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COMMONWEALTH AHD NEW
ZEALAND NEWS.
Two youths James Dwyer and Thomas
Faggo, were out shooting at South Wood-
burn on Tuesday. At dusk Dwyer (said he
would go home, but after having walked a
short distance he decided to wait for his mate,
and eat down; Hearing- Faggo approaching
he stood up, and Faggo, mistaking him for
a wallaby, Tired, Dwyer was eliot in the
head'and died soon afterwards.
The trustees of the Felton Bequest have
purchased for the Melbourne National Art
Gallery Mouet's "Rough Weather Retreat"
for £1,250, Sisly's "Straw Eicks" for £750,
and "Baudiu's "Havre Harbour!' for £160.
The "Westminster Gazette" states that
the New South Wales' 4 per cent, loan of
£1,000,000, issued at £97 10s., is going off
well and that the underwriters will prob-
ably get out of it.
;The People's Stores in Gouger-atrect Adel-
aide were entered on Thursday night and
goods valued at about £200 were removed,
Samples of oil discovered in Papua by the
<3 o vernnient. search party were forwarded to
the Department of External Affairs some
weeks ago for analysis. The results of thc
analyses were encouraging, - but the quan-
tity of petroleum submitted was not con-
sidered to be sufficiently large, and^fresh
samples have been sent to the Government
analyst.
Another patient, Chas, Davis, aged 28, cf
the Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, has met
his death through leaping from one of thc
balconies. Since the previous fatalities, cer-
tain, of the balcony railings have been height-
ened by wire netting. Davis, "however, cs-"
caped from a. ward during, the nurse's ab-
sence, climbed over this wire protection,
and fell to thc ground, nearly 30 feet below.
He died a quarter of an hour later. He
was Buffering from pneumonia.
The number of tenders received for thc
New South Wales 4 per cent, loan of
£1.000,000 offered at £97 10s. was 600..The
total amount applied for was £453,000. and
.the underwriters take 59 per cent, of the
In connection with the robbery of jewel-
lery valued at £250, which took »lace in
Little Napier-street, Fiteroy, on Friday af-
ternoon, detectives, this, week . arrested
Richard Walsh, aged 39, od a charge of hav-
ing stolen a leather bag, containing jewel-
lery valued at £250, the property of Thomas
Hogan,
Burglars entered the People's Stoles in
Gouger-st., Adelaide, on the 7th inst., and
i removed gooda "*o tíié value of £200./ The
safe, which contained about £200, was not
¡ tampered with.
A fire, which/raged for & couple pf hours -
on' Monday, -destroyed, : a' largo . build-,
Jug afc' Johnston's Bay, Balmain, occupied
\>V'.*:the Tfeihier Pigment' Proprietary
JJanufacturing Co. and by John Sands, Ltd.,
j« a jiaper. atore. .-The buïldmg; which was
«ii tho^vater front, was-highly Inflammable.
?Qnlm$fc áíftlcuity: wa* the fire, pteventeä
tfflafàpfi&iihùrtia «xteWvetfjtaUittäfö*«
-tories ?and kimber denote. The dámagé ii
'«tómatca At close fen £20,000. >Ï: .£.?^
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