AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9656, 31 October 1894, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright NEW FLYING MACHINE. Melbourne, October 30. Mr. Flood, a Melbourne resident, claims to have invented a flying machine which Professor Kernot, of the Melbourne University, certifies as capable of ascending vertically and travelling horizontally any desired height, and descending either obliquely or vertically at any desired spot.

NEW SOUTH WALES RIFLE MEETING.

Sydney, October 30. Three New Zealand competitors are en* gaged in the New South Wales Rifle As-, sociation meeting, which is taking place this week. Corporal Brown was the prizetaker in the first stage of the Queen's Match. A MANSLAUGHTER CASE. Melbourne, October 30. The man Wash, who, while drunk, quarrelled with his wife and cut her throat, has been found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment). OUTRAGES IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, October 30. A number of outrages consisting of assaults on free labourers and the destruction of property have been committed in the Greta district. THE DAIRY INDUSTRY. Sydney, October 30. The Daily Telegraph recommends the appointment of an official meat grader to remove the stigma that New South Wales meat is "rubbish." The article also coilmonds the New Zealand Parliament for itfl legislation in the direction of instituting official grading of butter and cheese.

KIDNAPPING OF KANAKAS. Brisbane, October 30. Enquiry is proceeding into a charge o\ kidnapping during the recent cruise of th« William Manson, a labour vessel from Bundaberg. A missionary alleges that he sent three Malataya Islanders, who were Christianised, to Malataya, to pave the way for a white missionary, and that the captain, after consultation with the chief, refused to allow them to land and brought them back to Australia; also, that the chief ordered six women who had been kidnapped, to be sent aboard, bub they were afterwards allowed to land. ARREST OF A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. Brisbane, October 30. John Willard, a member of the New South Wales Parliament, who is visiting here for the purpose of collecting evidence to prove the validity of his election, foa* been arrested at the instance of the Post-master-General for larceny from the Brisbane Post Office of certain documents. THE ACCIDENT TO THE WALLAROO. Sydney, October 30. H.M. s. Wallaroo broke a high-preoaurfl cylinder. __^_ i ____ . ; ?