AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1920, Page 3

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i AUSTRALIAN <X N.Z. CAUIE ASSOCI VTION; A MURDER MYSTERY. SYDNEY, April 5. Meagher's qcqpittnl, on the charge of murdering his wifo at Randwiek followed on the judge’s comments on tho suicide of a mail named Form two days after Mrs Meagher’s murder. Fenn knew the Meaghers, and he was seen near their fiat. He was in desperate financial circumstances, and the day before the trgedv be told bis wife that lie would end lu's life unless lie raised CSO. The judge said that Fenn may have gone to Meagher’s flat, and, failtig to get money, he may have killed Mrs Meagher. The police have not yet solved the Fenn mystery.

1 general ranmvooD welcomed , SA'DNEA T , April 5. General Birdwood lias arrived, and had a great body of soldiers (including several generals) and the public, lhe latter thronged the streets, and soldiers carried General Birdwood on their shoulders to a motor car, which led il military procession to tho Town Hall, where he was tendered a civic reception. General Birdwood, in a’ speech, earn he ought not to be thanked for any thing he did over there. The most he could or still can do was not enough for the men. They proved themselves to be the salt of the earth.

UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENT (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Mqrch 0, Professor James Wilson has been appointed dean of the faculty of medicine at the Univoristy, in succession to Professor Anderson Stuart..

CHINESE CONVENTION. SYDNEY, April* 0. A convention of the Chinese Nationalist League of Australia including New Zealand delegates, is sitting in Sydney. The object is the uniting of all Chinese, republican organisations throughout the world, with a view to securing democratic rule in China, the restoration of Parliament, establishment of local Government bodies, suppression of militarism and cultivation of international friendship, The .Chinese Republican Convention has decided to erect headquarters in Svdnev at an estimated cost of CIO,OOO.

THE SHOW TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, April 6. The show tragedy was the outcome of jealousy. A boy in the crowd was also slightly wounded. FLY TO MELBOURNE. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April 6. Sir Ross Smith left Adelaide in a Vimy machine at 7.30. in the morning, and reached Melbourne at 2.15 ill (ho afternoon. BODY IDENTIFIED. SYDNEY, This Day. The body of a child found at Rodi has been identified as one of the missing family.

ARRESTED FOR MURDER. ADELAIDE, This Day. Alexander Lee has been arrested on a charge of murdering his wife and three children at Rh.vdie. The victims died after drinking milk, into which it was at first presumed rat poison had fallen. ■—■l M l —^—