INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 9277, 24 April 1891, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright,

THE NARBETHONG MURDER.

BISHOP SBLWYN.

THE FATAL EXPLOSION,

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Hobart, April 23.

The report that Sir E. C. N. Braddon, Agent-General, is returning to Tasmania, is not confirmed.

Melbourne, April 23.

India will exchange press telegrams with Australia at the same late which obtains with England.

A committee of medical men have decided that Colston, who murdered Davis and his wife at Narbethong, is suffering from paralysis of the brain, and cannot be hold accountable for the deed. (Received April 23, 8.15 p.m.) Sydney, April 23. Arrived—H.M.S. Orlando, from Auckland.

(Received April 24, 1 40 a.m.) Sydney, April 23.

H.M.S. Orlando called at Norfolk Island on her way from Auckland for thq purpose of bringing Bishop Selwyn on to Sydney, but the reverend gentleman was too ill to leave the Island.

The Commissioners who held an enquiry into the Middle Head disaster (when the gun cotjton mine exploded, killing four

men) have submitted their report to Government. They find that Lieutenant Hammond, who was in charge of the launch, and Corporal McKee, both of whom were killed, were alone to blame for the explosion. Melbourne, April 23. Cornelius Harrington, who kicked his wife to death at Walhalla, has been sentenced to 16 years’ penal servitude.