AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16895, 27 November 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

HAIL KILLS SHEEP. DUNDEE (N.S.W.), Nov. 17.—During the recent heavy hailstorm 210 sheep, the property of Air. W. Chappell, of Grass Vale, were killed. 0000 TONS OF DATES. YEARLY BOAT HERE. SYDNEY, Nov. 15.—The 8.1.5. N. steamer Canara arrived to-day from Busreh, with 2500 tons of dates for discharge. She put ashore 3500 tons at Fremantle, Adelaide and Melbourne. UP TO DATE. MELBOURNE, Nov. 17.—Mr. T. W. White, Nationalist candidalo for Yiaribyrnong, flew over the electorate* this afternoon, distributing electioneering pamphlets. To-day is the anniversary of AH’. White’s capture bv the Turks. lie was then a captain in the Air Force in Mesopotamia. TWO DROWNED. EVIDENCE SHOWS ACCIDENT. KATOOMBA, Nov. 35.—At the Coroner’s inquest to-day concerning the drowning of the two infant children Patrick and Tessie Tierney in a wash tub on Wednesday, the evidence pointed to the children meeting their deaths through accident. There were no marks of violence on the bodies and no suspicious circumstances. VOTED AT 110. THOSE GROWING PAINS. MELBOURNE, Nov. 14.—Claiming that ho was the oldest voter in the world, James Warklcy, aged 110, registered his vote at. Montague today. He is a pioneer of the Trades Union movement and is a member of the Operative Bakers’ Union. Ilis only complaint to-day was that those growing pains still troubled him.” ENGINEERS SCALDED. ACCIDENT AT SEA. SYDNEY, Nov. 17.— When a steam pipe burst in the engine-room of the steamor Arafura during lmr voyage from Melbourne to Sydney, two engineers were badly burnt. Bathurst Noel, aged 27, of Hamilton road, Fairfield, second enginear, and Maurice Corrigan, aged 24, of Birriga road, Bellevue Hill, third engineer, were working near the pipe, and they were coveted in steam and boiling water beforo they could inovo. MONEY FOR BRIBE. CANNOT BE RECOVERED. MELBOURNE,. Nov. 14.—The Chief Justice) (Sir William Irvine) to-day gave judgment for defendants in the action in which Terence Callaghan, owner and licensee of the Londonderry Hotel, Collingwood, claimed £IOOO front Leo O’Sullivan and other dotectivos who were sentenced to imprisonment for conspiracy. "It has been decided that if a man pays money by way of a bribe ho cannot recover it, because both plaintiff and defendant are equally criminal,” said the Chief Justice. STEAMER ARRESTED. I CLAIM: FOR £2OO. STORM SHIFTS CARGO. MELBOURNE, Nov. 14.—A Japanese steamer, the Fuji Maru, has been arrested at. Geelong, ns a result of writs issued in the High Court by Otto Rourko and R. B. MeComas, timber merchants, for alleged damaged cargo. The claim is for £2OO. The Fuji Maru recently arrived in Melbourne with a full shipment of Californian pine. She encountered rough, weather, which caused her cargo to shift. The steamer had a list of 45 degrees. FIREBUGS. ATTEM.P THAT FAILED. KEROSENE OVER FLOOR. CAIRNS, Nov. 17.—" What appears to be deliberate incendiarism was attempted at. the Cairns Harbor Board offices on Sunday. , Early in the morning the timekeeper entering the offices, found that the main office and engineer’s oflice had* been broken into and the. floors saturated with kerosene. Matches which had been lighted wore found strewn over the floor, The handle was wrenched off the door of the engineer’s office, and the muddy footprints of two men found about the verandah, one in sandshoes, the other in leather-soled boots or slioes*. An empty kerosene bottle was found outside. The police are investigating. MARRIED AT 1.30 A.Af. LASS LOVED THE SAILOR. HIS SHIP WAS LATE. MELBOURNE, Soy. 17.—N0 obstacle is too great for a sailor when he wants to get married. Albert Portwood, a steward, of the a.s.. Wyroeffia, was to have married Miss Florrie Greene at 7 o’clock last night. His boat did not arrive until midnight, and ho went straight to Hawthorn and was married at 1.30 this morning at the residence of the girl’s friends at 26 Falmouth street. Tim party which was to have succeeded the wedding was rot postponed. Thirty or, forty guests look part in it five hours before the wedding. After the wedding ceremony the party went to the, Glen Studio, GJeuferrie, whore a photograph of the party was taken by artificial light at 2.15* a.m. The bridegroom lias to rejoin his ship at 6 a.m. to morrow. ENCHANTED JURY. FIDDLER IN DOCK. .MUSIC HATH CHARMS. SYDNEY, Nov. 14.—When the ability of Cyril John Briggs, a young street musician, was raised at the Daylinghurst Sessions to-day, ho askod permission of the judge to play to the jury. He was charged with breaking and entering. His instrument, supposed to bo a fiddle, was made of two pieces of board, with the top of a shaving soap tin as ?i midge. It was handed to him in the dock. ..But the bridge did not fit properly, sc* Briggs replaced it with a sixpenny piece, Hint lie borrowed from a police officer. lii a moment or tw*o enchanting music floated through the Court. Briggs had hardly put dowu his fiddle when the jury gave a verdict of not guilty, and Briggs was discharged.