AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

M STIIALIAN AN!) N.Z. f'A-I’LE ASSOCIATION. ABOLISHING Sift (IN I)-(’ LASS. SYDNEY. Oet. The t Irieni, I am- is loi i Ir.vit li put i mg into force tli - wu iioli'-y for the r.boliion ol second fin- (Irniomh*. whicli was i- --inly enlivened to an nil burner ami ill Ormir. will la- the first ti) Com under ibe n-. w eemiil ions. NEW WOOLLEN MILLS. BIHSBANE. 0.-t. .I. The North Australian l nite-i Woollen ('mnpnny is erecting a null at l-ris-|;.;,ije at a cost ol two hundred thousand. 11 is expected to , inpb’.y I :ur liundred bauds. Lat--r u will e'taobsn mills in Rockhampton and i nwus.uile. DEFEATED ON TAXATION PROPOSALS. IKH’.A.BT. O : "I. 'j’be |.ec Government w *Gf, •t "< Inu its linen- in’. I a Xal lon 1 ’ SUN Bi ’RST SOLD. MELBOURNE. i. Following Id- two tenures at the Viet.via Amateur Tori' ( lub

ting. t'• n..:d''• -id sinn■Hirst to Kel-O. Tile pri'-e i- not staled but ( understood f’ be eou-idcrnb.y t, lV .. r than recent. 1 v offered by the Inbuyer. The sale follow- the mjtti, v into Sunbiirsi'- > ')"Uing in the 'Windsor Handicap last Satc.rony m which the owner was exonerat'd. ' wil' lie ivni'-mbcp'd lhai iselso al-e purchased Connolly'- Mctin.-te he-i am iimn for live hundred guinea-, this purehase also followmg m. inquiry bv the I’amlwii k stewards wnich o-ullei. p, the owner's exoneration. I*KC ri.IAR SI lOOTTNG CASE. Mlll.lloniNE. Get. 21. la ihe earlv hours of the morning, Lancelot Johnson, a boarder at a wine s;b,: n ill North Melbourne. beard ■ ottmls of somebody forcing an entry and went to the kitchen armed with a revolver. He saw a mall, who proved to be an ex-policeman. I mud ll.'.rui„g. entering. He fired, and mortally wounded Harding. The police allege Johnson slated be bad shot Harding ! v mistake. Hr said ho heard sounds downstairs, looked from a window, saw ihroe men sealing a back fence. He went to the kitchen, and as the poor v ,a- 1.,,,--: in be fired. He discovered ho bad shot Harding, who was a friend .a- p;... Johnson lias been charged with lmml'.-r.