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SYDNEY HEAT WAVE. (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 23. Sydney is at present in the throes of a heat-wave. The terrific heat and humidity yesterday caused the deqth of a man and. the collapse of thirty others, RACEHORSE MYSTERY. LIKELY EXPLANATION. SYDNEY, December 23. The mystery of the disappearance, some months ago, of the well-known racehorse Violian is likely to be explained by the finding of a horse’s skeleton in a bush near Tumberumba. It recalls one of the most sensational turf cases in Australia, where three men were charged with ringing in Violian and a pony novice called .jPowcull and acquitted The animal has been dead some months having been shot through the head. AUSTRALIAN SKINS. FRENCH ORDER STOPPED. MELBOURNE, December 23. Mazamet, a fellinongering town in the. south of France, which buys the bulk of Australia’s sheepskins has decided to stop buying Australian skins until the export duty has been removed. This was stated in a cable to the Chairman of the Federated Sheepskins Exporters Association. WAR VETERAN’S DEATH. SYDNEY, December 23. Obituary—Duncan: Allan, aged eighty, who. enlisted at the age of sixtytwo and fought at the side of his seventeen year old grandson in Fleubaix affair, constituting two Australian and an Imperial force records.
KINGSFORD SMITH. DENTES FLYING REPORT. V SYDNEY, Dec. 23. The cabled report from San Francisco that Kiugsford Smith contemplates a. non-stop flight from America to Tokio for a twenty-five thousa.nd dollars prize is denied by iSmith wbo is at present honeymooning in Tasmania. He adds that there is no machine suitable for such a flight.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1930, Page 5
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