AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 2, 4 January 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[press association.] EXTENSIVE GRASS FIRE

MELBOURNE, Jan. 1. An extensive fire in the Mildura .district destroyed 100,000 acres of grass. THE ARMIDALE MURDER. SYDNEY, Jan. 1. Some doubt is expressed as to the sanity of Casey, the man arrested on his own confession for the murder of Joanna Kelly at Armidale in December. 1908. A SAD CASE. MELBOURNE, Jan. 1. Mrs Lena Clugston, who shot and killed three of her children and wounded another and herself with a pearifle at her home at Cosgrove, has given birth to a child prematurely in hospital. She is suffering from puerperal mania. TRANSVAAL SHEEP-BREEDING. MELBOURNE, Jan. 1. The Transvaal Government has asked the Prime Minister to select; and appoint a flock-master to superintend the Transvaal Stud Sheep Department. His duty will be to . travel the country and instruct farmers in the selection and management of. sheep, and the salary will be £650 a year, rising to £800. BIG EARTH TREMOR. (Received Jan. 4, 10.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 4. A severe earth tremor was recorded at Sydney at 10 o'clock on Saturday night. A calculation placed the centre of the disturbance in the Carribean Sea.