AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
GENERAL ITEMS. ' l\ r I'ir.ss Afsiiriutit'll.—<, Melbourne, April 7. The Executive has commuted the death sentence passed on Phillips for the murder of Brady to penal servitude for 20 years. This day. The statement that Phillips has been committed for twenty years proves to be premature. It has transpired that the Cabinet considered the case yesterday, but it was decided, owing to the absence of two Ministers, to postpone the decision for a week. Sydney, This day. Unprecedented dry weather prevails throughout the country, and in many districts water is running short and stock and crops are sufferiug. News from the East is to the e fleet that the Spaniards are unable to keep down the rebellion in the Phillipines, and are asking for 8000 additional troops. Large numbers of the native troops are joining the rebels, who have plentiful supplies of firearms. Perth, This day. A notorious native desperado known as •' Pigeon." who was implicated in the recent murdtr of a settler named Jasper was shot dead by the police.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 292, 8 April 1897, Page 3
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