AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ITTBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE SYDNEY T KAHEDY. (Received this day at S a.in.) SYDNEY. August 20. Mr.- Mi-Hill. who has been under medical treatment, suffering from nervous trouble and her family had just returned from a motor drive. The deed was committed while i lie husband I was outside attending to the ear. The -a- taps were turned on and the doors and windows fastened in the room where the bodies were found. DROP IN POTATOES. SYDNEY. Au-u«i 20. Heavy supplies caused a slump in |ntaloe. which dropped by ROs tier ton to £7 for best. Tasmanians. CHESS. SYDNEY, Aug. 25. The Chess Championship of Australia was won by Yiuer (New South Wales!, who heat- Watson (of Yicoria). BIT’KLEY'S CASE. SYDNEY. Aug. 25. Buckley’s charges against W’ealcy and Pal,|e'-on (as cabled on Mill.) lu.ve been withdrawn and the defendants discharged. Il i- explained that Buckley has issued the warrants in merely a formal way a- Secretary ol the Railway-men's Cnimi. TEN 'MIDI SAND THEFTS. MEI.IIDCKNE. August 20. Ten thousand ami eight thefts have been reported iu Melbourne during the last eight weeks and the.stolen propertv is valued at. £15.000 but few arrests have been made and there have been no t nnvi' tinns.