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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1922, Page 1

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VDBTBALIAN ArfD N.Z. CABLE AfiHOOIATION. COOGEE SHARK TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, March 6. Great crowds witnessed the funeral of Gannon, the victim of an attack by a shark at Cooge©. The cortege was headed by a squad of Mounted Police and the Police Band. MINA WYLIE’S NEW RECORD. SYDNEY, March (5. Mi ss Mina Wylie won the ladies’ backstroke swimming championship of New South Wales in 38secs, a world’s record.

FIRE. SYDNEY, March 6 Fire gutted Brown and Poison’s large ; cornflour mills at Campterdown. The fire caused damage estimated at between £30,000 and £40,000. NEW SOUTH WALES ORCHESTRA. SYDNEY, March 5. Strong feelings have been aroused over AT. Audrio Skalaski’s appointment as conductor of the State Orchestra. All musicians are expressing indignation that a local conductor has not been appointed. INCENDIARY FIRES. SYDNEY, March 6. At the inquiry into the recent fires at Darling Point (cabled on February 9), the Coroner’s verdict was that the fires were maliciously caused by some unknown person spraying the furniture with some chemical lieiuor, which burst into flames aftier a short exposure to the atmosphere. A NULLITY SUIT. • Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) PERTH, March 7. A remarkable nullity suit was heard. After the death of his wife of Robert Holmes, a wealthy pastoralist, drank heavily and became mentally and physically feeble. In May last two doctors certified ho was incapable of managing his own affairs, which his brother was managing. In the same month, Robert married his housekeeper. His brother, on behalf of Robert’s son, entered a petition for divorce, on the ground that Robert was incapable of contracting a marriage owing to his mental eonditon. Justice Burnside pronounced the marriage null audvouL^^^^