AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] SYDNEY TRAGEDY. SYDNEY. Jan. 7. To-day an inquest was held on the deaths of Dr Paling and his mother, who were found poisoned at their home cm December 11th. Evidence was given that Dr Paling had been worrying some time over the condition of his mother. She, and not he, as previously stated, was tho invalid. The doctor told a friend tho day previous to the tragedy that the only way out was to end it. The Coroner found that, while suffering from a temporary mental aberration, Doetor Paling administered cyanide to bis mother, and then committed suicide with the same poison. THE AOEAXGI. SYDNEY. Jan. 7. Tho liner Aorangi arrived at 4.45 p.m. to-day from Auckland. ACCIDENT TO PREMIER. ADELAIDE. Jan. 7. The South Australian Premier. Mr Hill, while waiting Tor a lift at the Treasury Buildings. pUred Ins right hand on the outer grill, and the* lift descending, badly crushed two of his lingers. newspaper tan. SYDNEY. Ja.il. 7. In the High Court, the Chief Justice referred to the application, made by the newspapers for an interim injunction against Premier Lang’s newspaper tax to the Full Court at Melbourne on the Ist. February. The Chief Justice decided that, as this was a Finance Act. it was not a matter for a single Judge to deal with.