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HAPPENINGS IN OTHER STATES
NEW SOUTH WALES ;
Two severe earth tremors, each i
over a few seconds, were experienced i
at Yass on Saturday. No damage was
reported. |
John Parsons. 31, of Corlett street, !
Cooks Hill, was killed, and six men j
were injured, when a motor lorry j
capsized near Newcastle on Saturday
night. i
A boundary rider on Merriangah |
station, near Bombala. on Saturday, j
j found the body of a man identified as j
| that of John Jones, 60, a gold fossi- j
i ker. He had been dead about two !
months.
Mrs. Dorothy Cotham, of Hurst -
ville. was seized by a thief ami held
under a blanket while his companion
rifled her cash box and took £15 on
February 8. The thieves then
escaped.
Damage estimated at £60.000 was
! caused by a disastrous fire in Foster
House, Foster street, Sydney, early on
Saturday. The top floor was destroy
ed and the first floor considerably
damaged by fire and water,
j Damage amounting to £10,000 was
caused by a fire which swept through
the whole of one side of a main street
in Trundle on Saturday. No water
was available to check the flames,
which swept through the dry weather
board buildings with fearful rapidity.
. At Epping mechanical coursing
meeting on Saturday, W. Gray, owner
and trainer of Bonnie Johnnie, with
the dog, was disqualified for 12
months. Some time before the Forest
Lodge Stake, for which it was nomi
nated. Bonnie Johnnie vomited some
meat.
John King, restaurant-keeper at
Parkes, was fined £35 for having kept
bis premises in a filthy condition.
Evidence was that on the premises
were found bad eggs and oysters,
cobwebs and spiders, and in the yard
the skin of a goat, fowls' legs and de
cayed vegetables.
The fifth electrocution in Sydney
within a few weeks occurred on Sat
urday when George H. Deakin was
killed in the garage at his home in
Reginald-street. Bexley. He touched
an exposed wire while examining the
engine of his motor car with a hand
lamp, attached to the ordinary house
hold supply.
Thomas Brown Webster, aged 37
years, until recently town clerk at
lane Cove (N.S.W.), pleaded guilty
at the Darlinghurst Sessions to a
charge of having stolen Common
wealth bonds to the value of £4350.
He was sentenced to imprisonment
with hard labor for one year and 11
months.
John Gibson, a middle aged man,
living in Excelsior Flats, Curlewis
street, Bondl, was mauled terribly by
an 8 ft. grey nurse shark, 60 yards
from 4he beach at Bondi on February
8. Half a dozen surfers raced to his
assistance, but, although the shark
did not again attack him, Gibson, with
; his thigh stripped to the bone, died
I within half an hour.
Before the eyes of a woman friend
who intended to make a flight with
him, H. A. Appleyard, a New South
! Wales Aero Club pilot, was so seri-
! ously injured at Mascot aerodrome
j on Sunday when his plane nose-dived
| and crashed from 200ft., that he died
i in hospital the same night. The flight
! was a short trial spin preparatory to
| taking up the passenger. The plane
was wrecked.
In an attempt to give a 19-years-
old Lidcombe girl a new pair of ears
— completely burnt off when her
clothes caught on fire — surgeons at
St. Joseph's Hospital, Auburn, may
| carve the aural cavities either from
the girl's own flesh or from that of a
donor. Four times a week she lias to
sit in a salt water bath as a process
in the stage of healing, and it has
been necessary to carry out five skin
grafts.
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