AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1929, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

MISSING .MAX ’I CHNS UP. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, .March 11. Leslie Williams, aged 2:5 years, an electrician, whom the police believed Lo have been murdered, and whose car was found abandoned at Donnybrook (in Victoria, on .January 29th.) has turned up, and he is now hack with his parents at Eastwood, a suburb of Sydney. Mis father, who is a Stipendiary Magistrate, told reporters to-day that his son was unite well, but he declined to he interviewed. A detective is. however, interviewing him. A New Zealander (a swii»ver) was arrested after the disappearance, on suspicion. He claimed to have had a fight with a man in a car who gave him a lilt, and whom he did not know. He was later released. There were bloodstains on the car when it was found. MISSING MAN’S STORY. (Received this day at 9.20. a.m.) SYDNEY, March 12. Leslie Williams (cabled yesterday), told the police:—“J can remember being in company with Y'iscoe, who was arrested in connection with the case, but 1. cannot remember how I got to Melbourne. 1 remember giving Y’iscoe a lift in the car and there was a fight but after that my memory is blank.” EEPOII TED PROSECUTION. SYDNEY, March 12. It is rumoured at Canberra that the Federal Attorney-General contemplates the prosecution of colliery owners for causing lock-outs of miners. Official confirmation is lacking but in* (jiiiries have been made into the allegations of the miners that a lock-out occurred at West Maitland. MURDER CHARGE. SYDNEY, March 12. Florence Sams, twenty-one, was committed for trial on a charge of murdering Ronald Sams, her six months old son by abandoning him in the bush. A PROPOSED FACTORY. (Received this day at 10.30. a.m.; * SYDNEY, March 12. A factory for the manufacture of steel and iron pipes is likely to be established in Newcastle district before the cud of the year. The capital is stated to lie upwards of a niillon sterling. STEAMERS TO LAY UP. SYDNEY, March 12. Six coal carrying steamers will be laid up during the week in Sydney, as a result of the strike.