AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1927, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) TIIOROUGHBRED DEAD. SYDNEY., Oct. 3. The thoroughbred sire, Valais is dead. Although heavily insured, its death will mean a loss ot many thousands sterling to its owners. SYDNEY, Oet. 4. The “ Herald ” says Valais’s stock up io 11 10 present season has won .C 171,970 sterling. A record price or 5.5(10 guineas for a yearling in Australia was paid for one of his eolts from C'urrante. Another colt by him from Glittering Gold realised 4,000 guineas. The present owners paid 14.000 guineas lor him. RIFLE MEETING. SYDNEY. Oet. 4. The -Metropolitan District Rifle Club’s Vnion eight hours’ day meeting was held at Liverpool in wet weather. Sixteen New Zealanders competed, a number of them securing small cash prizes.

FLOODS. MELBOURNE, Oct. 4. The floods in Gippsland are spreading. The Latrobe River, which is nornialiv a chain wide, is now tlnee miles across. All residents have removed to high ground. Losses of stock are heavily increasing. SYDNEY DELUGE SYDNEY, Od. 3. The rain to-day spoiled the Eight Hour Day holiday celebrations. Tt started with a heavy thunderstorm, and torrents of rain, in tho morning, and there were frequent showers till the afternoon. The usual street procession for which elaborate preparations have been made in view of the early N.S.W. general elections, and also the annual sports, were postponed, and ufT the other outdoor fixtures and excursions, excepting the Rnndwick races, were abandoned. The attendance at Rnndwick races suffered materially as the result of the wot weather. Further splendid rainfalls are reported from the country.

FALL OF 230 FEET. SYDNEY, Oct. 1. A youth and a girl had an almost incredible escape from death on the afternoon of 13th. September, when a single-seater car. in which they were travelling, crashed through the cliffside protection fence overlooking the Bogey Hole- at Newcastle. "Now South Wales, and fell 230 feet on to the wave washed rooks lielow. Although seriously injured, both were reported to he making satisfactory progress, and! there is good liope of their recovery. Their names and injuries are: A. H. Wools, aged 10. fractured skull and severe shook. Molly Campbell, aged 18. frnetured pelvis, injuries to the head and hack, and shook.

Wools was teaching Miss Campbell to drire. and the girl had control of the steering wheel. The car was brought safely to stop within a fenyards of the cliff fence, and Wools told the girl to pnt the engine into reverse, in order to make the turn without coming too close to the edge of the cliff. Mot being familiar with '-the goers, howerer, ‘Miss Campbell put