AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 193, 24 August 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association) N.S.W. Parliament. Received 1.15 a.m. Sydney, August 28. The Premier, roplying to a deputation, said the amount of business which had to be done was so important that he intended to ask the House to prolong the session into next year. Another Sentence. Melbourne, August 23. Matthew Larkin was sentenced to live years on a further charge of embezzlement from the South Melbourne Society, to run concurrently with the sentence he is now working out. Frozen Game. Melbourne, August 23. The Agricultural Department has shipped twenty tons of frozen hares and rabbits to London. A Terrible Tragedy. Melbourne, August 23. A mysterious tragedy is reported from Maryborough, 112 miles northwest from here. A widow named Vennells who kept a boardinghouse left her home to post a letter, and on her return found three of her children, aged seven, five, and three respectively with their heads battered in by a tomahawk. Two of the children are dead, and the third lies in a critical condition. There is no due to the perpetrator. The sum of five pounds and some jewellery are missing from Mrs Vennells’ house. The theory is that the robber was disturbed and in revenge murdered the children before decamping. Later. The first reports of the Maryborough tragedy were somewhat exaggerated, as none of the children are dead. One is iu a very critical condition, but there is some hope of the other two recovering. Received 11.30 a.m.

Change of Leadership. Brisbane, This Day. Mr Power, who had occupied the oombined leadership of the labor and opposition parties, has resigned, the former party having notified their intention to terminate the arrangement. Sinco then Mr Lane has boon nominally leader, but he now declares In occupies an invidious position. Another Gold Discovery Perth, This Day. A rich gold find is reported from Yalgoo, in the Murchison district, the stone yields lOOoz to the ton. Change of Portfolios. Brisbane, This Day. A slight re-arrangement of portfolio has taken place. The lion Mr Phillip takes the D parfment for Public Instruction and lion W. Wilson will act as Postmaster C -n,-el until the I lon A. Thynne, the delegates to Canada, in Mr Wilson then retains a in the Cabinet without portfolio.