AUSTRALIAN NEWS
WANDERING WOMAN. FOUND IN BUSH. (Australian Press Association). (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) BRISBANE, August 12. Mrs Bottrell, who was found on Friday after' wandering in. the bush . for' fourteen days, following her disappearance with 7 her ■ five y«wr eld child, was. identified by her husband. The child was .found' soon after ,her disappearance with the top; off the head blown! awuy. The woman's mind is still blank. She has a wound on the forehead -probably; caused by a bullet.' She remembers nothing of! her except waking up , . with blood on her clothes and t-eing followed ly dingoes and wild pigs.* WELCOME N.S.W. RAINS. 1. SYDNEY, August 11. Heavy rain has fallen oyer a large ' portion of . the country '.except in the ■Noifth-West 1 of-New South'| Wales.. There have been moderate falls ’in ■ tile wheat'belt, which raise hopes for good wops. The State • Meteorologist forecasted , a wet week-end *generally, except in the far North-West, where the condition of the scattered settlers is piti- ., ; able, the rainfall there , being 7, much. ;> below their needs for the past decade, and almost nil for many months past. ' SYDNEY RAIN STOPS, SPORT. , SYDNEY; August fcflw £ On Saturday; the Rosehill Puny races and various other sports within the Metropolitan area were postponed on account of heavy rain falling... . < COAL SHORTAGE.V ; IN TASMANIA,'. ' ’ ‘ . \ HOBART, August 11. Industrial troubles! on the mainland are seriously affecting tliie worth coast limestone quarries of Tasmania, which are only employing jof. theiv normal number of, hands and they may be forced to close down. / The shortage of coal also threatens iv drastic - curtailment of The rail- - • way services. , •
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1929, Page 5
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