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.Received this day at 11.25. a.in.) SYDNEY, February ID.
Obituary.—Robert .McMillan, aged SI, a journalist famed throughout Australia and other parts of the world. Me was a member of the old Stock Station Journal staff and one of the foundation members of New South (Vales Journalists Institute.
GUILTY OF MURDER
MELBOURNE, February 19.
Thomas Macon, aged 37, was found guilty ui the murder of .Mrs D. Ledger, cabled on 3l)tli November, with a recommendation to mercy. He was sentenced to death.
N.S.W: STRIKES
SYDNEY. Feb. 19
The timber strike is dragging on. There were more pickets outside the yards to-day, the Union fearing employers intended to utilise free labour.
The coal situation is unchanged
The Prime Minister intends to give Parliament a chance of discussing the position this week, if the mines close.
The Bavin Government is confronted with the problem of providing food relief aggregating twelve thousand sterling a week.
JOCKEY’S DEATH. MELBOURNE, Feb. 19. Tlie cross-country jockey, Richard Goul, 24, died to-day after a fall in the Warren Hurdles at Caulfield races on Saturday. He rode King David which blundered.
TIMBER YARDS BURNT. PERTH, Feb. 19
Banning Brothers, Limited, timber and joinery yards at Most Perth were destroyed by fire. The damage is esti. mated at one hundred thousand sterling. The* blaze was seen for many miles
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