AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[nv temigkai'll —run causa association.] DOUGLAS MAWSOX WOMEN. .MELBOURNE, October It; Si'i alor Pea no hat received a gi.n* IT him tin* Vd'i.iiistratii:' ol • I -.* Northcii Territory. slating that lb slenmci sent to search for the missing Douglas .Maw sou women has returned :o Oaiivio. The oliin-r in charge ol Hie search parlv report s that they made a thorough scar'll, and are convinced there is no foundation in tin* story that white women are held in capture by the Blacks . DOUGLAS MAWSOX WOMEN. (Received this day at 11.21 n.m.) DARWIN. Oil. 13. The police report that in their search for Hie missing Douglas Mawson women, they travelled right across Arn-lti-ini island, but found no trace whatever of tie* while women, nor did they see many blacks. The Aboriginals apparently were well aware of the approach of the police and the nature of their mi-sion, and so disappeared so mysteriously. Some of the police consider the .search will produce nothing. They say the country traversed in pursuit of tin* blacks is extremely dilliciilt. A BIG FIRE. BRISBANE, October 12. A lire in Rockhampton's main business block destroyed Bremnor’s large drapery emporium, and badly damaged the “ Evening News ” building, in which a number of other lirm-s are housed. The damage is in the vicinity of C 10,000. BALLYMENA'S MISHAP. 'Received this day at 8.10 a.m.) SYDNEY. Oct. 13. Mr Knight sailed for New Zealand on Thursday, and was wirelessly informed of Ballymena’s mishap, which consisted of a compound fracture of the fetlock joint. Brown, the rider of David, says his mount was not near enough to have galloped on Ballymena, and lieed. the latter’s rider confirms this.

RIFLE SHOOTING. SYDNEY. October 12. The National Rifle Association meetng opened at Liverpool Range yesterlav. in a strong gusty wind. A nttnil.er of New Zeahinders are competing in the later matches.

DOUBLE TRAGEDY. BRISBANE. Ootolior 13. A tragedy occurred near Maryborough. The details are obscure. Charles Bavldon. 3S, and Myrtle Moore, sixteen, wore engaged to he married. Later the girl refused to marry, though Bavldon continued friendly. The girl was staving with a relative. Bavldon called at the house this morning with a motor lorry, stating his mother wanted to see Myrtle. They drove away together and nothing more was scon of them till the evening when it was reported to the police that Bavldon bail shot himself, in the lorry, where they found him fatally wounded. He died shortly after. On lifting a tent Hy in tho vehicle, the police discovered the • Oily of Myrtle- Moore with a terrible gasii in the neck and the head shattered. She had apparently been dead for some hours, Bavldon was a returned soldier and suffered from shell shock.