OUTRAGES IN QUEENSLAND

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19890, 20 May 1936, Page 8

OUTRAGES IN QUEENSLAND

CHAMPION HORSE SHOT. SLASHED WITH A BAYONET. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. CocyfUrht. (Received May 20, 3 p.m.) BRISBANE, May 20. At the Ipswich Show, Mr H. D. Reisenleiter, in announcing the scratching of his champion Glydesdale mare Meadow Bank Phyllis from a competition, stated that she had been deliberately shot in one of his paddocks toy an unknown trespasser. The horse had 'been shot at close range. Two bullet wounds were found near the shoulder blade and the foreleg. There was also a gaping wound near the heart, apparently made by such a weapon as a bayonet. The mare, which was imported from New Zealand in 1934, cost 350 guineas, and was female champion at the Brisbane Royal Exhibition last year. OTTAWA AGREEMENTS. MATTER OF TERMINATION. QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT. (Ofllclal Wireless.) (Received May 20. 3 p.m.) RUGBY, Mav 19. Mr Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary for the Dominions, was asked in thd House of Commons whether invitations had been, or would be, issued to the Governments of the -countries concerned in the Ottawa agreements to attend a further conference, with a view to continuing those agreements in the same or another form. Mr MacDonald replied that the agreements between the United Kingdom and the Dominions concluded at the Imperial Conference at Ottawa in 1932 did not terminate on any given date, and each agreement continued in force unless at any time after February 19, 1937, six months’ notice of denunciation was given by either party to it.

The most convenient method of dealing with questions arising out of the agreement was now under discussion between the Governments affected. In view of the United Kingdom Government it would be most appropriate to proceed by way of discussions with the individual governments as occasion offered, and they had brought this view to the notice of the Dominion Governments.