AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] SYDNEY, Alay 11. Later returns leave the election position practically unaltered. One of the Labour seats is reported to be doubtful. BOYS SMOTHERED. BRISBANE, May 10. Four buys named, Fred Hayes, Tom Hayes, M. Odgnr, and R. Thomas, their ages running from seven to twelve years, were sitting on the bank of a, creek in the Rockhampton district, when a large section of the hank collapsed. The hoys were precipitated 40 feet into the crock. Tom Haves escaped in a bruised condition, but Hie others were smothered in the debris and mud.
APPLE SHIPMENTS. HOBART, May 11. Owing to the British strike it lias been decided lo slop the shipment of apples. This affects four steamers which this month should have loaded mine two hundred thousand cases. Already 2,013,000 eases have been shipped this season, whereof half have reached or are within reach of England.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1926, Page 1
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151AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1926, Page 1
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