AUSTRALIAN NEWS
WOMAN ROBBED OE £l5O
(Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, May 26,
Mrs Ellen Bruce drew £l5O from a bank, and then placed the money in her 'bag, and waited for a relative in Redferu, where a thief punched her, snatched her handbag with the money, and then escaped.
DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED
CANBERRA, A lay 26
Death sentences that were imposed upon four Aborigines for murder of other natives, in Northern Australia, have been commuted to life imprisonment.
CONSTITUTION AT, POWER S
CANBERRA, May 26
Legal! di flic nil tics will prevent the Federal Ministry from • holding the referendum this year for seeking additional industrial and constitutional powers for the Commonwealth Party. It is possible that a genera] election will he held next year, with the r e fere nd u m simultaneously.
FUTURE POSSJ BILI TIES
SYDNEY, May 27
Sydney E. T. Fisk, managing director of Amalgamated. Wireless Ltd., in a speech at the Millions Club, predicted in the near future it would be possible to use radio to propel ships and aeroplanes: “I also believe in the future with, the aid of ether waves, that we shall be able to communicate with our friends who have departed this life. That is, providing they have an individual existence, as is popularly believed.”
TRAINS COLLIDE,
MELBOURNE, May 27
A stock and goods train collided at Elmore during a dense fog. Both engines were thrown off the line and badly damged. Five trucks were derailed and the crews were injured.
A BIG FIRE,
.MELBOURNE, May 27
Damage estimated at £15,000 sterling was caused by a fire at the Returned Soldiers’ Woollen Mills at Geelong. The scouring and dyeing departments were destroyed.
The Recreation Hall in the same town was gutted with a loss amounting to £3OOO sterling.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1930, Page 6
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