AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1928, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

HUSBAND ARRESTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association). SYDNEY, Oct. 24. As the sequel to the exhumation of the woman’s body (cabled this morning) Alister Jcimer Clark, aged 24 years, lias boon arrested and charged with the murder of Ella May Clark on December 12th. The woman had been in hospital for throe months. It had not been reported that the end came suddenly.

The' accused is a successful city business man. Ho was remanded.

AIRS TRAPMAN DISCHARGED

SYDNEY, Oct. 24

Mrs Trapman (cabled 9th October) was /discharged, the police abandoning the case. The second husband of Airs Trapman now awaits trial on a murder count. I /

HURLEY’S FLIGHT. , ‘ SYDNEY, Oct. 24. Hurley’s flight to London begins at dawn on Sunday. /

SPRANG A LEAK. (Received this day at 11 a.m.) , MELBOURNE, Octobej- 25.; The wooden steamer, Hillmeads, sprang a leak in Bass Strait; -. The holds were flooded and the crew had lost hope when a pilot steamer, came to the rescue with the - tug Eagle and toWed the Hillmeads into Port Philip Bay. ■ ' . , ~, ' • The Iron Barbri steamer was the first to notice the Hillmeads plight and sent a radio to the lighthouse keeper.

AVATERSIDERS RESOLVE

MELBOURNE, October 25

The waterside workers and stevedores have decided to boycott the second pick-up prescribed by judge Dpthridge. There-is also great objection to preference being given to volunteers. A« ipass meeting off waterside unionists to-day will consider- the latest developments. • .

CIRCUS TRAGEDY,

TRAPEZE ARTISTE’S DEATH

(Received this day at 11 a.m.) ’ MELBOURNE, October 25

Valina Schultz, aged 25, the-trapeze artist at Wirth’s Circus, failed properly to grip the hail'ds qf another woman artiste who was swinging by the legs in midair from-a trapeze.' Miss Schultz struck the wall, jmissed the safety net, and fell into a corridor, a., distance of thirty feet, and she was killed in the presence of hundreds of spectators.

ABORIGINALS. ' SYDNEY, Oct. 25. '‘ Dr, William,- . Warner an eminent American anthropologist, who conducted an investigation and study of Aus-, trafian aboriginals, declares that aboriginals here, are doomed to extinction in a very short -time. There was no place in, Australia where, a. white rot could not be found. Tire effects of white settlement upon their civilisation was disastrous 'and resulted in social chaos and physical decay. Nevertheless the aboriginal was endowed with intelligence' equal to that of the wnite- race. . . ,