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NEAR AND FAR
NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS
The business places cf Coraki ara
closed from Thursday night to Tues
day morning.
Through falling from a horse, Mr. J.
Rodgers, junr., of Pamlico, broke his
collarbone.
At a meeting of the All for Aus
tralia Leag.ue to be hold on Tuesday
it "will probably decide to embrace
country districts in the movement;
In the Impromptu Speech at the
Queensland Eisteddfod at Maryborough
(Q.) on Saturday night Miss E. John
ston (Lismore) was second. The Mad
rigal contest "was won by the Brisbane
Eisteddfod Choir.
A Sydney message states that Charles
Palmer (19) was drowned while swim
ming in a creek at the rear of Wattle
Grove Farm, Mount Druitt, yesterday.
The body was recovered some hours
later.
Replying to a Trades Hall deputatiou
in Melbourne on Friday, the Minister
in charge of unemployed sustenance,
(Mr. Williams) said that a new plan
which would . operate from Monday
would increase Lhe amount for relief
from £1'2,0Q0 to £15,000 a- week.
Mr. George Best, 73, who died at
Parkes on Wednesday, was "well known
in trotting and coursing circles. He
was a breeder of a number ,of trotting
horses, some of which are now trotting
(Ui metropolitan courses. He was a
noted country athlete in his youth.
Mrs. J. D. Young, wife of a well
known Berry sawmiller, had her leg
badly broken when she fell in the yard
at her home. As she was some distance
away from the house sho, could not
attract attention, and she lay in great
pain until a* passing farmer saw her
and came to her aid.
"The Laughing Jackass and his
relatives" will be a chat by Mr. D. G.
Stead from 2BL, Sydney, at 3 p.m> on
Friday next, when he will speak of
this most popular of all Australian
birds. Its habits of life will be dis
cussed, and also those of the Butcher
Bird and Kingfisher.
For the second time in four years
fire destroyed the Mount Irvine saw
mill, owned by Mr. P., P. Scrivener, pi!
Waiialda. The mill was temporarily
closed down, and no one was on the
spot when the blaze was discovered
at 3 a.m. . All efforts to gain control
of the flames were unavailing.
A lorry returning. from Canberra
went over an embankment 80ft. deep
near Araluen. It rolled over, and
struck a tree. . The occupants were
thrown out. The driver, W. Hoskins,
received bruises, A. Coppin cuts on
the head, D. Coppin injuries to the
back, and Nevin Kennedy minor in
juries.
Mr. T.: Meade, of South Arm, recent
ly sent iO bags of maize by the fruit
train from Murwillumbali to Sydney.
The maize was sold for £.4 5s Id, but,
as the rail charge was £4' 18s Id and
cartage 3s, Mr. Meade lost heavily on
the deal. A protest is to be made to
the railway authorities against the ex
cessive rail freight,.
Clem Toovey, two and a half years,
of Greaves^-street, Maylleld East, New
castle, was drowned in a waterhole in
a Chinaman's garden at Mayfield East. .
The little boy had gone with his father
to buy vegetables. While the father
was talking with the Chinaman, the '
child - wandered away, and his dead
body was later found floating in tlu
waterhole. 1
An important question, dealt with by
te New South Wales Council of Agri
cultural Associations at the. annual
meeting on Friday was one regarding
the registration of all aideshowmen,
and it was decided to refer the mat
ter to the executive committed again,
with instructions for such members to,
meet sideshowmen and draft suitable
, regulations.
j When Mrs. Ethel Porter, 60, of
Frederick-street, Rockdale, collapsed
and died in the ladies' waiting-room at
Sydney railway station mi Friday eveiU
ing, her sister, Miss Minnie Bellf orward,
collapsed from shock. The women were
taken to Sydney Hospital by the Cou
tral District, Ambulance, where Miss
Bellforward was admitted. .The body of
Mrs. Porter was taken to the. Morgue.
Immediately after the Maitland' coft«
vention. a strong campaign will be
launched in the north for signatures to
a petition to the Federal parliament,
praying f®r the admission of New Eng
land into the Federation. This will be
opened at , Tamworth on Thursday,
April 9, by Mr. Bruxner, M.L.A., and
Mr. Thompson, M.P. "
Speaking . on " The Framework of
.Australia " at the inaugural meeting of
the Sydney University Geological
Society in Sydney on Wednesday, Pro
fessor Sir T. W.NEdgcworth David said
that the recent finding of oil-bearing
rock in Gippsland, Victoria, had led to
the discovery of an artesian basin,
which showed great promise of extend
ing over a large area of the driest ,
part of the State.
Mr. Frank Webb, aged 73 years, was
found dead on the side of the road
leading to his home four miles from
Molong on Friday. He had left town
on the previous afternoon. A horse at-
tached to a cart was found wandering
on the road and a search revealed the
body. Evidently Mr. Webb had been
bumped out when the vehicle went over
a rut. The body was bruised as if it
had been dragged along by the reins
of the horse.
A motor car driven by Duncan Mc
Lean, of Hurstville, overturned on tha
Forbes road near Tichbome. The oc-,
cupants were thrown, out. Mrs, Mc-'
Lean, wife of the driver, suffered
severe scalp wounds. Mrs. James •
Thompson, a resident . of Tichbome,
suffered a fractured skull and scalp(
wounds, and has since died from her
injuries. A son and daughter b- - .
Thompson, who were s.1 so in the car,
escaped uninjured.
The following have been appointed
to prosecute' on behalf of the Crown at'
the sittings of the Supreme Court at
circuit towns :—Mr. Clive. Raleigh
Evatt (Dubbo, commencing on April
21), Mr. William John Dignam (Mait
land, commencing on April 21), Mr.
Frederick Witton Berne (Grafton, com
mencing on April 8), Mr. John Sydney
Clancy (Armidale, commencing April
4), Mr. William Francis Patrick
I Sheahan (Deniliquin, commencing on
April 15). -
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