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WESTRALIAN TRAINS. PASSENGERS ARRIVING. , (Australian Press Association) ADELAIDE, March 3. ‘Railway passengers who have been stranded at Forrest, have been transferred to a train and are expected to airriyo v at Adelaide 'on Tuesday night. 'English mails also have been transferred. One hundred and thirteen passengers from Adelaide who have been waiting since last Tuesday to get to Western Australia are expected to reach Kalgoorlie on Tuesday. PRISONER HANGS HIMSELF. / BRISBANE, March 3. After being recaptured following a thrilling escape from the police, William Webster hanged himself in Goondwindi .police station. Webster jumped from a moving train while under escort last week, but was caught in the scrub near the New South Wales border. SYDNEY, March 3. A message was received from Auckland to-night ; saying .Dr Hughes, medical officer here was unable to understand the statement emanating from the‘chief quarantine officer here, cabled on Saturday, to the effect that nineteen passengers on the Aorangi were found to be not vaccinated in accordance with Australian regulations. Questioned about the matter to-night Dr Metcalfe said the vaccinations at Auckland were carried out. along lines approved but the passengers were unable to understand that Australian regulations required that at least fourteen days must elapse before they could be raleased, subsequent to the New Zealand vaccination. This iiad caused nuconception. Dr Metcalfe added in reference to cppiplaints against' the quarantine station, cabled this morning, that a committee of those detained were preparing a statement completely repudiating the allegations. i : / ' ROUND THE WORLD; ON A WALK. SYDNEY, March 2. /nthony Gerard Ormond, aged 26 years, a New Zealand, native, began a. Avalk round the world yesterday, starting from the Sydney General Post Office at three p.m. He has taken •ph/v hiur tr -toii of--confidence. He - walks rbund Australia and then round New Zealand, after which ha goes to the Islands. He has estimated that, tho trip ' will occupy seven years; l:
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1930, Page 3
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