AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18580, 14 December 1934, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Thomas Kent, a retired farmer, was electrocuted at Home JJiU, Queensland, while releasing a woman from an electric earth wine.

The Federal Labor Party is making nrnfuxgerngnrs to run a candidate for Auburn against Mr Lang at the State elections.

I ( n hi,s.annual report %<? -jVdniin.isttiator of- Norfolk Island says. the economic position .thaw is serious, and is becoming worse. The Federal Ministry -will give early consideration to proposals for t-lto appointment of a Koval Cppimissioh or., alternatively, a committee of inquiry into the monetary and banking system‘in Australia. The Federal Government .has invited the Premiers to Canberra to discuss the standardisation of railway gauges as an unemployment relief work.

The Noty South Wales, Cabinet’s programme of relief works submitted to the Federal Government provides for an expenditure of £3,000,000. The presence of a parasite in grasshoppers is reported from the Gooudiwindi district, on the Queensland border. It was estimated that as a result oe a recent storm approximately 10,000 newly-born sheep in the Geelong district have been lost- 1 11 Meredith and Elaine districts there wias a loss of about 5000 sheep, 2000 being on one property. Three men were electrocuted at '-South Me lb p. tube during the height of a storm, two of them losing" their lives when they went to the rescue of a horse and rider who had collapsed in electrified flood waters. A committee, comprising Dutch citizens in the East Indies, has sent a number of handsome presents to Aiburv council and residents. Lhei t. are tokens of gratitude for help given when Partner) tier and Moll landed at Aliiurv during the .‘Jr race. Mr Mark Aitken, a well-known pearler, stated that the Japanese were increasing their .pearling boats operating off’ the north Australia u const. Pearlers believed, lie said, that the Japanese Government was investigating .the .pcwHhcU iiidur-t ry from the commercial standpoint. A message from Oiinvin says Dial peanut farmers on the Daly River, south-west of Darwin, are faced, witti a famine. The coastal steamer Maroubra; which was taking supplies to them, stranded on a mudbaiik,. and may remain fast for weeks.. . \ A street chase took place in Sydney after a man who, it is alleged, seized a sum of money from a bank counter at Die Maymarket. The fugitive threw the money away as ho ran, apd of 10 £1 notes scattered by the wind oply two were returned to the police. When n motor lorry loaded with wool, and driyog l>y men named Turnmil t and Shortt, was en route to Charleville. thousands of grasshoppers settled on the lorry, forcing the iimn to stop the engine until the swarm had passed. Turnbull and 'Shorn drove 30 miles through swarms of grasshoppe.rs. November marked t.ho centenary of Die Theatre Roy.nl in Hobart. This si one building is the oldest theat re, in Australia, if not in the British Empire. .Tt was built as the result of a public meeting, and the first performance he'd in it. was “The Taming of the Shrew.” The theatre is still the solo strong,post of the legitimate stage in II oh a ft. A furniture store at Cessnoek Avas destroyed by lire recently, the damage j being estimated at about. £IO,OOO. A •wall" of the burning store .crashed ! through an adjoining weatherboa nl building, killing a man and injuring his wife.