AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2065, 26 June 1896, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

The proposal of the Australian cricketers te visit New Zealand is likely to fill through owing to the fact that such arrangements interfere with the year's intercolonial fixture, the payers not being able to get batffc to their re&pe,ctiire colonies in tiftw-—Heavy rain and jnt.ensely cojd ■v&\i%&. »v* Jj*ini?p*paHfiftce(l in tfcfl <toasta] I* i» stormy a»d dirtf, and shipping■ a#f faUm to sbel&>r. There has bean tha heaviest fro$ f * and snot? in ih« SoQ&hmi Wcatern H»*W»i»ls- experienced far many years,. 6 to IS iwhan Trceg ate, broken bj $b« w%.b\fc, aud tsitb tb?, Soutli and wifh tire wJonws ia blocfeet?. A pe&alkr fea'taw m that in mftny thg fiio.^ , F$ by severe thiißiTerßtwfnff. Bfeo&Jc i.ssyfferFng ba?%, and Uwgfc »tnttjbep» nf are perish?nsr.«-i A, sensa.Uftnal alHptor $tor'<y, verified by thfl re»ifte»| tfl-'.e&iott&ry,.6owfisi from Tub Inland, Kew Goinea. Tm itvisfionsry reptirt? th*t t}>© tjaU7o vilt*ge, where he resides is. livi« : sr in mortal fear of a monsier allignior, which hfts talvoi): arr its permanent qnarters.on the reefs .ac'joitiinj? the missionary station Three of their number have recently f*Uen victims to the monster. Two young-prills were disporting: on the r«?f when one jumped on the other's back. The aWteator made a dash, seized both in his jaws, and made off. The natives ebased in canoes, and after two hours' h\intiner, the father of one of the girls managed to wrench the mntil&ted body 6f his daughter from the monster's mouth. The body of the other was subsequently recovered. A few days late? a party of natives were fishing , from s canoe off the reef when the alligator sprang at them, overturned tbo br>at, and made off with one of the occupants. His body was found next day amongst the mangroves.