AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(Australian Press Association.) FATALLY MAULED BY SHARK. A GIRL'S HEROISM. (Received this day at 11.0 a m.! SYDNEY, April 5. While bathing in the surf ,-it -Newcastle last evening, Arthur E. L:mc (business manager for Henry Lane Australia Ltd.) was attacked by a shark and severely mauled. He died on route to the hospital.
Miss Lucy Donaldson, aged twenty, was bathing nearby with a girl friend. She sent the hitter for assistance while she herself hurried out to Lane, fifty yards away. Donaldson splashed the water as she neared Lane and the shark was frightened and disappeared. The girl found Lane almost unconscious and dragged him to the shore where assistance was available. The man’s right hand was bitten off and a large piece out of his left thigh, while the calf and shin hone showed marks of the sharks’ teeth. TWO MOTORISTS KILLED. SYDNEY, April 5. Roderick Murchison, aged 22, and his sister, Molly, aged 20, members of a Rose Bay family, were killed while motoring near Singleton. They evidently tried to avoid a hare on the road. The car swerved and struck r telegraph pole with such force that if snapped and hung from the wires. Then the car overturned, crushing the occupants. The hare’s body was picked up nearby.
LIMERICK'S CONDITION. SYDNEY. April 5. The latest reports indicate- that Limerick is almost sure to fulfil his Randwiek engagements. TR \EFIC REPRESENTATIVE. departs. SYDNEY, April 5. Alfred Edwards, superintendent of traffic of the Now South Wales police, who lias been appointed by the New Zealand' Government as a member of the Commission to enquire into traffic problems, sails for Auckland by the Aorangi to-day. WORKERS DECISION. SYDNEY, April 5. The Australian workers have decided not to send representatives to the annual Easter conference of the Labour Party. This means the conference will be under the domination of the Garden section and a definite widening of the breach between moderates and extremists. SHIPPING LINE TENDERS. SYDNEY, April 5. Mr Bruce states a number of tenders received for the purchase of the Commonwealth line steamers have not yet been considered by the Government,
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1928, Page 3
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