AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10282, 10 July 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

! WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP SPRINT. WON BY HOLWAY. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) SYDNEY, July 8. The world's championship sprint drew an attendance of 20,000 spectators. All three of the contestants got. away together. Postle was the quickest to get into his stride, and he soon had a slight lead, which he increased to two yards at the hundred yards mark. Holway, putting in a fine finish, gradually overhauled Postle and won easily by a yard. Taylor was three yards behind Postle. GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. MELBOURNE, July 8. The result of the Grand National Steeplechase is as follows: — Coifiide 1 Leah Kleshna 2 Grafnax 3 All acceptors started. Confide won by five lengths. Grafnax was' four lengths behind Leah Kleshna. Time, 6min 41$secs. MNRDER AND SUICIDE. SYDNEY, July 8." A wonvm named Collins, of Waterloo, while suffering from melancholia, fatally poisoned herself and her infant. A FAMISHED MINER. SYDNEY, July 8. A man named Parr was rescued from a mining shaft at Wyalong after being without water for seven days and food for eight days. He fell a distance of 35ft on to a soft bottom, but was uninjured." He made several unavail- ' ing attempts to ascend the shaft, and eventually lost his voice through want of water, and was unable to attract atr tention. On the seventh day rain fell, and, regaining his voice, he shouted for assistance, which arrived. Beyond weakness, he is little the worsb for his adventure. FATAL BOXING BOUT. FREMANTLE, July 8. At a boxing tournament, a--youth named Wooding was knocked down in the sixth round of a contest by another youth named Edge. He was removed to a hospital, where he died. Edge, and six others of the principals, have been arrested.