Australian Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 October 1912, Page 3

Australian Cables.

■BY ELECTRIC TELEfII!APIi--COVYIUOIIT] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] JIOBAKT. This Day. The North .Mount Lyell shaft has been re-opened. Smoke is issuing and has apparently increased. The shaft has been left open until a perceptible change one way or the other takes place. It is impossible • to say whether the fire is out. Definite indications are hoped lor shortly. Work' is progressing favour- . ably at the company's Romstoek . mine. The ore from Romstoek with t Tharsis and Mount Lyell mines will ] keep the smelter employed until normal conditions have been reestablished.

SAD DEATH. lUMSISAXK. October '->!). A bnshman named Daveney. wiule pasing a tree at lerrick station, heard sounds of young galnhs. lie stood on horseback and put his arm in a hollow limb where the nest was situated. The horse walked away, leaving Daveiiey .-.winging in mid-air. He attempted to cut his imprisoned arm off at the shoulder, but failed. He then succeeded in cutting it at the elbow, wfieii lie fell. He walked a few yards, lay dow'n. and died. AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS I!Lv TURN. FREMAXTLE, This Day. Mr Crouch, the manager of the Australian eleven who recently itod Fngland, has arrived. The trip, he says, was an unsatisfactory one from tho point of view of the weather. The players were, therefore glad when the tour ended. He Will sure the popularity of tho 'game mi England was undiminished. The crowds were larger than before.

A JIORRIISI/15 CRIME. A French settler. numod Marius Martin, gave a neighbour a seeded noto stating that Mis -Martin had been murdered. A .search resulted in iinditig the body in Martin's house. Tt was hacked about the, head with a tomahawk. Thy man Martin is missing. FRUIT FAM f NE. | iSYDX f'jY, Tin's Day. A fruit t'a-niine is prevailing. It is twenty years since fruit was so scarce.