AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 252, 26 September 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(Per 8.8. Wakatipn.) Sydney, September 19. " A girl named Henrietta Crossingbam a servant m Cundletown, was committed tor trial at Saree for the wilful murder of her new-born infant, which was founl floating m the river m a sugar b'g. . Mrs Hampson is conducting an evangelistic mission m the Exhibition Buildings, ! which are nightly crowded to the doors. ( A great 'squall has passed over the Turain district. Its path was narrow, but it was extremely severe. Repassed Ihrough ; Adelong, Gilmo}e; 'and Upper _ Adeiong. Trees were uprooFed, Hbuseß ? and tobacco sheds levelled. The ground was wbite 'with Snow. A sad accident occurred at Euston. Whilst _rs Arthur Graham, Miss M. "Hazelwood, and two young men and a childy ' were boating m a lagoon at Euston; Station, the boat by accident , filled, both ladies being drowned. The kerosene shale property at Caperte was offered the other day to an English Company, for £25,000, and a cablegram has been received, m reply, .accepting the offer. Brisbane, Sepembet 19,. i August Bi 4 ack has been, committed for trial for 1 the murder of his' wife, whose body was recently found oh the river bank. Mr Jacob Low, the late member for the Balonoe, a welUknown squatter, is" dead. He was 76 years of age. At the criminal sittings of tbe Sn* preme Court at Rockhampton to-day, Jango, -an original, was sentenced to death fpr the murder ot a. girl named Eliza, Mills at Dingo, on July 10th last year. ■- George, another aboriginal, was sentenced to death for rape on the per* son of Johanna Anderson, a girl* aged 11, at Gracemere. The Government has accepted tw-o tenders for 83 miles of the central railway, ior £128,484. . L ,*'* - >;>