AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXX, Issue 8552, 4 August 1888, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

[Special to Press Association.] MINING MILLS AT A STANDSTILL. BRISBANE, August 3. Nearly all the mining mills in Queensland have stopped until the wet season comes round. Hundreds of men are thus thrown out of employment. A HEADLESS COLONY, HOBART, August 3, A sensation has been caused owing to attention being called to the fact that the Colony is without a judicial head, both Hia Excellency the Governor and the Chief Justice being absent at the Melbourne Exhibition. It is considered doubtful if the senior Judge can be sworn in as an officer to administer the government of the Colony. INCITING TO MUTINY. The steamer Brunner, bound from Glaa-

gow to New Zealand, arrived yesterday. During the stay of the vessel at Capetown, the chief steward was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for stealing stores and inciting the crew to mutiny. CONFBEENCE OF JUDGES. A conference of Judges of the Supreme Court from various Colonies will, be held to-day, when matters affecting, judicial subjects of importance to Australia will be discussed. [Received August 3, at 10.45 pan.] A BODY IDENTIFIED. SYDNEY, August 3. In June last, a man was accidentally killed at Parramatta, and up to the present it has been impossible to identify the body. It is now ascertained that the deceased was Archibald Barr, a native of Otago. SHIPPING. Sailed—Wairarapa, for Auckland. MURDER BY AN ABORIGINAL. BRISBANE, August 3. An aboriginal murdered his gin, at Eeppel Bay, and escaped to the bush. [Received August 4, at 1.45 a.m.l THE MURDER BY A CHINAMAN. SYDNEY, August 2. At the inquest on the body of Morris, murdered at Blacktown, the medical evidence showed that it was impossible for the murderer to have returned to the hut, after the injuries he received, without leaving any trace whatever on the ground. Two Chinese visited Ling Loong shortly before the murder. He then appeared to be in delirium, and said Ah Sin told him to “ kill the boss.” It is believed the object of the murder was plunder, and that Loong, being unsuccessful in his endeavours to obtain money, the others attacked him. EECOMMENDED TO MERCY. The prisoner Hewatt, who committed a terrible outrage in a police cell, in June, on another prisoner named Parkes, has been sentenced to death. The Jmy recommended him to mercy.