AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1924, Page 3

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iUBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. l.rxni.EY II UMAX RED. SYDNEY. September I*A. l.indley has been remanded on the charge of murdering Walter, and on two i barge- of musing grievous bodily harm to the other men injured. Counsel f< r l.indley | lot. -ted against the m*ws| ap: r state,mint that he did not .-top when the mishap occurred. Lie declared that lie did .stop and that lie took the injured men to the hospital. Tin* police evidence uns that after the incident he drove on. hut eatm* hack. l.indley uas married only a few hours Lefi re t lie ne current e. SYDNEY WOOL BRICES. Sydney. Sept. da. There was a full in list <l* al the opening of the wool-selling season, aniL a strong general demand. I’riees were buoy, nit. anil in the sellers’ favour throughout. The level of values was fully equal to Ihe Brisbane opening sales a fortnight ago, and quite ten per cent, above the dosing rates of the Sydney June stiles. Ymkshirc, French and Japanese buyers were especially tieiive. Greasy merino sold to l!7:[d per lb. and scoured (ild. THE AIAWSON SURVIVORS. (Received this day al 11,2-A a.ni.l BRISBANE. September IA. A reoiirt from ( antain Wilkins who is leiuling ii private party in the atl -mpt to re-cue the Malison survivors, states he que-tii :ied the natives at Cmminghuu* Dhind, wlm said they had heard of the while women who were now on the nisiiiih-iin 1. One of them and a white girl child were now living in the camp ol a man mimed Bokhara. The other was held h.v a man named Alajara. The unities said the women had made an attempt to gel in touch uith a passing ve-sel last year hut their cantors threatened tu spear them it tliev made a further clfurt. Coilstnhl.* Green now at Katherine, states he searched the Gulf of Carpentaria for wreckage of the Alawsott last year and collected information from the natives which included a reference to two women .survivors from the wreck who were then with the blacks. Ibis information was reported to private nffieial circles hut without further result or teal investigation. It "as thought hv the people cemented, to I. * false and no action was taken. A WANTED MAN. .MELBOURNE, September LA. Alexander Clarence Thomas, seventeen, for whom the police are searching in connection with the Enwright murder is believed to he within a radius of one hundred miles of Woodouga. lie is believed to lie travelling afoot somewhere noth-we-t ol Alelliouriie. The imliec estimate lie has covered over a thousand miles in the last two months.