AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1929, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

A JUDGE DEAD. (Australian Press Association) (United Service.) BRISBANE, Jan. 19. The death has occurred after several weeks’ illness, at the age of 68. of Justice. John Laskey Woolcoek, of the Queensland Judiciary. Ho will lie given a State funeral. NATIVES ATTACK CAMP. SYDNEY, Jan. 19. A Port Moresby message states that a State officer was attacked by natives near Mount Yule while making camp. Shots were fired over the heads of the attackers without effect. The officer then ordered his boys to fire into the attackers and two natives were killed. A.shower of arrows was-fired into the cam]) and a large body of natives concentrated for another attack. Attempts to parley were made by the officer, but arrows were again thrown a him. After a fight last for three hours in "'lnch another native and one of the defenders were killed, the attackers withdrew. YOUTH INCINERATED. HORSES BURNED TO DEATH. MELBOURNE, January 20. Richard Murray, aged 18, an upholsterer employee at Tooraok. was soldering a four gallon tin of methylated spirits, when an explosion ignited his clothing, and he became a human torch, and was burned to death. The shop was set on fire, and two horses were roasted, and six motor ears, four hansom cabs, and three waggonettes were destroyed. MOTOR DISASTER. (Received tin’s day at 8 a.m.i SYDNEY. January 20. A motor-ear containing a family fell over a cliff at St. Albans near TJawkesbury river to-day. Mrs Daisy Pitliers was killed and her husband and four children injured. MELBOURNE, January 20. Mercantile crew on Saturday won the four-oared championship of Victoria on the Yalta by two lengths from Banks crew, Ballarat third. In the sculling championship A. Cambridge of Bendigo was first. J. Hardy second. DISASTROUS FIRE. SYDNEY. January 20. A disastrous fire occurred at Burnley List night. Weymouth electrical works I were practically gutted, with 1*60,000 damage. •. Fireproof doors partially saved the valuable plant. CROSSING TRAGEDY. BRISBANE, Jan. 20. At Toowoomba Airs Edward Perkins, while crossing the railway, got her shoe heel wedged in a rail point. The crew of an oncoming train failed to notice her plight, and frantic signals, and she was killed. Her husband is manager of Perkin’s Brewery. Brisbane.