MAIN TRUNK LINE BLOCKED.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1918, Page 7

MAIN TRUNK LINE BLOCKED.

SLIP AT MANQAWEKA. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Taihape, June 22 A slip occurred on the Main Trunk Line this morning between Mangaweka and Utiku. All traffic is stopped. A clearing gang is being sent from Taihape. The magnitude of the slip is not known here, and the authorities cannot say when a clearance will be-made. i AUSTRALIAN NEWS. | . » | THE' MINING DISASTER ' Brisbane, June 22. The body of W. Barnes, manager, has been found in Wright's, mine. He had evidently been drowned. The other man, Dredge, is still missing.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assoc. MURDER BY ABORIGINES. Received June 23. 5.5 p.m. | Melbourne, June 23. | The Administrator of the Northern Territory reports that a stockman named MDonald was speared to death by wild aborigines. A police party ] pursued the aborigines, who rolled stones j from the mountain. The police shft seven dead and arrested one. The ver- < diet at the inquest was that the shoot- . ing was justifiable in self-detfence. PRESS REPRESENTATIVES FOR BRITISH TOUR. Received June 23, 55 p.m. Sydney, June 23. j The list of newspaper men visiting ! England is now completed. Mr. Henry, editor of the Sydney Morning Kerald, goes as a representative journalist generally, Major Whitehead, editor of the Stawell Times, representing the provin- I cial press. ~ ' j