AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. TELEGRAPH BUSINESS. (■Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, Marcli 12. A report of the Postmaster-General discloses broadcasting wirelessed news caused a decrease of four hundred thousand words in telegraphic business last your, compared with the previous year. IN PAPUA. SYDNEY, March 12. C Kanins, assistant resident magistrate at Papua, is visiting Sydney. After an extended exploration tour he and another white official made through portions of unexplored Papua. spending several months fighting through the most difficult country, encountering many dangers, enfolded by fever and shortage of food, the expedition definitely established the fact that Sepik, Ely, Pofiver and Strickland rivers all have sources in mandated territory within a few miles of each other. SHOT T!Y CONSTABLE. SYDNEY. March 12. William Henry Wilks, international snfebreaker and burglar was shot dead by a constable at Manly. W ilks and a confederate were seen about to break into tea rooms at North Steyne. His companion escaped but after a chase over fences, through backyards, lanes and streets, Wilks produced a revolver and fired when the pursuing constable closed with him. hut the shot missed. The constable then fired a bullet reaching A\ ilks’ heart and he died immediately. LORRY ACCIDENT. SYDNEY, March 12. Two were killed and thirty-four injured, some seriously, when a lorry got out of control descending Bull! Pass. The driver realising he was unable to take a sharp turn ahead turned the lorry up the. embankment. Tho dead are John Thomas and Gertrude Fern, both of Bed fern. Sydney. . CAR FATALITY. MELBOURNE, March 12. A head on collision between a taxicab and a motor car in the city resulted in the deaths of John Eraser Firth and Wallace Hyde, both of St. Kilda. Four others were injured, two in a serious condition. FIRE DAMAGE. MELBOURNE, March 12, A fire in a drying kiln at Panlook Brothers hop garden at Kurobin caused damage estimated at £25,000. POLICE OFFICER SHOT. PERTH, March 12. Police Sergeant Alexander Murk died as the result of a shot in the abdomen received while trying to arrest Edward Nicholas Kelly. I lie latter, lias been charged with murder. DEATH ON 11.M.5. DUNEDIN. (Special to Press Assn, by Radio.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) APIA, March 10. A member of the crew of H.M.S. Dunedin lost his reason and died on Thursday night from wounds received while being secured. An inquest is proceeding.