AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service• CLAIM AGAINST PACIFIC FT. I EPS. SYDNEY, November 30. The Equity Court to-day granted- the* application liv Kingsford Smith-'-rvwV Elm to have evidence taken in .Sau Francisco on a commission arising out of Keith Anderson’s claim against Pacific fliers. TRAIN SMASH. 15 CASUALTIES- AT SYDNEY. SYDNEY, December 1. There was a sensational train smash to-day near the Central Railway Station. Two trains collided head on. Both of the drivers, and thirteen'passengers, were injured, and majority” sustaining bruises,, cuts and shock, SWIMMING. v '-A SYDNEY, Decern ber ‘J-2/J A Coogee, the women’s halfiryilo swin resulted: Edna Davy 1; jfletty Taw 2; M. Mealing 3. Won by To 'yds. Time 12.542. MUNICIPAL ELETT!ONS. LABOUR’S WEAK SHOWING. SYDNEY, December 1. The first municipal and shire elections m New South Wales under adult suffrage were held yesterday. Labour’s bid to secure all-round control failed. Five hundred endorsed candidates entered the field, but, while they .strengthened Labour’s position at Paddington, Newtown, Marrickville, Bcdfoni, Gh;' e and Alexandria, not one was elected. At Randwick and elsewhere, their showing was unexpectedly weak. They were badly set back in Newcastle.

PILOT’S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. SYDNEY, Dec. 3. An aeroplanei containing T lying Officer D. Carroll and Mechanic Chadwick, flying from Sydney to Melbourne to-day, struck a tree top near Mittagong. Chadwick and a portion of the aeroplane’s tail were left in. the tice. from which Chadwick fell forty feet. He sustained injuries to the hack and a deep cut on his check. The machine continued flying, hut struck another tree and remained among the boughs, sixty feet from the ground. Carroll was tossed out, but his fee* became wedged in the wreckage, and he hung head downwards until he unwound his neck scarf, which h" wound round the tree and managed to right himself. Tie then slid to tin ground practically unhurt, and walked two miles for assistance for his companion, who was in a bad way.

ed the Rev. T). C. Herron, of St