AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1583, 25 March 1882, Page 14

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A temporary bridge over the Murray, for the purpose of connecting the Victorian and New South Wales railways, is to be afc once erected, at a cost of about £2000. A permanent bridge,' estimated to cost £28,000, is also to be taken in hand. A horsebreaker named William Manning was fined at the Collingwood Court, recently 40s and £1 11s costs, or 14 days in gaol, for cruelty to a hdrse. From tne evidence it appeared that after beating the, horse in a most inhuman manner, he finished up by thrusting the handle of his whip up its nostrils. , ; . A man named John Shaw was proceeding along Market street, in Sydney, at an eariy hour one morning recently, 'when' 1 he was suddenly rushed by another man and stabbed \vith a knife. His assailant was arrested ov :t constable who witnessed the deed. The wot;: was not serious. Another offence of a siiaila nature was committed in Clarence street il 2 o'clock the same morning. Thomas powuey, 22 years of age, was stabbed while lying ou a form in front of his own house. One of the Melbourne auctioneers writes in his latest 1 circular:—" Our own sales for the four years before 1881 were £571,000, but in 18S1 our sales w, -o £722,000. The year 1881 was the best year for business of any of the 27 yoars we had." The South Australian Government havo declined to subsidise tho subscriptions collected to provide distressed farmers with seed wheat. A deputation of ironworkers waited upon the Marine Board in Adelaide, with the request that local manufacturers should be allowed an opportunity of competing with, the English for the supply of tho engines and, boilers for. the proposed dredger and i, steam launch. The f | Cabinet have since granted the request so far as [ the dnjdgere and boilers of the launch are concerned} bu,'t they say that the engines must be imported. , , ! It was at first stated that in the shooting, case near Ryde, Parramatta, Christie^ , who shot a young man named Dow, was to blame ; but itf now appears that Christie was the victim* of,, a, savage attack by larrikins, who threw I stones at him, breaking the bridge of his noise and cutting his face badly. Christie, in ajl|t,of r> exasppratipn, (ji drew,his pocket re-, volver and^fired into the crowd of assailantsV Christ c has been remanded Jor.aweek, under medic! .1 treatmen^V \Ui: > ' i VlsV 1 5 A k bourer named William Buckley, during a quarrel with his wife in Abercrombie street, Sydney, struck her J^nybhe-he'adiiHth i t.hfeffist, causing her death. He was undeij jth^innuence of driiflc at .the time,. f He has been .committed for trikljor /manslaughter. ' ','. 7' v Ml ' .' i A cqild lost 'irJth'e s6r,ub &if SjbrathAlbyn'was 'found lead five "mile's ' from home. 1 t The 'child Was 'orfly'SCfnioh^hs 6ldi and 'it isj extpabrdinary, that itf could have' i wahde'red : so far. 1 lU ' ''-'■ , f.The'ca'sia 6rMih'his," cliarged; with, the' ranr-der-.o William '-PUlinger, ( near '.Brisbane^'in Septemßpr'last, woich opcupied : 'the Suriremo Court j 11 ' days; has be^n'cqhclud'ed. THe'^ury,' 1 'lifter, seven' hotirs"cbnsultatiori.' f ouhd''a verdi 6t y of guifiy of ) matlß'laught'6r. J ] . ',' The ' prisfiieV W'afe ' V^iteniced'fb pjkil Servitude'fdtiife'' 11 We' jurf on the] first 'trial were unable lo'agrjSei' 1 ' <■'",- f 1 'A- Bdribus 1 kffra^'^ok 1 plade' in'Brisba"ne.' •An officer nam f ea il ßeid;i6f %a"lSiriei&ftH v HaVque 1 , 'Wattiii E. Tapley, came out ,, o^ a ote^ w^ 1 ' on^ I ,'^] his sailors/named Harleta. 4 ,Bpth had been,c nnk'fhg^^Tne^officei? tSldthe'^man tQ,go ■on bo£ rd, and upon his refusing fired five" shots at'hinjfrom.a iey^lv.er^Qnf ball grazing Haij. 'lem's hair.^Gori T B%able*Ryan f --« tried 4o?arres6. Reid', «rho then drew a knife l and Mobbed him 'in^thearm, breast, and other, places seriously. One. wound w.pujd h^ve/bepnifa^ali: onty^he knife strjick the,, constable's watch. r r ,Reid .was, arrested by othpr ,'policemen. , At ,phfi\ Qourlj he'| was remanded, as pqnstable, Ryan ,was; top, weak to appear. '- t „r < ,„ ,| „„ [ , ' A Chinaman attempting, to enter, the Inglewobd railway-station, ; at night j;or -purposes of, robbejy was shot, by'the,s|atippmast'er in. the knee. When'th'e .police, came , ho was bleeding profusely. „',;:;<.•)['' >ViVu.' "In--: