AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1924, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

IUBTEALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION M AR VETERAN’S DEATH. SYDNEY, October 25. Obituary—John Augustus Rada, a Maori war veteran aged eighty-eight. GENERAL STRIKE threat. MELBOURNE, October 25. It is reported a waterside strike involving wharf labourers, seamen, railwayinen, carters, drivers and other Unionists has been planned for third November in an attempt to abolish the shipping labour bureau. Tho Trades Hall Council throughout Australia is being warned to be prepared for a general struggle.

ANOTHER SYDNEY SHOOTING. SYDNEY, Oet. 2G. Following on an altercation in a home at Paddington, Ethel Leighton, wife of Frank Leighton, a well-known city merchant, was severely wounded in the head by a shotgun. She was admitted to hospital in a. critical condition.

After the shot was heard, Mrs Leighton’s little daughter ran down a lane calling for help. A neighbour rushed into Leighton’s house and found Mrs Leighton on the floor in a pool of blood. The police were informed, and on arrival found Leighton upstairs in a chair, smoking a pipe. Blood was running from a superficial wound on his head, alleged to l»c self-inflicted. The police state that the shooting was the outcome of long-standing domestic unhappiness. Mrs Leighton informed the police that she was sitting at a table writing when she felt a blow on the hack of her head, and fell unconscious. Leighton lias been charged with shooting with intent to murder. AGAINST SPAIILINGER CURE. FREMANTLE, Oct .27. Doctor A. Izard, of New Zealand, who arrived on the Orcades, dealing with the efficiency of the Spalilingcr treatment, declared it was cruel to hold out hopes to those, suffering from tho great white scourge, when even Spalilinger himself admits he has not vet discovered the serum. Spalilingcr is not a qualified medical man and it will he time for the Government to rush to his aid when tho supposed cure has stood the test of time. It. was absurd for either the. Australian or the New Zealand Governments to sponsor Spahlinger when lie had been refused refused recognition by the British Medical Association, which was advised by the greatest of living specialists. HEAVY HAIL STORM. SYDNEY, October 2G. Violent storms accompanied bv heavy hail, passed over I’allnmallawa wheat crop. The storm was about four miles wide and the hail in some places is heaped to about six inches. M’indows were smashed and roofs damaged. The damage will run into many thousands.