AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16492, 9 November 1927, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SOLICITOR MISSING: ABOUT £20,W0 INVOLVED SYDNEY, Oct. 24. The police have been informed that i a, solicitor has bpen missing for several days and that the sum of about £20,000 is involved. it, is understood that he has left Australia. BANK. TELL Kit FOR TRIAL SYDNEY', Oct, 21. .John Kenneth Rulgway, SO, a. bank teller, was to-day charged at the central police court with having embezzled ±1596, the property of the Union Bank of Australia, and was committed for trial. it was alleged that' the total deficiency reached £41)00. BULLOCK TEAM COULD NOT SHIFT TUG. URANGA, (N.S.W.) OH, 21. After many vain attempts to get the fug Volunteer off the sand spit near the entrance to the Bellinger river at Uranga, where it went aground last Wednesday the boat, was .still there yesterday afternoon. A team of bullocks was requisitioned by officers of the Navigation Department, but they failed to shift the tug. ALLEGED ELAN DKJt BERTH, (W.A.), Oct. 27. Acting on instructions from Stanley Norman Wright, oil Tara Beach road, Coogee, N.S.W., chairman of directors of Temple Court, Ferth, Messrs. A. G. Haynes and Co., have issued a writ for £IO,OOO against Sir T. M. Coornbe, a director of Union Theatres, Ltd., for alleged slander. No details of the alleged slander have been received by Haynes and Co. ALARM IN CATHEDRAL SYDNEY, Oct, 25. Dudley Denison Washington, 35, a laborer, who was armed with a Winchester ride, attended divine serivce at St. Andrew’s Cathedral yesterday morning. Taking his seat- among the worshippers, tie began suddenly to load the weapon. His actions were discovered by two of the wardens, and lie was removed. Washington was to-day remanded at the Central police court for medical examination. PR7CKLY PEAR. ATTACKED ( BRISBANE, Oct. 26. The death knell of prickly pear in Queensland has been sounded according to the report of the Prickly Pear Commission. It is stated that the pear is stilt prevalent, but is not flourishing. The attack of poisons on scattered pear and the continuous attack of the cochineal insects on the dense pear have not merely reduced tho area infested, but have relieved to a large extent all clean land from the danger of infestation. 1 STOLEN CAR CRASHES INTO HOUSE. MELBOURNE. Oct. 18. Late last night, a motor car which had been left outside a house in Moor street, Collingwood, was stolen and driven into Smith street, There it got out of control on a steep slope and crashed through a fence and into a wall of a brick villa occupied by Mr. .1. Smith. A hole was made in the wall, and the car stopped within two or three feet ol a bed in which a child was sleeping. The car was badly damaged, but the thieves escaped. COAL DUST EXPLODES. MELBOURNE, October 21. What is believed to have been an explosion of coal dust at the plant of the Australian Cement, Ltd., at Fvansford, near Geelong; this morning, resulted in four workmen being burned. The men were working some feet away from a huge steel cylinder with a capacity of about 30 tons of material, mostly coal in the process of drying. The men beard a dull sound, anci immediately there was a burst of flame, which almost enveloped them. J. Yates sustained bums about the face, head, and arms, and the other men were slightly burned about the arms and face. BEER IN 30-GN. CUP PROCESSION TU' ALL HOTELS CESS NOCK, (N.S.W.), Oct, 24.

To raise funds for tiio local hospital, Cossnock district doctors recently gave n liandsomo cup, valued at 30 guineas, to be played for by Soccer teams from the various collieries, i'bsterday A herdare Central won it, and this morning, although a few men went below, a large number stayed on the pit-top and drank beer from the cup. A minor grievance then cropped up, and the celebration was continued. The cup, with a crowd following, was taken to all the hotels and was tilled and reiilled many times.

HAIL FEET DEEP EXTENSIVE DAMAGE GRAFTON, Oct. 25. During a terrific storm at Mylnford, on the Upper Clarence, the wind reached hurricane force, hail piled feet deep m places, and then merged into solid ice, while rain fell in torrents to the accompanying of the roar of thunder and flashes of vivid Jightnng. The storm was about a mile wide, and passed over several districts, doing considerable damage. Houses were unroofed, verandahs torn off, barns, motor sheds, and other outhouses blown down or unroofed, trees uprooted, and fences lifted into trees. Sheets of iron wero carried hundreds of v yards. The hail stripped the fruit trees, and cut the crops to pieces. Many birds and fowls were filled. The creeks in the track of the storm were immediately turned into raging torrents, emptying mud and rubbish into tiie Clarence. Within a distance of half a mile there are eight big trees blocking the Copnianhurst road. A number of cows were killed or injured by falling trees. NIGHT RESCUE BY BOATMAN. JUNEE (N.S.W.) Oct. 15. The story of a brave rescue, in difficult circumstances, of a woman and two children is reported from Tumut. On Wednesday night Charles Oddv was ferrying Mrs. Morris and her two children, aged live and 13 years, across the. West Rlowering Creek, when the boat collided with a submerged object, and overturned. Mrs. Morris seized the younger child, and Oddv swam with the elder till lie found in the darkness the limb of a submerged tree. He put. the child on it and swam away to find Mrs. Morris and the other child. He cut a hand badly on some barbed wire in the search, but eventually located them, and brought Hem to the bank. M 's. Morris dislocated a shoulder when hanging on to an overhanging tree with one arm and supporting the child in the other, until Ocldy came to her rescue.