AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

A FIERCE STORM

(Australian Press Association)

(Received this dav at 11 a.m.) PERTH, March 10

A fierce electrical storm swept the south-east egricultural districts and caused extensive damage to crops, houses and fences. A strip of country twenty miles long by five miles wide was laid hare.

At Pengelly a hundred miles an hour "ale swept the town, unroofing houses, raging fences, and hundreds of trees. Xeai’Vv every home in the district suffered damage. Many creeks were flooded by torrential rains and are running bank high.

At Narraben, thirty chains of railway has been washed awav.

BOY SHOOTS GIRT

SYDNEY, March 10

Repulsed in his persistent endeavours to persuade Maisic Thompson, aged fourteen, to accompany him to a dance, James Harvey, aged sixteen, drew a revolver and shot the girl through the chest at her heme in the suburb of Hurstville. The hov then fled and was later found dead in the scrub v itli a bullet wound in his temple. The girl’s dying depositions have been taken.

MONEY TRANSFERENCE COSTS, SYDNEY, March 10.

From to-day there will bo an increase in the cost of transferring money from Australia to London. The trading banks have decided to raise the premium charged by 20s per cent making the rate for telegraphic transfers 101 s2d per €IOO. For all other usances a similar increase has 'been fixed. Buying rates also show a rise of 20s per cent.

ESCAPEE RFCAPTURED. SYDNEY, March 10

John King, the escaped prisoner, has been rear ms ted. When starving and ill ho called at a homestead near

Tam worth anil was persuaded to pi'o himself up. SEIUOFS 'FIHR. March ID. A serious fire in Lewis and Coy’s three-storey building caused damage estimated 'at £IO.OOO. A sinister feature of the outbreak was when the firemen attempted t.o use the hydrants in tlie building they round to be turned off. The fireproof steel doors were wide open allowing ihe draught to fan the flames.