AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1928, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

KOOWERUP SMASH. STATEMENT BY PORTER. Australian Press A 3sn.—United Service MELBOURNE, December 26. An enquiry into the Ivoowerup railway accident obtained a statement from a porter named Haw, aged 22, who it is admitted having pulled the wrong lever, which caused the accident. Only four of the injured persons now remain in hospital. DANCE HALL TRAGEDY. POLICEMEN SAVAGELY KILLED. MAN ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. MELBOURNE, December 26. Constables Browne and McCullough arrested two men under the influence of liquor at a dance hall. The men resisted violently and twenty other dancers came to their assistance. The policemen were thrown to the ground and savagely kicked. Browne's baton was wrenched from him, and. he drew a. revolver. The men again, rushed at him, and during the struggle the gun exploded, and William' Kraesst was shot dead, and another man was wounded. AIRMEN CRASH. TWO KILLED. MELBOURNE, Dec. -27. After spinning several times in the air at a height of three hundred feet, a Moth aeroplane nose dived . and crashed at Essendon. The machine instantly burst into flames and Brian Rhodes, aged 24, the pilot, and Alfred Heaton, aged 18, a passenger, were burnt to death. The flames were so- fierce that the machine was almost in ashes before spectators reached it. It was impossible to extricate the bodies of the victims until the fire died down. Rhodes was regarded as one of the cleverest pilots in the Melbourne section of the Aero Club. The scene of the accident is a remote area of grass paddocks and ten minutes elapsed before people arrived.

CHARGED WITH MURDER. MELBOURNE, Dec. 27. Phillip Pope, who disappeared after his brother was shot on Monday, was found by the police at a picnic ground where he had just participated in a race. He made a statement concerning his wanderings since his disappearance. He was later charged with having murdered his brother. DOUBLE DROWNING. PERTH, Dec. 27. When Allan Nicholson, 35, got into difficulties while swimming in a railway dam at Durrecoppin, Wm. Street, 25, went to his assistance and both were drowned. The bodies were recovered later. £IO,OOO FIRE. SYDNEY, Dec. 26. A Griffiths message, states that, a store and premises owned by W. Carney were gutted by fire. The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO. The fire brigade, which was inaugurated last week, but which did not officially start duty until the New Year, turned out and rendered every assistance. BRAWL ON WATERFRONT. MELBOURNE, Dec. 26. When unionists manhandled a volunteer labourer, a body of volunteers retaliated. Sticks and bottles were used freely, and the unionists were being overcome when the police arrived on the scene and quelled the fight. This was the first outbreak on the waterfront for several weeks.

N.S.W. AVIATION SMASH. SYDNEY, Dec. 26. Keith Anderson, piloting a Ryan monoplane, with three passengers, landing at St. Mary’s Speedway to-day,-ran into the channel. One wheel was stripped and, the machine was severely damaged, though the occupants were unhurt. BLOOD STOCK MARES, (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) SYDNEY, December 28. Percy Miller, of Kai Ora Stud, Scone, has purchased the following brood mares for T. Lowry, of New Zealand—Pepper Mint, Orofino, Tall Talk, Alarum, and Lovelock. s>"‘ ’ '