AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[nr telegraph—rr.R press association.] SYDNEY’S LABOUR COUNCIL. SYDNEY. Dee. I. Labour swept the polls at the City Council elections to-day. securing an absolute majority over tin* other parties. The defeated candidates include the Lord .Mayor, .Mr Gilpin. The state of the parties is;—Labour 15. Civic Reform 11. .M ELUOURNE BANK ROBBERY. MELBOURNE. Dee. I.

When the robbers ordered Almeida to put u]) his hands, he jumped behind the partition', seized the bunk revolver, turned and faced the men. one of whom immediately fired, wounding Almeida. After Almeida pursued and hailed up one of tin* men. Major Wliolfev, a returned soldier and a friend of Almeida’s came to his assistance. Whollcy states he saw Almeida holding up a massive six foot man at tin* point of tla* revolver. The man walked with his hands in front of his face hack to the hank. Who!ley did not know iit the time that Almeida w.,s wounded, hut when he reached the bank he handed the revolver over to an other man and asked him to keep the prisoner covered. Almeida then collapsed. Shortly after the hold up residents of the locality saw a large ear containing three men travelling towards the eit.v. The same ear was noticed in the vicinity early in the (Jay. line resident took the number <,] this car which "as communicated to the police. Arrests followed.

Til K BANK MPBDFK. A REWARD OFFERED. MELBOURNE, December 2. Cabinet has decided to oiler a reward of £SOO for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man wlio murdered Almeida. The Police are <oiiviuccd that neither of the two men now in custody fired the fatal shot. They are combing the underworld for the missing man.

I.AROFR .1 FBI I,ANT. SYDNEY, December 2. Labour is jubilant over the civic elections victory and claims it. a splendid augiirv for the success ol the Labour Party at the coining State elections. The Civic Reform Party attribute their defeat to vote-splitting owing to the breakaway and independents, all of whom were (Ideated ; also to the recent rearrangement of boundaries and wards. Alderman Walker. whose name is prominent in connection with tin; Cmploy Commission was among those defeated. Sir ('has. Rosenthal was also defeated.

LORD .IF.LI.rCOi:. PARTICIPANT IN YACHT RACK. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 2. Lord .lellicoe will parti: ipate in tunn rrow's rate for yachts of the twentyone foot class, sailing the yacht (orclhi, which is owned by the GovernorGeneral. Governor de ( hair "ill sail his own boat, the Cheery. DISASTROUS FI IS I’.. BRISBANE. December 2. A disastrous lire at Aramae destroyed the Aramae and Albion Hotels and three other places. The damage is estimated at £IO.OOO.

A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. ITrsiIAXD MURDERS WIFE. (Received this day tit 10.2*> a.m.) MELBOURNE. December ’2. A domestic tragedy is icpnrlcd from Denmark twenty miles west of Albany, as (he result of which an elderly woman Elizabeth Blacknell. is dead. The liiisboud. Alfred Bhokncll. h.isiinendcred hiois**ll to the police. Deceased was last seen alive on h rid:iv afternoon by her son who asked her whv she was luoking so worried. The motlier replied: “Our '"'ute has boon spoiled. Tt is a miserable affair.” When the son returned home in the evening he found his mother lying dead jn a pool of blood. The police state the husband has confessed to murdering his wife after a (piarrel.