COMMONWEALTH ITEMS

Southland Times, Issue 17231, 30 December 1912, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH ITEMS

A MYSTERY SOLVED. (By Telegraph.—Prese ABBaelatlon.— Copyrl^W, SYDNEY, December 28. > The mystery of the vanished banKJ notes, amounting to £l5O, which wer®, taken from the Savings Bank counter* has been solved. The Bank receive® a message by telephone from a gentle—, inan slating that a lady had taken then* by mistake, which was not discovered until the bank had closed. A QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY. BRISBANE, December 28. At the enquiry into the death of Mis# Zilman Mrs Walker detailed how she came to reside with Burgess. Witness came to Warwick to look after the property of her dead sister, who was Burgess's wife. AVitness, later, returned. - home to Mungindi. She denied thati any arrangement was made for her fu—ture if Burgess married again, but admitted that Burgess promised certain, assistance from her dead sister’s property. She knew nothing pointing to the person who sent the chocolates. BURGESS CHARGED. BRISBANE, December 28. Received December 29, 5.5 p.m. Robert Burgess lias been charged witJi having murdered ZUlmaim. TASMANIAN ELECTIONS. HOBART, December 28. The Assembly has dissolved. Th# elections take place on January 23. AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES. SYDNEY, December 28. A contract at £37,000 has been a®, cepted for the installation of the automatic telephone at Islebe, Newtown, an® Balmain.