Late Australian News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 140, 7 October 1896, Page 4

Late Australian News.

r Kvknjno Post.] Tlic jamming of two pieces of rock prevented a miner from being smothered at Broken Hill on the 25th ult., though he was covered with ground for about three hours. Mr Adam Johns, a mining expert, who had been living in the Northern Territory (S.A.) for 23 years, was killed through a buggy accident on Thursday. The West Australian Turf Club is spending a further sum of £2OOO in improving the Perth racecourse. At the inquest at Deloraine (Vic) on the body of the late Superintendent Cameron, of the Police Force, who died suddenly, a verdict was returned of arsenic poisining, self-administered. During August 958 diseased animals and pieces of meat were condemned at the abattoirs, dairies, and other places in New South Wales. Evidence taken at an inquest at Broken Hill showed that blood-poison-ing, causing death, followed the refusal of the deceased to allow a broken arm to be amputated. It is claimed that the law relating to diseased stock is more rigorously enforced at Albury than in any other part of the world. Some farmers on the Clarence River, N.S.W., have discarded cane planting altogether, while others are planting a small area only. A ballot for land just taken at Urana, N.S.W., is said to have been the largest which had ever taken place in the world for land. Messrs Murray Bros., of Murrayville, N.S.W., have secured a contract for the supply of 2,500,000 ft of sawn timber and piles for the New Zealand Public Works Department.