AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 218, 22 October 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Per Press Association)

Sydney, October 21. In coaneetion with the spiritualistic sensation Dr McCarthy publishes seme extraordinary statements regarding medical examinations of certain forms materialised by Mrs Mellon which he states emphatically are not those of a woman. Mrs Mellon expresses her determination to give materialistic seanoes under the most rigid tests in order to prove her genuineness. The Northern Miners’ Association finds a difficulty in providing funds to support the i.trikers ©ut of work. The demands made on the funds of the Association require a 25 per cent levy on the miners who are in work but for some time past thej - have refused to pay a 5 or 10 per cent levy and it is therefore impossible to obttiin the larger amount. The question of dissolving the Association is under consideration. Melbourne, October 21. Obituary—Colonel Smith, M.L.A., for Ballarat. The jury disagreed in the case of Morrison for wife murder. They were unable to come to any decision on the question of the man’s insanity aud have been discharged. In the meantime Morrison has been remanded for examination as to his mental condition. Received 11.50 a.in. Sydney, This Day. A man named Brown, who stated that he worked his passage ever in the Rotomahana has requested the Daily Telegraph urgently to warn people against flocking to New Zealand, giving a deplorable account of the destitution there, anaounting in many parts as ho says to absolute starvation. He describes tho distress in Wellington as something awful, and the only city which seems to get along is Dunedin. Melbourne, This Day. About seven hundredweight of specimens from the Wealth of Nations mine were treated here, and yielded 2719 ounces of gold. It is understood Mr Best, Minister of Trade and Customs, who is anxious to make some tangiblo progress with federation, finds himself hampered by the strong "'protectionist section in the Cabinet. Perth, This Day. Some rich atone taken from the Mount Margaret, Coolgardie, weighing 5001bs. g'ave one ounce to the pound. Mrs Needle, for the murder by poison hf Joiiktß, wsi executed this morning. No hitch occurred. In reply to tho usual question she said “ I have nothing to say.