AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1929, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

THE NEW Bai\K. AUSTRALIAN CAMPAIGN. (Australian Press Association). (United Service). SYDNEY, Dec. 31. The Australian and New Zealand Banking Corporation, Ltd., capita! £5,000,000, with head offices at Auckland, has been registered in Sydney, whence a campaign is being started to secure underwriting, which has already been generous in the Dominion. A further two or three millions are expected to bo obtained overseas. In fact, it is stated, negotiations for this have been practically completed. GIRL OVER CLIFF. ALLEGED ALTERCATION WITH YOUNG AIEN. SYDNEY, Jan. 1. An eighteen-ycar-old girl. No!a Rowley, fell over a cliff at Echo Point Iv-toomba, early in the morning. A search throughout the day proved fruitless. Three men assert that they saw the girl go over after an altercation with young men of a party o 4 * which she was a member. It is alleged that they wanted her to go in a car, but sin* declined, and. according to eye-witnesses, declared that if pressed she would go over tin* top. She clambered over the protecting rail, aad before the would-be rescuers eoulti prevent it had slid over the face of th, cliff.

FUMES IN WELL. BLACKSMITH AND RESCUERS OVERCOME. ADELAIDE, Jan. 1. Schultz was hauled up nearly unconscious, hut ma mured to indicate U”' lie had tied a rope round one of the • .*.'.*m«. This was hauled up with Sunt: attached. A youth named Donald Xosworthy previously made a gallant h'lt unsuccessful effort to rescue the men, but was beaten by the fumes and was pulled u]) unconscious. The bodies of Crooks and Farley were later recovered by firemen, who used smoke helmets and oxygen supplies. It ’is uncertain whether the explosion was due to fold air, similar to sewer gas, or fumes from a nearby petrol bowser. Farley was not smoking and carried no light.