AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10218, 12 December 1893, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT. SYDNEY, D*c. 11. Haviland, Secretary of the School of Arts, has been arrested for embezzlement. His defalcations are .expected to exceed £2OOO. A CHARGE OP MURDER. At Wiloannia, a young man named M'Grath, who was annoyed with an old man named Fellowes, a street musician, deliberately shot him dead. M'Grath has been arrested on a charge of murder. GRASS FIRES. An intense heat wave has been prevalent over the whole Colony for the last two days. At one station out west the thermometer; registered 116 in the shade. Many grass fires ate reported, especially in tho Riverina district, and largo areas of fodder have been destroyed. A COADJUTOR BISHOP. MELBOURNE, Dec. 11. At Ballarat yesterday, Dr Delaney was consecrated by Archbishop Carr as coadjutor to the Bishop of Tasmania. INTENSE HEAT. ADELAIDE, Dec. 11. Intense beat was experienced in the city yesterday, 107 being registered in the shade. AFFRAY WITH BLACKS. BRISBANE, Nov. 11. A police party, consisting of two white men and ten natives, was pursuing native murderers in the vicinity of tho Ducie river. The native contingent entered the murderers’ camp, hut advised the whites to remain outside,, considering it unwise that they should accompany them, as it might reduce the chances of capture. On entering the camp the blacks attacked the native police and murdered the whole band. The whites were subsequently forced to beat a retreat.