AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) EDUCATION LECTU RER. SYDNEY, Feb. 4. According to a cable received by the Vice-President of the Teachers College from the Carnegie foundation for the advancement ot teaching, Doctor James Earl Russell, who for a long time was Dean of the teachers college at Columbia University, New York, has accepted an appointment as visiting Carnegie professor to Australia and New Zealand. He will lecture on education subjects on Ins visit. VICTORIAN RETREXCHA[ENT’. MELBOURNE. Feb. 4.

Speaking at Wa trail am boo I in regard to railway retrenchment. Premier Hogan said the railway department and closer .settlement activities bad become financial catastrophes. The State was losing a million sterling on these activities. Motor competition was a serious thing for the railways.

The Trades Hall Council decided to seek a conference with the Parliamentary Labour Party to advise tlie railway’s union to bold stop-work meetings till all men dismissed were reinstated. There is much opposition in union circles to the retrenchment proposals. MURDER AND SUICIDE. BRISBANE, Feb 5. In response to 'a telephone message, Janies Lomax went to the home of his friend, Lewis Holden Maynard, aged sixty-seven, at Bundaborg. When lie arrived there Maynard said: “I have just shot my wife and T am going to shoot myself. Watch |” Maynard then placed a pistol in his mouth, fatally shooting himself. Lomax informed the police, who found the dead liody of Maynard’s wife, Alice, aged fifty-five, on the floor with bullet wounds in tli eliead. Maynard, who at one time was Mayor of Bundaberg. has been in indifferent health for some fime.

STORM DAMAGE. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 0. A severe wind and thunderstorm was experienced in the Rivcrina district during the week-end for the second time within a few weeks. Mho township of Henty was flooded. Two inches of rain fell in half ail hour and considerable damage was done to roads at Yerong Crock. Tse tornado unloofed several business houses and telephone and telegraph lines were blown downi. At Nranqiiiiitv roofs were lilted nil sheds and trees uprooted. Paddocks were badly scoured and fruit trees suffered much damage. A cloudburst near Carobimilla, causing forty-five chains ot railway to lie washed away. EARTHQUAKE AT WELLINGTON. SYDNEY, Feb. 6. An earthquake at Wellington caused people to rush on to the streets. Windows were broken and plaster shaken from ceilings. obituary. SYDNEY, Fob. 6. Obituary.—David McKee Wright, poet and journalist, formerly of Nelson, aged 61.