AUSTRALIAN.
Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Gopyriglii A PLUCKY "WOMAN. MELBOURNE, April 17.
T'ho Royal Humane Society has awarded Mrs Kennedy, wife of a lino repairer, a gold medal for conspicuous bravery in snatching a child from almost under the wheels of an engine. This is the first timo the Society has awarded the gold medal to a woman. WRESTLING. Advices have been received stating that at the wrestling match in New York, Gotch defeated Mahmont. A PLAGUE OF VERMIN. SYDNEY, April 17. A shipment of 50 dogs has been sent to the Solomon Islands, where the settlers are troubled with a plague of rats and mice. Other consignments will follow. Received 0.55 a.m., April 19th. OBITUARY. SYDNEY, April 18. The Archbishop of Sydney. AN OLD JVIURDEIt CASE. BRISBANE, April IS. An elderly man named McLaughlin lias been arrested here, charged with the murder of two men named Stevenson and Mustaffa at Johannesburg, in ..January ISOo. lie aws remanded pending the arrival ol >a '! rausvaal ollicor. Accused states that he and some mates were shelved from billets'by deceased, but he declares that he. had nothing to do with the murder, though he was blamed for it.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13881, 19 April 1909, Page 5
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