COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2756, 10 March 1910, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

A SHOOTING TRAGEDY

United Press Association— Copyright ADELAIDE, March 9.

A Portuguese named Bonella, atNurioopta, being jealous of the attachment of -a girl aged twelve, named Norma Plush, for another person, fired an ineffective shot- while the child was reading. Then after a struggle with the girl’s mother he fired a- second and fatal shot. He has been arrested.

FLOODS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

The country is flooded in many parts.

ELECTRIC EIGHT PROFIT. MELBOURNE, March 9. •f The net profit of the City Council’s electric lighting last year was £17,898. ' THE DAY TRAGEDY. At an inquest cn the body of Mrs. Day a letter from her, addressed to the Chief Commissioner of Police, was read, in which she accused her husband of wrong-doing with her step-sister and intimated her intention of putting an end to the condition of tilings, adding that some people would say she was mad. Rose Woodward, the step-sister, admitted being in love with Day. She stated that on the night of the fire deceased woke her and led her to. the dining-room, apparently trying to throw her on the fire. A verdict was returned that deceased was mentally unsound. Day has been discharged from the police force for joining in the name of his brother, because he was over the regulation age. AN INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE. (Received -uarch —, 9.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, -March 9. Messrs Hoskins, proprietors of the ) liihgow iron works, were fined thirty guineas for a breach of the Industrial Disputes Act in discharging several employees for refusing to work on Pay Saturday. Defendants admitted the breach, but claimed that it arose from a misunderstanding and was afterwards rectified. SERIOUS EPIDEMIC OF DIPHTHERIA. (Received March 10, 1.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 9. There is an epidemic of diphtheria in Sydney and suburbs. There were 37 fresh cases last week, and at present 73 cases are in the coast hospital, and there are many in the. other hospitals. Several cases of the outbreak have been traced to the milk supply. ,7 YPANESE WARSHIPS TO VISIT AUSTRALIA. A Japanese collier, with bunker coal for the visiting warships, has arrived at Sydney. STEAMER FARES DOWN AGAIN. The Inter-State. steamship companies announce a reduction of 25 per cent an account of the increase of fares impwod when the coal strike commenced.