AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 189, 14 September 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

RECOGNITION OF HUMANITY. By Cable.-*-Press Association.—Copyright Received September 14, 12.2 a.m. Sydney, September 13. The Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society presented Captain Holford with pair of binocuhrs in recognition of his humanity towards the Errol survivors. A TAXI-CAB OVERTURNS. Received September 14, 12.25 a.m. Melbourne, September 13. Owing to the overturning of a taxieab, Miss Florence Young, the wellknown acress, had a rib broken. A DEED OF~HEROISM. Melbourne, September 13. Muir, a railway ganger at Horsham,' -performed a deed of heroism while in elroifce of a ballast train, Ooing round a curve he saw a little child standing on the line on which an approaching train was travelling at the rate oi 20 miles an hour. When the engine of the advancing train was within fifty yards of the child, Muir jumped from his train, managed to pick up the child and readied a place of safety before the passenger train passed over the spot. A WOMAN MURDERED. Sydney, September 13. A white woman named May Phillips was found murdered ftt the residence of a Chine.se with whom she lived. Her head was frightfully battered, presumably with si blood-stained tomahawk which was found, Another Chinese, named Ah Sing, has been arrested on suspicion.