTER

MELBOURNE, Oet. 9.—Simply because she did not like to see a pretty thing trampled underfoot, NaPcy Jelbart, a schoolgirl, of Cohuna, picked up a necklace which had been kicked contemptuously off the footpath in Swanston Street by a tram-conductor.

She displayed it to the girls at school, hut nobody realised its value until ono day she casually showed it to a jeweller.

“These are pearls,’’ he said, “They’re worth at least- £2oo.’’ Old newspapers were searched, and the owner was traced. The girl has now received £ls reward from the insurance company that had insured the necklace. 1

SURF RESCUE. GIRL CAUGHT IN UNDERTOW. BRISBANE, Oct. 9.—Two young women, Misses S. Murdoch and K. Wecker, were bathing hand in hand some distance from the shore at Southport beach yesterday, when suddenly they were parted by a strong wave. Wecker was carried in towards the shore, but Murdoch, apparently dazed by the force of the wave, was caught in the undertow and swept out. Wecker attracted the attention of a local resident, who was the only person in the. water at the time, and who was about 50 yards away. He swam out to Murdoch, who was almost completely exhausted when he reached her. After a strenuous fight lie brought her to shallow water. They were both then in a state of collapse, but recovered.

GIRL OF 15 ELO'PFS. TROOPERS SEARCHING. ROCKHAMPTON, October 9.—From Mount Morgan comes the story of a young runaway couple lost in the mountains.

The yountr man aPd girl—she is only 15 years old—planned to get away to Tasmania, hut the breakdown of their, buggy left them stranded amid the lonely crags of the wild Mt. Morgan region. No hint of their scheme had been given when tho couple arranged to go to the Mount Morgan pictures with the girl's grandmother. The young man told the grandmother to go inside and hold a couple of seats, as lie and the girl were going up the street for a walk. ’Hie old lady was left in the theatre and the couple- failed to turn up. Returning home at 11 p.m. she was horrified: to find the girl’s room in disorder and most of her clothing gone.

OP. the. mirror was pinned the following hastily.written message.: “Dear mother, I am going away with Sid to Tasmania.” All the trains leaving were watched, but without success. Then the report gained currency that they had secured the services of a friend with a buggey going in the direction of Moonmera. about ten miles from Mount Morgan. But tho buggey broke dow’n near Mt. Usher, and the man and girl proceeded along the road on foot. The couple are now in the mountains somewhere, and eight mounted troopers are out searching for them.