COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 26, 24 September 1912, Page 3

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

' A. DEMENTED MOTHER. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Brisbane, September 23. A boy aged two and a girl aged three were found dead in bed at Bundaberg, beside their mother, Mrs Budgen, who is suffering from poisoning and is in a precarious condition. A tub of water was found in the room, and the children appeared to have been lifted from it. Mrs Budgen escaped from Bundaberg hospital and drowned herself irs the river.

MISER'S DEATH. Melbourne, September. 23. James Frawley, aged sixty-five, a bachelor, residing alone in poor surroundings at Ballarat, was found dead in his house. A £I3OO deposit receipt and a quantity of cash was discovered in his coat pocket. FEROCIOUS FOOTBALLERS. Sydney, September 2'). Recently a heated argument occurred between the Woolloomooloo and Paddington "pushes" >as to the rcspectiee merits of the footballers Messenger and McKivat. Paddington, who supported McKivat, were worsted in the debate. The police forestalled an intended resumption of hostilities by appearing in large numbers at the expected scene of battle. The weaoonrof the belligerents comprised bottles, gas pipes, loaded whips, dumb-bells, and one revolver.

WAR RUMOURS DISCREDITED. Sydney, September 23. The inferences drawn from the Gazette notice by mariners are considered in many quarters to be idle. The Navigation Department denies that they indicate the immediate laying of min'es. The managers of two German liners declare that the extra coal story is absurd as far as they are concerned.

FIRE IX BRISBANE. Brisbane, September 23. ' A fire at Messrs Groth and Company's oil and paint manufacturing premises in George street to-night, scorched the roof of the Empress Picture Theatre, next door. Groths' three

storey building was gutted. The dam age is estimated at £40,000.