AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5416, 24 June 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Per Wakatipu, at Wellington.]

, A sensational incident occurred in New South Wales at the execution of an aboriginal. In consequence of the agitation for a commutation of the sentence the sheriff was expecting a reprieve up to the last moment. Tho criminal was noosed and the hangman was waiting for the word from the sheriff. Just then the bell at the gaol gate rang, and the sheriff thinking it was the messenger with the reprieve uttered an exclamation. The executioner either really thinking 1 or pretending so think that it was the word i he was waiting for, pulled the bojt of the.

few?\ Sheriff was terril >ly scared. | P S?' ever,that tliere ™ no B^ ce o S n Pren?e OUrt ' at Mney, Mr fntSkS^'k 01116 !^^ practice after an absehce. through illness received the hOvS^ l6^ c **** <* re! opVery f ,> He>l-ba6 to speak in renlv $' ' , 8 *° nemaß P, n and his family,. a mass of stolen property from the neighborhood. '■' -■••-.■ •'.;•; ■;..-. j*?<*.,.i : A curious instance of mismanagement occurred in Sydney in connectioiwiththe ..opening of .the .polish plddblskmif rS< r oun S, the.'W^deh, had f measured the claim, and the men had set ; ™ .*°™ wken an . order arrived ,from the - Minister to order the' men b u t; to fiw^ran official proclamation, of, _the> ground a month feter. The <M.d& afterwards 'rescinded,, j ■ , ; J- . >- ■ "■'. * ; A miserable thief jnainectikatsbf^wlS .condeinnM'at the Sydney Bolide Court t0 ,. . .three .months' imprisonment 'f Or stealmg L * .the bttttet.awaiting the Sunday oharitaMe breakfast for. the indigent poor, of which he had frequently, partaken.,, •_ Ihree new morning tfagers' are an- ' ™iwuS }° a PPMf On July Ist _„ tind, Coiirier at ldfiW& l l Mi? AM* 1 Mackpy, of Sandhurst,; Victoria, &&&% '- oiMe.Tetegrmh. IXZ • £ $F?? a ? na^.Hall,vof f .Ohio,;a member^ i ; of -the Society M Friends,' iwho amve&in|< . ;Sydn<ey by the : Sa- Friancisco steam..^ -Is ._" about to hold a meeting .' to .'expoiindiVner* 3 views. In the Queensland Assembly a.ti&Btiapri tion was;moved to the effect r that'iiSsoo6i be placed on the? estimated aste MbhWiofr* the first 500 torisbf marketHbleJirbtt! -pro -.•<'*? fducedfroni'.Qiieeiislahd ; '6rL. THr &&>* of the depresse-d state of :the iron rT ' .other. parts. of the world.- -..''if Z S ""^ ' l * A r nian named Brannely, Idnoloi-f '#" the Cntenqn Hotel,^Brisbane,^ksobee^;^ arrested on a. charge of mansiaughte^vtnA^ causing the death of his>!infantjrt.hild ■■;& .through negligenoe and' lack roffinourisß? Af -ment.' _ 07 j--.-.. ; yAr;,~ A^ 0 i^ii^W ■- . The; Victorian Cricket Assboi^tiW^tS'^ be dissolvedahd a .new;^sbciatioh^6?fii4'd! ;o under amended rules!' l • nSi -' u v(07o \zr>u r i Th^Melbourhe tigelig'oWngodr®} ffi 0 column's* "7"' : A ' " V - ■■ a ' l 'fw' , » , | "*•■•".' - !<■ '■;■ '■■ '■' - t '.': s 'iL<x> cut: iuo-.l km os?