AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

IUfIXKALIAN ANX* N. 7. CAtlt-F AS.-tOfIATIUN RAINS IN N.S.W. fl'ecoivcd this clay at 8 a.m.) .SYONKY, August -M. Spli'iuliil rain fell over the gi'ealcr part of the State, accompanied by warmer conditions. Crop pros|icc(s are excellent and a '-tend harvest is eoiisidered assured. WORK OK A MANIAC. MKUiOCRNK. Au-iist -’C The police regard the hoy Mount's murder as the work ol a maniacal petvori. They state that the actual cause ol dentil was .strangulation or suffoction. which prohahlv was ellected liefore the hotly was mutilated. Apparently the child was lirst damped face downwards into a muddy pool. Ihe mutilations, which consist- ol a large circular wound in the lower part of the stomach, made- with a sharp instrument. would, however, have heon siiflicient themselves to cause death. No clue has yet hcon discovered. MIN'MILS IM'T OKK. (Received this day at- 1 11 a.m.'l SYDNKY, August -.’7. Notices of the termination of employment have hcen received hv three hundred miners at the Aherdare mine. The Superintendent states the reason for the action is tin- excessive ovorliond cliargos and the* lack of trade. There are now one thousand unemployed at the Aherdare enllerics. Kr.oons IN VICTORIA. RAIN WORTH MILLIONS. MELIIOt'RNK.. August :27. Floods in the Ynrra are causing anxiety in the low lying areas. Many places have been flooded and the Water is still rising at Seymour. Rain continues falling and a hig Hood is expected. One man was marooned in a tree lor live hours until rescued hv a police hunt. . Whitehead’s Creek inundated the lower portion of three streets m places to a depth of three feet.. Stoek is being removed with ditlieultx because the railway line is under water. Children from a scho.d at .Tac Ksou’s Creek had to he carried through four feet of water. Several bridges lm«b been wrecked and the roads washed out. but at tlu s same time the rain will he worth mil lions to tlio fnnneis.