AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6871, 8 March 1883, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[P»a P»BS8 ABBOCUTIOK.3 (Per e.s. Arawata, via Auckland.) « ■ VICTORIA. MaiAODßsa, Feb. 28. Tho Hawthorne OollWoa Arbitration Board have awarded Biehardl Ayslie, atonemason, £IBB, and his wife *l4B, oompen* latum for injuries. . A horrible murder has been committed at Bnlltngwek,near Gi*orne,byn well-known resident, named Thomaa O'Donnell, who got

up at six o'clock one morning, went into the bedroom where his wife was sleeping, and therewith an axe nearly levered her head from her body. He then woke up his son, aged about thirteen, and told tbe boy that his mother was dead. Death was instantaneous. O'Donnell, who was highly retpeeted, and in good circumstances, is tuppoted to be insane, as for teveral days past he has complained i about hit head, The murderer hat been ar* I rested. Joske and Co., the well known wine and spirit merchants, have been charged in the Police Court to-day with telling inferior brandy in cash bearing Kartell's brand. Counsel for the defence pleaded guilty, and stated that the offence had been inadver« tenUy committed. After consultation, it was announced that tho majority of the Bench had arrived at a decision, which was to impose a fine of £2l, w}th £67 10s oottt. In the Supreme Court today, J. 0. Kelly, a landowner retiding at Fitsroy, mod the Board of Land and Works for £SOCO damages on account of injuries tuttained by him in the Hawthorne collision. Plaintiff, who it 62 years of age, sustained a severe •book, whioh it was stated had induced per. raanent paralysis. The Jury returned a verdiot for threo-fourths of lhe claim, £8760. H. Williams tued the tame defendants for £IOOO datnaget for injuries received on the same oooaiion. The Jury awarded him £250, Two men belonging to the Government ship Neiion went out fishing between Mordialloo and Frankstone to-day, when the boat capsised. One of the men, Peter Most, managed to swim to shore, after being in the water six hours. The other man, John Bruce, wan drowned. Several hundred pounds are missing from the cash entrusted to one of the paying tellers of the Colonial Bank, who has been suspended. The Police are still investigating the matter. Mr Miller, tbe Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, bat resigned, in consequence of a disagreement with the Committee. MEW SOUTH WALKS. A foreigner, who was known by the name of Gregory, was drowned at the entrance to Woolloomooloo B?.y, through the boat in whioh he, togethor with a man named George Stevens, whs sailing, capsizing. A whip nnake, measuring 4ft in length, was killed in Moore Park on Sunday, by a party of young gentlemen. In a recent speech, Sir H. Parkee taid that he and hit former colleagues were no " longer in that potation ia whioh we must bow to those whom we would rather kick." The practice of persons travelling on trains without paying their fares has been found to Srevail to such a serious extent, that the emmisiioncr of Bailways has determined to take steps to put an end to it. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. At the criminal sittings, Robert Miller pleaded guilty to falsifying the books of the National Bank of Australasia, and has been sentenced to two years and six months' imprisonment,. News has been received that the ship Dundee has sailed from Plymouth for Adelaide with 664 immigrants.