AUSTRALIAN.

Inangahua Times, Volume XIII, Issue 20595, 28 December 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[BY ELEOTRIC TELEGRAPH -COPYRIGHT.! UtfTRD Pbrss Association. Re Jived Dec. 24, a 1 1/20 a.m. Melbol'Rnk, 20. The plunger ease of ili« pump af. tinMaryboiough mine fell down flic *lmft vi.d killfd a miner nami-rt Wlimlluck, vi. other named Giaoie wan carried BO

feet under water and drowned, besides ! which several men were more or less ! scverly injured. ! The German, Gartner, who shot the man Brown in Flindera-st, on November lii, was sentenced to five. y»ars pe»al servitude. Received Dec. 26, at 1. a.m. Sydney, 25. It is expected that the new cable between Java and Wrstem AuM-j^lia will be in working onh-r about F«-b- i raiy nr-xt. | Wer.tworth house nnd hotel were destroyed by fire this morning. Two lodgers niimcd Armstrong and Caulfield, whiUt endeavoring to ♦•scape from the i! uneg by v window ffll to tho pavement below, v dNtanoe of GO foot and wor<i kiled. Received Doe. 25 at 7, 45 p.m. i AuKL.vinE, 21. Lindsay, explorer, conlimis the statoiiH'nt recently made as to the existence of mi octiv*- volrano to the north of Lake Aw^dens. liindsa) locatis tlie moiintiiiii at nhont 200 miles north-wt"»t of Alice Sprinp;«, the ttle•frapb «fi»tioii on tin* overland line to Port Darwin, and states that tin* I nalivr-s Bf»y|' Its growU " andthrows up sto»K and sjnd. BmsnAXP,, 25. ' Tlttr Government nsont, n.unod Armstrong, bolongin? t«> the labor n«cmting schooner Ariel, wan decoyed ashore at Matayta, and cnt to piecrs by the natives. Received Dec. 25 at I n.m. Sydxky, 24. The weather is jjcnerally fine all over the. Colony. At Kiairdra, however, it is stormy and a heavy snowstorm lasting three hours, took place today. Fiv« thousand sheep perished in the snow. The cricket match, Australian v. N«w Sonth Wales, was continued tod'i>. The eleven who yesterday had lost one wicket for sixtj»on« runs tvsumed their inning which cloned for a totil of 254. The following were tho principal scoters : — Trott, 57, Turner, 64 ; .Tones, 40 ; Charton took 4 ; for 82 ; Gallawny, three for 80 ; Ridmrdson. three for 35. Tbe eleven, who were 88 behind their opponents trtal in the first innimjs, followed on and at the close, of the day's play had lost one wickefc for one hundred and twenty ei<jht. Bftr.nerman, not ont, twi-nty-ninp, Tro f, not out, eighty one. MKnBounNE, 24. An aerotaut named Bartholomew dropped with a parachute from a baloon at an altitude of four thousand feet t^e descfiit was successfully accomplished.