AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.} SYDNEY, July 12. I-atest investigations incline to strengthen the police belief that Mrs Nicholls, driven desperate by the unfortunate position of her family, killed her husband and sons, and then committed suicide, but all direct evidence having been destroyed, there is great difficulty in solving the mystery. i'll EIGHT DEDUCTIONS. SYDNEY, July 12. ! The Oversea* Shipowners’ Association have not received details hitherto of the reductions in freight rates hut the Commonwealth line has announced substantial reductioms in frozen ..meat rates, reduced to cl beef, ljcl lamb, wool to ljjd scoured, I' ( d greasy, apples' to .‘3s Gd, butter to 4s, general cargo to G3s. TUGELA STIDL ON ItEEF. SYDNEY, July 12. Advice has been received that the steamer Tugcla is still on Helen lteef. Four hundred tons of cargo have been shifted aft. It is hoped to save the vessel and the greater part of the cargo. WiKESTLING. MEUiBOUHNE, Jinly 12. In the heavyweight championship with a smashing blow l to 4lie. point o the jaw Billy Meeske outed Clarence Weber in the sixth round. Weber was declared the winner on a foul. ,\n excited crowd i looted Meesko, ,v,hom the police escorted to his dressjig room.