AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1930, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

DEATH SENTENCE. PASSED 1 ON FATHER. (Australian PreßS Association.) /■Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 28. The trial has concluded of William Schubert j 50, a labourer, on a charge of murdering his daughter, May Doris Schubert, aged 14, near Newcastle, on December- 10th last. Schubert whoso defence was that the girl poisoned : herself owing to her condition, was convicted and sentenced to death.

BLASTING ACCIDENT. TWO MEN KILLED. SYDNEY, Nov. 28. A blasting accident causing the deaths of Martin Cochrane and William Smith occurred at a quarry at Macleay River on the North Coast tonight. The victims were terribly mutilated. A third man, Frank Rangi, was injured. TWO RACERS KILLED. PERTH, November 28. Two prominent race horses were killed during training, the hurdler Goodhope and Jemidar. The latter, New Zealand bred, won the Perth Cup at at 5 years. , UNKNOWN MAN. SHOT FOR BURGLAR . MELBOURNE, November 27. Hearing a crash of glass at the front door of her home in Burnley, a suburb, in the early morning, Mrs Whittington called out to her husband: “Quick, Dad! There’s somebody trying to break in. He has a revolver!” Her husband, William Whittington, then seized his son’s gun and fired through the leadlights. An unknown man fell dead at the front doorstep. The man had no revolver or house-breaking implements in his possession. His body awaits identification.

SHOT MAN IDENTIFIED. A BIG CRIME RECORD. (Received this dav at 9.40 a.m.l MELBOURNE, Nov. 28. The man shot, cabled last night, has been identified as Frank Ellis, whose crime record is a long one, with convictions in several States and New Zealand. COMMERCIAL. MELBOURNE, Nov. 28. ' Wheat 2s sd, 2s 6d, flour £8 Os 3d, £8 fib, bran £4, pollard £4 15s 4d, oats Is 9d, 2s U, barley, English, 2s 3d. maize 4s Id.

bright prospects. SYDNEY. Nov. 28. Tlie manager of the Ooniptoir National Deseompte De Paris and VicePresident of the French Chamber of Commerce, Mr A. Spitzcr, arrived at Sydney and said Australia had bright prospect* of raising money abroad when Mr Scullin arrived from England but the actions of an extreme wing of the party has done much to destroy the country’s credit. France had learnt her lesson regarding inflation. The advantages did not last very long then the country would find itself in a. worse state than before. hunger strike. BY IMPRISONED COMMUNISTS. SYDNEY, November 27.

Four out of the batch of imprisoned Communists whose case was cabled on November 20, have given up their hunger strike. The remainder are continuing it, and are now under medical control and they possibly may be forcibly fed.