AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 259, 5 October 1883, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

i %JNGLtSii OF AN! JEXEOU-<.[ TIQNER. ; DISCmAOBFUr^T' OF SACRILKGE. A STRAKGE ANIMAL. Mblboubne, September 26. The execution ot Robert Francis Bm te the murder of Qumhyan. Took place> on Tuesday, m the Ararat Satire F^nce of 30 Bpect^, briidk the officißl3dfthe gaoU Upiobn the exeWoneir, 'F«»nea the and pijced th| cap on -; Wshead Bums was then led onti on In" and took his.place en the scafo d attention was directed-to the bungle^ H^S be merely pulled the noose more *XtW l Head-warder Ranfan ; then i^A up, pmW noose morfe Stiy, and Pieced tbe knot on the < Ssßurn B? neck. • Peat^ was m Btanfaneous, Burnss'^^^ vertebra^be.ng .br&en and the wind plpe^'fi *»* ' .deceased left, written .statement, thank- ' -ing th?gaoler for his considerate treatme uneofthe-moßt disgraceful insults over offered to a, church-goms com« . ,mannj> reported. W Qhjton Hill. .",. ,At Bt. Andrew's Anglican, .Church a, i^eathettoard building,,a member (the Hate Mr Turnbuli) was buried f At; „ *he conckßion:of. the ceremony the «burch was closed, and was n6t xc- : opened,uiitil Monday night, when a dis•racefui' sight met the view., Ihe cirureh bad been'broVd; into and ransacked from cne.end to the other.; An jemtrapce w.ab effected, by,bnrstingm a " pane of glass iv the back door, and on • rtbe plabe where the clergy man. stood at , the funeral a %«e had been bjilt «th. •• .boxes; The Lord's Prayer, which .engwed on the wall.^.s smeared with ink, and filthyiwords had, be^n >■-written, ontbewallßof the chutch, whichj were also stained with ink. ' , A Btran««'6t° ry comes from Wper s ?; .-CteaM.v6o- Hiles from Melbojimfe. A *l£e savagoanimal, about^ )««, ypari-old" heifers with/la K reat liead, Lggy mane,;busby tail, and Wy ' limb? frjabtened two young men^ who- ' S^ y! Traces^the-auimalwere ! afterwards seen. ' About' a lortrnght *■■■■>aLo' seVeral children^ repotted hpy.ngr "■ *eW a larue wild animal like ajio<rm *be loqality, the residents of= whlchbe- " tne men*g ,