AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1928, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) WRECK SOLD. (Received this day at 10.15 a.mA SYDNEY, June 22. The White Bay wreck has been sold for £22 10s. BROADCASTING FEES. SYDNEY, June 22. An attempt by the B class broadcasting stations of Australia to secure portion of the revenue from listeners licenses which is confined to A class stations has failed, but the agitation is to continue. At least forty-one additional applications were registered for B class stations. OBITUARY 7 . SYDNEY, June 22. Obituary—Jobs McCaugliey, the only remaining brother of the famous pastoralists.

PECULIAR CAR ACCIDENT. SYDNEY, June 22. During a fierce fight on the waterfront between seamen and waterside workers arising out of tlie cooks strike, a motor car ran over and killed one of the combatants. The driver was menaced by the crowd, abandoned the car and escaped in a taxi. The dying mail experienced great pain while liis companions were crudely trying to set a badly .broken log. A BRUTAL OUTRAGE. NEWCASTLE, June 22. A dreadul outrage was committed last night on a hoy of seven years. He was sent to buy a newspaper when a mail with whiskers enticed him into a lane where he brutally outraged him and then heat him until lie was black and blue, with his belt.