AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

POTATO MARKET. SYDNEY, April 28. The arrivals of large consignments of Victorian, Tasmanian and New Zealand potatoes, totalling over thirty thousand bags, during the past couple of days, has caused a fall of £2 to £3 per ton. Prime brownells have dropped to £ls per ton. The price of New Zealand potatoes has been fixed at £ll to £l2 per ton, and contracts have been made for consignments of the New Zealand tubers covering the next two months.

The Victorian and the Tasmanian suppliers do not regard the New Zealand implications favourably, and the indications arc that they are rushing forward supplies with the object of breaking the market, where tire values lately have ruled very high. :"('«■ Zealand swedes arc selling up to £l2 per ton. The price of New Zealand onions, just arrived, is not fixed, hut it is expected to be about £lB per ton.

A BOV SUICIDES. SYDNEY, April 29

A 1 5-year old boy. Thomas Sedgineii and a companion, ran away from home, intending a country adventure. They reached Blackheath and spent a cold night in the hush without food. A policeman found them next morning, supplied a breakfast and sent them home by train. When they arrived homo Sodgmen’s mother asked where he had been, 'flic hoy without replying wont to his bedroom and a few minutes later a revolver shot was heard and the hoy was discovered dead shot through the head. He left- a note for his mother saving he was sorry for what lie was going to do and asking her to say good-bye to the whole family.