AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11537, 23 November 1900, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright. PENNY POSTAGE. Melbourne, November 22. The new Postmaster-General favours penny postage in Victoria. CHARGE OF KILLING A HUSBAND. Melbourne, November 22. Mrs. Wright has been acquitted on a charge of killing her husband, William Wright. FRANCE AND THE NEW HEBRIDES, •Sydney, November 22. News from Noumea states that the local Parliament was asked by the French Government (which is tantamount to a command) to vote £80 a head to send six monks and Marist priests who recently arrived there to New Hebrides. MOUNT LYELL COMPANY. Melbourne, November 22. At the half-yearly meeting of the Mount Lyell Company a net profit of £113,746 was announced, and making all allowances for liquid assets to September 30 the balance to the credit of all account* was £119,146 | NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT. Sydney, November 22. In the Assembly, after an all-night sitting, the Women's Suffrage Bill was read a second time by 52 to 20, and taken through committee. A THEATRICAL DIVORCE CASE. Melbourne, November 22. A rule nisi has been granted in the divorc* suit, Row v. Row, the husband's petition. The respondent was the well-known actress. Nellie Stewart, and the grounds of were desertion. THE MURDERS BY BLACKS. Sydney, November 22. The trial of Jimmy Governor began today. Counsel for the prisoner submitted a plea in the Bar, and asked that he should be acquitted. He based the plea on th« ground that Jimmy being outlawed could not plead in) the usual way, and was practically convicted by outlawry of the offence in the indictment. The Sheriff could take , v and execute him without further process. ; The judge rejected the plea, as local law provided for an ordinary trial even in out- ■ '.y lawry. Prisoner then pleaded not guilty.. The trial is proceeding. v ' .