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Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1926, Page 3

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[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) KALGOORLIE MURDERS. THE DEFENCE. PERTH, August 28. Counsel for the accused continued his address to the jury in the Kalgoorlie murder case. Counsel gave Treffane’s version of the shooting. He said that Detectives Walsh and Pitman were watching Treffime. who was working alone. The officers were expecting the mate of Treffene to come along, as the. tracks of motor cars were visible in the vicinity. Eventually Treffane left the plant, carrying a shotgun over bis shoulder, and a bar of gold in his left band. The detectives then called out: “Hold on Phil! We want you!” Treflene then began to run away, and the detectives gave chase. When the police were close to him, Treffene stumbled, and lie nearly fell. Me made a grub for bis gun. which went off. Treffene dropped the gun, and then lie noticed Pitman in the act of falling. Walsh too staggered and fell to the ground, having evidently been shot through the jugular vein. Pitman was shot ill the eye. Treffene then went to get something to staunch Walsh’s bleeding, but on bis return, he found him dead. Clarke came along later, and he persuaded Treffene not to tell tlie police, ns *1 rcffoiio desired that they should do. They returned to Boulder City. Clarke went out to the plant the same night, and the next morning Clarke told 1 reftene that lie had tried to burn the bodies, but lie could not manage it, so lie bad bad to cut them up.

A DISTRESSING TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, Aug. 29. The death of a woman. Mrs Tliorau. aged seventy, was discovered in terribly distressing circumstances at A\ vong. When a neighbour knocked at her door, it was opened by Mrs Tlioraii’s grown-up daughter in a demented condition. She said that ljcr mother was sick. The. neighbour, on entering, found the body of Airs Tliorau on the floor of the bedroom. She had been dead for six days. Apparently she fell .and- broke her neck, and her daughter, becoming demented thought that she was only ill. She had been making attempts during the whole period to feed the dead woman. The daughter was removed to an a.svlum.

WRESTLING. MEUTiOCRNT'.. Aug. 29. Yorkel heat Claphaui by one fall to none in the Bt!i. round. baptist church. (Received this day at 9.0 a.mA SYDNEY. Aug. 111). A conference of the Baptist, Church Union of Australia, dealing with the question of Church Union, carried a motion that the Assembly should urge Baptist Churches to firmly and courteously maintain Baptist principles, but at the same time to co-operate heartily in other communions wlioreever possible in all that pertained to an extension of the Kingdom of God. TRAM! v. BUS. MELBOURNE. Aug. 30. At the opening. of a new section of tramway, the Chairman of the ’I raniway Board. Mr Cameron. said the system of motor buses, which the Board was forced to operate to compete with private bus owners, involved a loss of £50,000 last year alone The receipts were £17.000 short of the working expenses to which had to bo added depreciation. Interest and other charges. He contended that the condition of the roads made it impossible to run a motor Inis service for more than two years without meeting with disaster.

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE. August 30. A domestic shooting tragedy involving five deaths was discovered in f lonely market gardener’s hut East Waverlev. The victims were Edward Aleoek. Faith (his wife) and throchildren, aged seven, four and two respectively. It is thong'd Aloud shot his wife and children and flier himself. Financial worries are supposed to he responsible. COBH AM STARTS FOR HOME. ADELAIDE, August 30. Co him in has commenced his returi flight to England. He left Melbourne and arrived at Adelaide alter 51 hour? flying, landing on ground surroundecby barbed wire entanglements through which it was practically impossible to break. SHOOTING. PERTH. August 30. . Shooting in the final stage of thKing’s prize resulted, in a win im E. C. Gore (Perth) with a total of 330 points. Gore also won the champion

aggregate with 471. SYDNEY’S PARKS. SYDNEY. August 10. .V movement aiming at the more eifective control of Sydney's parks, an at a more adequate return for the yearly , expenditure of upwards o £35,00(1 which is allocated by the City Council for their maintenance and im provement. is generally supported, especially among those ill a position t compare the city parks and guidonwith those in other cities. Ihe coinmeat in the Press, in reference to tin question that the metropolis of Sydliev has the unenviable distinction o “ breathing spaces ” which can only b described as third-rate, even on a com parison of Australian standards, is noi without justification. Even if it, may be regarded as base irreverence for a

Sydneysider to say so, the fact remains that Sydney’s parks, with one or two exceptions, lack the well-ordered beauty and landscape effects of the open spaces of Melbourne, for example, not to mention those of the New Zealand cities. Apart from the Botanic Gardens. Hyde Park, which is now largely in the possession of the Railway Commissioners.

for the purposes of the underground railway, and. in a lesser degree. Centennial Park. Sydney’s parks, as has been pointed out, could in very many cases be mistaken for mere fig-tree plantations, devoid as they are o flowers and landscape effect.