AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1929, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

AIM 15K A COX. WANTED £lO FEET 111 CM. (Australian Cross Association) SYDNEY, Jan. 29. A proposal to oroct an air beacon Iwo limidml and thirty loot above tln* street level has boon made to the civil aviation authorities, by the owners of the new State Theatre, opposite the Tanners’ Emporium. in Sydney. Their object is to assist night flying, its advocated by Commander Kin^slord Smith. The Slate Theatre is one hundred and fifty foot h full, and it contains above tlie theatre a vast shopping block, v/hi.-h is almost completed. 'l'he air beacon to be erect of I on top. would be visible for twenty miles at night. It. would cost £IOOO. Authority to erect tin* beacon is now awaited. M AZOK* SMASH INC. NEWCASTLE. January JO. John .UcKeown, aged JO, was committed for trial on a charge of having maliciously iiuTicted grievous bodily harm on William AlcQuirk (cabled on I.7th January). A doctor in eviden t stated thirty stitches had to he inserted in the wound on Ale Quirk’s farwhich was an inch deep in places. MATH I .MO MIA K TANGLE. IRtceived this clay at 12.25. p.m.) SYDNEY, Jim. 30 A eurjous matrimonial tangle is reported from Newcastle. In IPIS, a man married a woman whose first husband was reported killed at the war. There were two children hv the second union. Then news came that the first husband was still alive. A divorce followed but after the decree was made absolute it was discovered that the first husband Was wrongly reported to be alive, and had without doubt died before the second marriage; Kor the sake of the children, the divorced husband desires to ifcmarry but the woman refuses to consider the idea. WOOL STORE BURNT. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 30. A lire which gutted one section of the wool store of the Australian Wool and Produce Ltd., Botany, caused damage estimated at 1*30,000. A large quantity of fine scoured wool was destroyed. Thousands of people witnessed the Maze, the majority being in night attire. During the height of the fire two firemen were injured. A great heat was generated and galvanised iron was writhing and crumpling like tin foil in the white hot interior. A NEW JUDGE. CANBERRA, January 30. The Prime Minister (Mr S. M. Bruce) announced that it had now been decided to appoint Owen Dixon, K.C., of Melbourne to the High Court Bench in succession to the late Justice lliggins. ENQUIRY INTO SHOOTING. CANBERRA, January 30. The Prime Minister lias received a report from Smith, Administrator of Papua, upon the shooting of three natives on December l-tli, when a patrol came into collision with natives near Alt. Yule. The Assistant Resident Magistrate Grist held an inquiry. He expressed the opinion that the firing appeared justified, no blame being attached to the police. FLIGHT TO ENGLAND. SYDNEY, January 30. The “ Herald” says Kingsiord Smith and Ulm will begin their flight to England in the Southern Cross in three weeks time. The ilight objects are to set a time record and in order to hasten arrangements for the shipping from Europe of aeroplanes to be used in the Melbourne to Brisbane air service. ARSENIC IN DAMPER. SYDNEY, January 30. At Inverell, as ail aftermath to a cook’s tragic mistake in putting arsenic in damper (cabled on 25th) a second mail, Patrick Proud foot, died in the hospital. The third victim, Donnelly, is still in a critical condition.