AUSTRALIA.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13105, 2 May 1908, Page 9

AUSTRALIA.

TJnited Press Association-—By Eloctrio Telegraph—Copyright. ACQUITTED. MELBOURNE, May 1. lies has been acquitted of murdering Mrs Graham at Ballarat on December 30th. [Tho Ballaxat tragedy has excited great mtefesfe The decomposed body of a ■u'oniaiEJSw.as found down aci abandoned *i(naft, and the medical testimony was to tho fact that the injuries to the head were co eevere that they could not have been caused by the fall. It was some time before tie body was identified as that of Mrs Graham. Iks liad- been on friendly terms -with the dead woman, and admitted having been in her company on December 22nd, and having pawned a ring of hors. He left Ballarat a,nd went under an assumed name.] A.M.P. SOCIETY. (Received May 2nd, 12.51 <v.m.) SIDNEY, May 1. At the annual meeting of itihe A.M.P. Society the chairman's address disclosed a highly satisfactory year's work, which was a record. The industrial branch was now firmly established. The rate of interest increased during the year by fourpence. The receipts over expenditure amounted to £1,032,000. THE MURRURUNDI icCIDENT.

Tho evidence of itlhe STgnaime-u concorned in the Murrurundi rail-way accident showed that the semaphore frequently (foiled to return to its posSbion wheni the lever wae released. He had demonstrated this to the superintendent. He had also celled the stationmaster's attention, .to the faulty working of the signals.