AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

|Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.. .FEDERAL PAR LI AMENT. MELBOURNE, August 13. The Federal Parliament (has adjourned to a' date to be fixed, but- Senator Pearce indicated that there would he another session in Melbourne eailj next year. MAULED BY LIONESS. SYDNEY, Aug. 13. While a circus was unloading wild animals at. the railway station, an orange boy, Patrick Burkie, who was watching the proceedings, was standing near the cage of a lioness when the animal thrust through her paw and seized the liny’s ann. A number of bystanders attempted: to beat the lioness off, but only succeeded after the boy’s limb had been frightfully mangled.

TRAWLER WRECKED. ' SYDNEY, Aug. 11. The trawler Brolga formerly owned by Sandfords Limited, of Auckland, struck Beware Reef on the south-east coast of Victoria while on a voyage from Melbourne to Sydney. The vessel was later abandoned. The crew of eleven landed safely. CRICKET MEMENTOES BURNT. MELBOURNE. Aug. M. A fused electric wire was responsible for a destruction by fire of the members’ pavilion at South Melbourne cricket ground. The greatest loss to the Club is that of a series of old photographs, most of which cannot he replaced, of members of the Club who became famous in the cricket world, such as Warwick Armstrong. H. and A. E. Trott, Jack Conway, who resigned the captaincy of the Club to manage the first Australian Eleven to visit England.