AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.] OUTGO.ME OF DOAIESTIC TROUBLE BRISBANE, April 30. As a result of an alleged domestic altercation Airs Alary Almard was shot twice in the head, and died shortly after being found. Her husband, James Almard. was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound in his itead. He is not expected to recover. He had been unemployed since the building strike. DOAIESTIC TRAGEDY. BRISBANE. A lay 1. James AI ward (cabled earlier) succumbed to bis injuries. He had been out of employment for some considerable time. and. following an altercation with his wife, apparently while in a demented state, he tired the fatal shots.

QUEENSLAND FIR E. BRISBANE. Ala.v 1. A fire at Blackall destroyed lour simps, and tho damage is estimated at Cl 0.000. .MOTOR TRAGEDY. A DEI JVI DE. Afav 1. A motor-ear containing Petty Officers Mays::' and Litigat'd, of the cruiser Sydney, collided with a- train al North Terrace. May see was killed, while l.ingard. who hails from Auckland, was severely injured. STKAAIER ON REEF. lßeceived this day at S n.m.) SYDNEY. Ala.v 2. A wireless lure been received that the Royal Packet Navigation Company’s steamer Tasman, from Java to Brisbane, is ashore on a submerged extension of Clarke Island, Torres Straits. The steamer lioutman is standing by. The captain reports no danger. FURTHER PARTICULARS. (Received this day at 9.0 a m.'t SYDNEY, .May 2. The steamer Tasman has aboard twenty-six passengers, and a hundred of a crew. The vessel lies on a soft coral hod. and is in no immediate danger. It is reported that an unattended light on Clarke Island has been extinguished over a week and warnings to shipping have been issued by the Queensland Government Navigation Department. The steamer lioutman, of the same line, made an cllorL to render assistance. but the depth of water was not sufficient to get close enough to enable hawsers to lie put aboard. I 1 RACEHORSES LEAVE FOR N.Z. SYDNEY. May 2. The racehorses Limerick and Battlement. with their trainer, F. D. Jones, and jockey. AlrCarten, leave for New Zealand on Friday next. Lausanne, Palota. Count favour, also a number of yearlings leave lor New Zealand

COM A! ON WEALTH LINE. SYDNEY. May 2. It is reported the Federal Government have decided to sell the Commonwealth Steamship Line as a going concern. to a private company operating li'iim London. SYDNEY’S. DELUGE. SYDNEY. April 20. The Duke and Duchess of York are prol.iilily wondering if the term "Sunny New South Wales” is not .something of a misnomer. They returned to New South Wales from Queensland, ami left for Tasmania, alter visiting the Royal Show, in torrential rain which drenched Sydney to the skin. On their journey from Sydney to Queensland the sun shone only when they reached the border and left New South Wales behind, and it hid itself behind vast, masses of scudding black clouds shorts ly alter they left the lornuv State on their return to Sydney via the North Coast. It was either raining or threatening to rain during the greater part of their tour of New South Wales. The real acid test, of Sydney’s loyalty. however, was provided on the final day in it of the Duke and Duchess. Sydney had never before in till its existence looked more miserable. It was a deluge from daylight until dark, and for long afterwards. It looked as though the floodgates of heaven had been opened wide to let the Duke and Duchess see exactly how it could rain in Sydney. Countless thousands of people, however, waited for hours in the downpour to get a final glimpse of the Royal couple. If there is not a magnificent outcrop ot colds and influenza as the result of it, it, will he a miracle. The Duchess smiled bravely through it all.

dear eggs. SYDNEY. April 20. Eggs are again a luxury in Sydney. Just before Easter their price over the counter was 3s Id a dozen. Ibe Housewives’ Association, an aggressive body, which brought down very effectively the price of potatoes some time ago, threatens to declare war on the price of eggs if the authorities do not stop in. Why the jire.selit price should he demanded for eggs is puzzling the community The attitude of the housewives, through their Association, is that they are presumably being called upon to make good the loss of about £60,000 which is reported to have been incurred on the export trade. AA bile furthermore, they have no complaints against cold storage eggs, at a reasonable price, they ieel very strongly that they ought, in this respect to ha protected by legislation, and that cold storage eggs should be plainly marked as such.

One Sydney newspaper says, rather cleverly, that the goose that lays the golden egg is not in ii to-day with the goose that buys one, at existing prices. ‘‘The ordinary fowl’s egg.” it adds, ‘is to-day an exotic delicacy. The trouble is, we have grown too used to eggs. AYo have used them too familiarly. AA'o have been coarse about them. It pictures the day when Sydney used to grab savagely at its breakfast egg and crack it with absolute contempt, and contrasts with that period the present day when eggs are peeled gingerly, and when every chin of the shell is worth money.