INTERCOLONIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10034, 27 April 1894, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

Melbourne, April 2G,

Maore3ie, of tha firm of Maoredie, Drew, and Co., has been cammittjS for trial on a charge of conspiring to defraud a Parisian firm. THE BARRABA TRAGEDY. Sydney, April 26. The polica have arrested Alexander Lee, a mat 3o£ Camming's, on a charge of being concerned in the Barraba murder. At the murderer's camp of the accused men they found a quantity of telling, evidence,agaiost them. Lee lirst pretended he was mad, and afterwards protested innocence of the crime. There is evidence that the mea cut steaks off the horses to satisfy their hnnger. A CUTTER MISSING. - Brisbane, April 20. A pearling cutter,, with the owner and eight coleured men'who formed the crew, has disappeared. She is supposed to have foundered duiing the storm at Claremont Island which caused .the wreck of the Clara Ethel. vi SEDITIOUS; LANGUAGE. John Smith, an open-air agitator, has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at Rockhampton fcr seditious language, In the course of his speech he referred to " that saur-kranted old brat the Queen," and i asserted that if he bad his way he would blow her sky high. : MARINE CONFERENCE. Hobaht, April 20. Tae Marine Conferenca have decided that each colony shall in futnre only issue two grades of certificates.' Foreign and cop sting vessels are to have marked upon their sides fresh as well as salt water lines.