Australian News.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 June 1912, Page 3

Australian News.

L"V KLKfTI!)!.- -l-KMaillAl'i;- ( OI'VIUCIITJ [l'Kl! IM.'KSS ASStKiMIoN-. ] (Hweivwl This i)ay, 11-.'iC am.) .MO.VSOOXAL I! A INS. S-YDNKY, This Day. .Monsniiiial rains have fallen o\er a 'J,nr.\t port ion ot' ii.-nstei-n Austiatia. West.-ni Queensland has greatly heiiejited. .M..M.S. K.NfOl'Nl'Kn. .SYJ)XKY, This Day. Captain Uialme;-.-, Jias been ;ipIjointed to conmiand the Kneonnter. XKW SOl'TIl WALKS" CJMCKET SKLKCTOI! DKAD. SYDNEY, This Day. Krnest Jliinie. .selector of tlio New •South Wales Cricket Association, died in London from pneumonia. Ho accompanied ['■. Australian eleven.

He caught a tram, t '.oat, a 'bus, Some, fish, a cricket ball; He caught his typist talking to The chief clerk through the wall, He caught both 'roo and wallaroo, Upon his annual tour; But saved himself from catching cold, With Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.—Advt. Pink still is selling biols and shoes and mending those he sold before; hie shop is filled from roof to door with latest shades from tans to blues; walking shoes and navvies' boots, heavy, middling, light; qua!' ity that alvyays suite; buy a pair tonight.—Adrfc.

j TENNIS. ! SYDNEY*, This Day/ j Tin , western districts tennis tour- | In the western districts tennis I tournament, Quill, of ~Sw Zealand, I was beaten in the second round smj gle.s. championship by Parker. Quill won the second senii-nnal doui bles. j SCIMMCY JfILL TRAGEDY. j . SYDNEY. This .Day. t .Airs !Margaivt Middle, wlio was s'iot in a street at .Surrey Hills on ■June 1"). died on Saturday. Thomas Kvan-, I'ormerly lodgiitfr with -Mrs I liid(!li\ has been arrested in conncc- | lion with the matter. j KAK.U LAIJOUJIEirs WINDFALL .MKLIJOnSNE, This Day. \\. Quirk, a laiin liancl, and six menil)ers of his family have inherite,.l t;2";t),(!l)(). ! BILLIARDS. MKLJJOURM-:, This Day. L.'iidr.im lias made 8001. with ''■■eaio ( ,r 7;U and 215. Williams !ms made (ii;j|, mi V o i" lu, s breaks Ivin- l!)i-.