AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) GOITRE INCREASE. SYDNEY, June 25. In a lecture under the auspices of tho medical society, Dr I’oate said statistics show the incidence of goitre had definitely increased during the past twenty years. He pointed out also that goitre is much more common in women, and said the present day woman’s endeavour to attract the opposite sex by living up to the standard of the male, he considered, was offering physical insult to the thyroid gland and if modern girls continue their perpetual jazzing, cigarettes, cocktails, nnel quest for excitement they cannot but expect a debilitating effect upon the nervous system and greater prevalence of exophthalmic goitre.” Ponte quoted statistics, colleced at one of Sydney’s lending hospitals, showing the disappointing results obtained by X-ray treatment of ophthalmic goitre, the slow' progress in many cases under purely medical treatment and the excellent results obtained by surgery in suitable eases.

A MURDER. SYDNEY. June 27. The body of William Thorley, 40, a well-known shearer and rabbit trapper, was found under a bridge at Anzac Park, Tamworth, with a gaping wound in the back of the head. Tt was known Thorley had over £2OO in an inside pocket of his vest, when he entered the park and it is surmised the murderer waited for him and attacked him from behind. The buttons were ripped from the vest and the money is missing. The murderer, after committing the crime, apparently carried the body to the bridge and hid it underneath.

H.M.S. RENOWN. MELBOURNE, Juno 27. A radio from H.M.S. Renown received through the Navy Office states the Duke and Duchess paid a valedictory visit to the gunroom and presented to the mess a benutiful silver cigarette box ns a memento from the Duchess and himself. The Renown passed Cape Finisterro and the Bay of Biscay is at present unexpectedly in a genial mood, disturbed only by long, genti'e swells.

SYDNEY .VENDETTA, - SYDNEY. June 20. The underworld vendetta, which recently resulted in the death of Norman Bruhn (cabled on Thursday) is still being waged with unabated vigour. It has been just made public that three girls, their ages ranging from seventeen to twenty-two, were iound by the police on Friday night, aVI suffering from razor slashes on their foreheads, in the form of the letter “ L.” The only facts which the police were able to obtain were that they were accosted bv men, who asked them for money, and when this was refused they inflicted razor cuts, which are indelible. Extra police have now been detailed to the district (Darlinghurst), in which these outrages are being committed, but owing to the extreme reticence of the victims, little Headway can he made with the investigation.