AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 3 January 1929, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Per Press Association —Copyright). SYDNEY, January 2 Hundreds of searchers are combing tho mountainous country in the vicinity of Macskville for traces of Mrs BloomHeld, aged 70, who disappeared from her daughter’s home on Christmas Day. Little hope is held out of finding her alive. MELBOURNE, January 1. It is understood that a Board of Inquiry is being appointed to investigate the contracts for the building ol aeroplanes for the Defence Depart, ment in connection wherewith Mr Shepherd has been suspended. Tiie inquiry is likely to be protracted, pending the return of Colonel Brrnsmead head of the Department, who is visiting the United States. SYDNEY, January 2 A violent explosion, the cause of which is unknown, wrecked a bootshop in front of a picture theatre in the suburb of Earlwood early in the morning. A fire broke out and the roadway was strewn with debris. The picture theatre was damaged, the walls being cracked. Other buildings nearby were also shaken. The firemen subdued the flames. LONDON, December 3]. The Berlin correspondent of “The Tinies” states that German naval designers and engineers believe that the 10,000 ton armoured cruiser now being constructed, represents a triumph of German inventiveness over the Versailles limitations, and renders the ordinary 10,000 tenners antiquated. It will be speedy enough to operate with light cruisers, and strong enough to encountei' battleships or anything else afloat except battle cruisers. SYDNEY, January 1. Nola Bowlev. aged 18, fell over a cliff at Echo Point, Katoomba, early in the morning. A search throughout th<‘ day proved fruitless. Three men assert that they saw the girl go over after an a'tercation with young men in a party of which she was a member. It is alleged that they wanted her to go in a car, but she declined and, according to eye-witnesses, declared that i> pressed, she would go over the top. She clambered over the protecting roi 1 , and betorr- her would-be pursuers could prevent it, iia<t slid over the face of the cliff. SYDNEY, January 2. How a father gave his life for Ins daughter was revealed by the !■- savin Purcell who went to the assi-t n <■ <1 Stanley Wallace (.39) and his daughter, when they were carried out by ar undertow on the Bilgola beach. Wallace, who was ha vino h ret tussle, with the waves, supporting lodaughter, said to Purcell: “Never mind me. take the child.” Purcell managed t<: reach the shore. Meantime two brothers went to tl assistance of Wallace. The three men were Washed dang ’ ously near the rocks, but eventual:'’ succeeded in reaching the bea< h. However Wallace was dead. The girl was unconscious and Pnr< was exhausted when assisted ashore Both were revived after a lengthy treatment.