AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1929, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SEASHOIIE FATAL ITY. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, March 4. Mountainous seas broke on the beaches with terrific force yesterday. At Bondi, Margaret Purge, aged seventeen, and a companion were sitting on rocks, when a huge wave unshed them into a crevasse. The girl s skull was fractured and she died shortly afterwards. The companion reseived spinal injuries. Two foreigners were swept out by a strong current at Manly 'fully a mile from the shore. Twenty-five thousand watched the surf men battle for over an hour rescuing them. Many life savers and bathers at other beaches were badly knocked about. At St. Kilda beach, Melbourne, M alter Eson was drowned in the rough water. POLICE R ' ID. SYDNE March 4. During the week end ‘he police raided a number of suburb n houses and recovered goods valued a. £IOO. . alleged to have been stolen from two big city stores. Seven salesgirls were arrested and charged with robberies. INFANT’S BODY FOUND. SYDNEY, March 4. v West Maitland message states the police are ,still. investigating tile, discovery of the body of a female infant in ‘the scrub. The body was decomposed and had been attacked by ants. Signs of kicking the earth indicated the child was alive when leit in the bush, the police believing the mother might have become demented. They are searching the locality. TIMBER STRIKE. SYDNEY, March 4. The proposed secret ballot of the timber workers, ordered by the Court to determine whether the men approve of the strike, has not yet begun. The Union is parleying with the Court officials concerning the method of cany-, jug out the Court’s injunction. Meanwhile there is no sign of the strike being settled. MURDER CHARGE. SYDNEY, March 4. Ilarpld/Lever, aged 23, was shot dead at lfun|dbd*.;t6-daly. His father, Josepii. Lever, is held a charge of murder. t The» father and two sons . were travelling plumbers. It is alleged that a, quarrel occurred, and the son was shot dead with a pea rifle on a river where they were camped. FIRE AT BOURKE. SYDNEY, March 4. A large store, refreshment room and a bootmaker’s shop were burned at Bourke to-day. This is the second big are here in a week. ANGLICAN BISHOP’S VIEWS. SYDNEY, Marcii 4. The Anglican Bishop of Bathurst, Dr Crotty, in a sermon, said: “What ti'.e modern youth wants is not so much critics, as example. Parents to-day are preoccupied with material tasks, and do not so much lead their offspring as follow them, with an almost comical gluttony, on their youthful, pleasure hunt. I have no desire to condemn the nvidde-aged to a life of joylessness, but when middle age and old age vacate the throne of moral lead, ership to scramble with youth for the fleshpots of existence, the depths of treachery to God and man surely have Leon reached. The Church, instead of fuming against modern youth, should do something to save it from the things which are poisoning and unbalancing it.”