LATE CABLE NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2318, 1 April 1930, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

BACK AGAIN. DISCOVERY AT ADELAIDE. l • ■ ■ ;; Australian Press Assn—United Service ! .: ADELAIDE, This Day. The Discovery, with Sir Douglas Mawson aboard,.berthed .at the Sem<K phore anchorage. ' Sir Douglas expressed great pleasure at the success of the expedition and the safe, return. ..,,•„< >* i '

LAKE TRAGEDY.

LAUNCH ENGINE PAILS:

NINE PERSONS DROWNED.

BELGRADE, March 31.

When the engine of a pleasure lannch, failed in a storm on Lake Qehrida, nine of the occupants, who. tried to swim ashore were drowned, including two diplomats. The Military Governor and three women, .all of whom remained OB the launch, were saved. The saved < ■;■ also included the Secretary of the Yugoslav Foreign Office, who tried, to jump overboard, but was held fast t>y a projecting 1 hobk penetrating, his v trousers. . •

A FORCED LANDING.

THE "CITY OF.SYDNEY."

SYDNEY, This-Day. The /*City of Sydney.'? is expected to reach Wyndham to-day after repairSr ; . to the machine'bad been effected. King's party found the airmen near the Argyle Station, eighty miles southeast of Wyndham. - They were badly dn need of food.

A runway is being cleared at Wyndham for the plane to take off on the first stage of the fligh>to England.

PIEE AT SYDNEY. SYDNEY, This Day. A fire which broke out in the premises of Harris Bros., drapers, George Street,. City, about four a.m. this morning, spread rapidly and 'endangered largo shopping • blocks. in George and Goulburn Streets. '",.. ' v The flames leapt, high jnto the air. Firemen from eyery city .station are still fighting the flames at a late hour.