AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1924, Page 4

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. [ BRITISH FLEET. PERTH, March 3. The squadron has arrived at Albany where tho ships will bo painted before i proceeding to Adelaide. c c ANOTHER TRAGEDY, a BRISBANE, March 3. t While Nurse Elsie Newton with Wil- t liain Gray were on the way to church i at Maryborough last evening, they ] noticed they were followed by a man I Henry Fall], who later addressed New- .* ton, telling her he desired a few words ; with her. Gray stopped asido and . without warning Fnhl drew a revolver and fired, one shot striking Newton in the right eye and tho other knocking out three of her teeth. She fell and Fald then fired three shots at his own forehead, only causing slight injuries. With Mood streaming from liis face Falil lay alongside tho girl and said “T love you, I have done for myself.” Gray rushed to tho girl’s assistancee and conveyed her to the hospital. Fald meanwhile escaped. Tho police followed him to a boarding house and found Fahl before a wardrobe cutting his throat. He was rushed and knocked down but died in a few minutes. Miss Newton is expected to recover, but her sight is permanently destroyed. A letter found in Fahl’s pocket was addressed “To whom it may concern” anil gave the motive for the action and stated he was perfectly sane. He was married with three children. YAOIIT FATALITY. MELBOURNE, March 3. A yacht containing three men, ‘ George Cooper, Walter Milliner, and ’ 1 tarry Bryant capsized in Port Phillip Bay and all wore drowned. The men set out early in the morning on a fishing expedition. Later tho yacht was seen capsized, drifting, with no trace ' of the missing men. Nobody witnessed ’ tlic. tragedy, the cause of which is unknown, but it is surmised that a suddes change of wind caught the craft } which was carrying a big spread of canvas, and capsized her. ’ THREE PERSONS DROWNED, t BRISBANE, March 3. While a motor party of eight per--1 sons were crossing Johnstone river in a ferry punt at Dnradgee for some unexplained reason a motor car ran over " the end of the punt into deep water. * Five passengers managed to get clea'r ' but Ivy Wales, aged 10, Phyllis M’Kin 1 ley, 15, and her brother Georgo M’Kin--3 ley, 13, were imprisoned in the car and were carried to the bottom of tho river and drowned.