AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1927, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) MURDERS BY MOTHER. BRISBANE. Aug. 31. In a demented state, a. woman at Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, is believed to have attacked her husband and two children, cutting their throats with a razor, while they were asleep in the early morning. Then she cut her own throat. A girl of eight months died. A bov was seriously injured, hut. the husband ahd wife were only slightly hurt. KADGOORLIE MURDERS. PERTH. Aug. 31. Evan Clark, who was concerned in tile murders of I lie two detectives at Kalgoorlie last year, has, by the judgment of the High Court been granted £IOOO for the information given by him leading to the conviction ol tiemurderers. SYDNEY MURDER. SYDNEY. Aug. 31. McPherson was found gulity to-day of fiic murder of Martha Qoiu. He was sentenced to death. N.S.W. POLITICAL SPLIT. SYDNEY- Aug. 31. Mr P. J. Minahaii, formerly a prominent Labour Member, of the New South Wales Parliament, statc-s that ho has left the Labour Party, which now was controlled by Communists, and that he will oppose the Premier, Mr Bang, |or the latter’s seat at Auburn at the forthcoming State elections. RAILWAY STRIKE. BRISBANE, Aug. 31. Tlio outlook for a settlement of tho •Queensland railway strike is ominous. The Australian Workers’ Union, at a meeting decided that the Government’s ultimatum meant that unionists would be forced to work for nonunionists, and therefore decided to support tho Railway Union in a fight. Apparently there is no hope of a settlement of the dispute.