AUSTRALIAN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 30 December 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

(United Irress Association-^Coryright (Received December 28, 10.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 28. Several lives have been lost during the holidays in surf bathing along the coast. The undertow is particularly dangerous at Newcastle, where two nurses of * the Newcastle Hospital; named Misses Quayle and Bertram, were carried away.

A" man named Martin gallantly brought both ashore, but Nurse Quaylc was dead. _ - Nurse Bertram is in a critical,condition, and is unlikely to recover. Two men were almost lost in a similar ;nianner at tho same spot an hour later. They were resduod in a state of collapse. The General Post Office had such a gigantio volume of Christmas business, that affairs were in a chaotic state. The delivery of post cards, numbering half a million and weighing 4000 lbs., wa* suspended temporarily. MELBOURNE, December 28. Victorian flocks in the Last three years have increased from ten millions to thirteen millions. HAUNCESTON, December 28. Tho yacht Thistle has arrived, but there is no sign of other yachts engaged in the ra-ce. The weather is thick, with a heavy clale blowing. ADELAIDE, December 28. Tho venturesome motorista, Dutton and Aulger, who are dressing the continent, were unable to get beyond Tennawt's Creek, owing to the rain. The\ have abandoned the journey till the wet season is past.