AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 24 December 1926, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(Per Press Association—Copyright.) ADELAIDE. This Day. The death is announced ol Mr Beaumont Menlden, formerly State Attorney-General. SYDNEY. December 23. During the current year there has a record number of divorce eases in New South Wales, namely 1336, compared with 1265 in the previous year. ADELAIDE, December 23. John Alfred Battersby, his wife and young son, were found shot at their home in North Croydon. All were sent to hospital with bullet wgv.nds in their heads arid bodies, their condition being serious. It is supposed that Battersby shot his wife and son, then himself. SYDNEY, December 23. Discommoded by a. new set of false teeth, a farmer, working in the bush in the Graftcn district, placed them on a stump. A Inagpie stole the teeth, and alighted on a high tree. The farmer filed his gun, but missed, and saw no more of the magpie or the teeth. He is now conducting a merciless war on the whole magpie family. MELBD tt RNE, December 23. T“< nolice r ided a chemist’s shop at Caulfield anc seized a printing press and on-? tbo”y'i "<1 forged £5 notes. Three men w- e arrested. 'The police ”' J 'Se that the men in a statement sa : d they were to print £12.500 worth o f notes on Friday and circulate them while the Banks were closed for the Christmas holidays. If the plan succeeded they intended circulating a similar amount the following Friday.