AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Australian Press Association.) , VALUABLE CITY SITE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in.) SYDNEY, July 10. A shop site in the heart of "Sydney, Pitt Street, changed hands at £4OOO per foot, which' is easily a record in city values. The same site ten years ngo was worth about £I,OOO per foot. A COLLISION. MELBOURNE, July 10. A collision between the bay steamer Edina and the tug Hovell at the entrance of Yarra River, resulted in the Hovell sinking instantly. Three ol the crew were rescued exhausted. BOY RUN OVER. MELBOURNE, July 10. Douglas Baker, eleven years, ol Esseudon, whose parents reside in New Zealand was run over by a motor car. His skull was fractured and he is in a critical condition. VICTIM OF OUTRAGE. SYDNEY, JULY 9. The victim of Sefton Park , outrage has regained consciousness but her mind is a blank, and she is unable to give the police any assistance. ENLARGED DOCK. SYDNEY, July 10. Owing to the ever increasing size, ol ocean liners the Government has decided to enlarge the dock at Cockatoo Island to enable it to accommodate liners of' the size of the Union Coy’s new vessel, now building, which will be the same length as the Ceramic, but sixteen feet wider in beam. The dock will he extended to six hundred and ninety feet and width to sixtyeiglit feet;, '