AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13925, 5 December 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

■■■ ♦ —i— ■ ■ By Telegraph.—Presß Association.— QUEENSLAND MURDER CASE. (Received December 4, 11.30 p.m.) ■ Brisbane, December 4. Mrs. Fanny Wilson, wife of the manager of Carpentaria, ,»Downa Station, has, with the aboriginal, Billy Wilson,' been-, committed for trial on the, charge of murdering Nellie Duffy, at Carpentaria Downs Station, on September 28. CHINESE STOWAWAYS. (Received December 4, 11.30 p.m.) ■ Sydney, December, 4. Twenty Chinese stowaways have been discovered on the steamer Eastern from Hongkong. AMERICAN TENNIS , PLAYER. (Received December 5, 1. a.m.) ,' '.'"'. i < ;• • ;'-'* Melbourne, December"*. F. M".. Alexander, ! the American tennis player, has arranged a six weeks' tour of ; New Zealand at the conclusion of the. Australasian tournament. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Melbourne, December 4. " The Federal %.Government .is ."'. .being harassed over,; the i;sti.mAteS'.'by..Tfi.".own followers, especially -in regard to increases in salaries, . ;'..,, . MISHAP TO THE MAHENO. Hobart, December 4. , The M 4 aheno signalled off Eddyistone last evening tluit the high. pressure turbines ;■ were out of order, and that the shaft' bolt couplings had broken at noon yesterday. The vessel is continuing her voyage under her low pressure engines. . . (Received December 5, 12.50 a.m.) Sydney, December 4. The Union . Company's .Melbourne .office advises that the repairs required to the Maheno are only trivial, and that the steamer will take up her running from Melbourne on Wednesday.