AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16227, 29 December 1926, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

FORGOTTEN IN MORGUE LAUNCESTON, Dec. 4 An extraordinary oversight is reported to have occurred at the Devon Hospital, Latrobe. On takiiig the dead body of a patient into the morgue, the body of a man who had died some 10 days .previously, was discovered lying on the slab. Inquiries are being made bv the an tlforities, who are unable to aefouni for the neglect in not having the body buried. ' MORE IMPORTS DESPITE PROTECTION MELBOURNE, Die. 0. Tf the year -23, which was ex(optional, be omil'od, Australian im ports since 1921-22, despite the tariff, have shown a remarkable and steady increase per head of population until they have overtaken and outstripped exports. Tint, in formation is contained in the annual digest of shipping statistics issued by the Commonwealth Statistician. A LUCK V ESCAPE !M YSTERIO US EXPLOSION MELBOURNE, Dec. 10. Four men employed at the Sandringham Council \s quarry at Deer Park yesterday had placed charges in the quarry, and had taken shelter in a galvanised iron building 300 yards away. The shots were fired, and throe minutes after tie.' men left the building there was a terrific explosion. The iron shack was lined bodily fro/n the ground, and pieces of iron ami timber burled for distance up to ISO yards. In the building before the explosion there was a bag containing 31,1 b. of gelignite, l and six detonators. It. is thought that the u plosion was caused by a lighted cigarette. CHURCH ON FIRE PERTH, Dec. 10. Incendiarism is suspected in connection with a fire at St. Alban’s Anglican Church, Gladstone. The large crowd which gathered was unable to save the vestry, vestments, church records, and other articles. Another blaze in the porch of tho adjoining parish lmll was noticed and extinguished. DROWNED IN BLOW-HOLE ' MELBOURNE 6ec. 0. Giles Chippendall was drowned in the bloiv-liole at Hepburn yesterday. It was the last day of his holidays, ami lie was posing on a rock above Die hole for a friend to take his photograph when the rock broke away. lie fell into the turbulent Hood below, and was drowned in the presence of a number of people, none of whom could swim. i ; LA WYERE ’ MISCOND UCT CHARGES. ADELAIDE, Dec. 7. The appointment of a board, consisting of a judge of the Supreme Court, two representatives of the legal profession nominated bv tic!. l Law Society, ami two members W Parliament, with tho Master of the Supreme Court as executive officer, co investigate charges of misconduct, against lawyers, is recommended Inthe Law Reform Commission in its fourth report, which was tabled in Parliament to-dar,