AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3, 4 January 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

SAILOES IN AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT. CHIEF JUSTICE ONSLOW AND HIS ACCUSERS. MURDER AT CHARTERS TOWERS. THE CASTLEMAINE FLOODS. 'UNITED PBKBB ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 4, 1.10 p.m.) Sydney, This Day. The three-masted schooner Baster encountered a severe gal« off Gabo Island, and was dismasted. As the vessel was laden with dynamite and the stamp of the mast was grinding amongst tho detonators, the crew took the boats and abandoned her, fearing that an explosion would occur. Tho Buster was insured in the South British office, and a vessel has been sent to search for her. Perth, This Day. The Imperial Government have ordered the Executive Council to determine the merits of the petition of the West Australian newspaper impugning Chief Justice Onslow's impartiality. It is considered here that the Home Government have practically ordered Judge On slow to be tried by his enemies. Brisrank, This Day. The drought is being Beverly felt in New Guinea, and there is a scaroity of food. It is, anticipated that a famine will result during the year. A Cingalese named Peter has been murdered at Charters Towers, and two persons supposed to be conneoted with it have been arrested. Adelaide, This Day. There is an alarming spread of oodlm moth among the orchards. Melbourne, This Day. During the floods in Castlemaine district many houses were washed away, and the oocupants, who had a narrow escape of their lives, had to take refuge in treog. The Fitzgerald Brewery, on Winter's Plat, was flooded, and it is estimated that the damage will amount to .£lO,OOO. The Campaspe River roße 23 feet, but is now falling. The Czar and Czarina, « THE RECENT RAILWAY ACCIDENT. | UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION.] St. Petersburg, 2nd January. It has been discovered that the recent accident to the train conveying the Imperial family, whereby some 20 lives were lost, was the result of a deliberate plot, concocted by dismissed railway officials kdA. the Nihilists. Many arrests have been made. The mental depression of the Czarina is increasing.