AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) SYDNEY WOOL SALES SYDNEY. March 15. At the wool sales an animated market ruled, nil .sections competing, prices being very firm at late rates. All descriptions. except faulty and mi skirted lines, greasy wool and greasy merino sold to 31 Ii police. SHOOTING. MELBOURNE'. March 15. There is cold and wot weather for the first stage of the King's Cup. Six hundred riflemen are participating. I N(,> REST VERDICT. .MELBOURNE. March 15. At the inquest on Martin Ryan, the Coroner returned a verdict of death due to gunshot wounds inflicted by Robeit Lvn Ryan, who was committed bo trial. SHOOTING FRACAS. SYDNEY. March 15. Following a serious guu fight, believed to have been the result of an underworld vendetta. Norman McDonald was taken to the hospital in a grave condition, shot, in the abdomen. He ret uses to give the police any information as to his assailant. The police have ile.inite evidence that another man must have been seriously wounded, but have tailed to locate bim. When last seen be uns with several men wlto bad him on tile floor of a hallway in a house in I'ovcanx Street City, and they were ki< king bin. viciously. The fracas occurred in the Elizabeth Street ciitraiuc to the Central Railway station. A constable in plain clothes endeavoured to assist the wounded man but was driven off by a lusilade ol shots and sought assistance. Two arrests were effected. LA REROUSE MURDER. SYDNEY. March 15. The Attorney-General refused to file the Bill against William Beaton in connection with the Laporousc murder.