GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 20 March 1926, Page 9

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

TSy Cable-Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. AiELBOURNE, Alarch 19. John O’Neill, formerly secretary of the Victorian branefh of the Seamen’s Union, has been nri-ested on a charge of embezzling £617, the property of the Union. AIELBOURNE, March 19. Arising from the appeal by the Young Alen’s Christian Association against the assessment by the Federal Income Tax Commissioner for tax on moneys received, the High Court decided that the Association was a religious institution, and therefore exempt from income tax.

SYDNEY, ■ March 191 Visitors to the Jenolan Caves have been in the habit of throwing coins into the underground in hopes of rediscovering them at the outlet. Attendants have now recovered several years’ offering from the water. They totalled £427, mostly in copper? and small silver, though there were also ten sovereigns.

The money was distributed among the local hospitals.

' SYDNEY, March 19. ; Duke Alwyne, at one time’ a prominent racehorse, 'a. winner' of the Newcafjfc’e Cup, in which he established a record, and also the winner of other events) over all distances, was sold at the West Alaitiand pound for 4s. The old horse was found wandering in the streets.

Mr Jewell, who was his owner in the palmy days, arranged to purchase the horse, which was destroyed.

m r , SYDNEY, Alarch 19. The jossjjs found iu. the Wellington Caves also inciudo bones of the marsupial wolf, and those of some extinct and existing species of the kangaroo tribe.

, Scientists describe the diprotodon ns the largest marsupial known to science, bigger than the full grown rhinoceros, while the pouched Hon is not much smaller than the existing lion. Sir Richard Owen describes it as one of tile fiercest and most destructive of beasts.