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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6896, 7 February 1894, Page 4

The Victorian Crown Law authorities have decided to proceed against George Bnrnett j on a charge of murder. Burnett shot a lad named Jose at Geelong (Victoria), and at the inquest the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. A serious accident occurred on the 7th of December at Drury Lane Theatre during the performance of the drama " A Life of Pleasure." About half-past 11 o'clock, while the battle scene was being performed, a Gatling gun, which forms one of the "accessories," was fired, with the result that two men were immediately seen to fall. Upon examination it was foutld that both had received portions of the charge about the face. They were removed to King's College Hospital. The men were respectively the sixth and seventh who have been admitted to King's College Hospital suffering from injuries received under similar circ-omst-ances m v * A Life of Pleasure" — not much of a pleasure for them. Sir Chas. Tupper, the High Commissioner for Canada m London, recently paid a very high compliment to the founders of steam communication between Canada and Australia. Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co., he said to a representative of the British Australasian, "are undoubtedly men of great energy and enterprise, and I do not think it would be possible to have this important undertaking placed m hands more calculated I to ensure its complete success." The Canadian mammoth cheese has been shipped by the Dominion Government to Liverpool. The American papers state that this gigantic cheese was one of the most attractive hits at the World's Fair Exhibition, Chicago. It weighs something like 24,000 or 25,0001 b (nearly twelve tons), and it has been shipped to Lipton, the wellknown tea and provision merchant, who will exhibit it throughout the country. Tho Bishop of Rockhampton concluded his remarkably fine sermon at the consecration of the Hobart Cathedral with a strong plea for unity, pointing out that there was m the truth as well as m the love of God "a length and breadth and depth and height " that demanded (all the varied gifts of varied schools of thought to investigate and expound. The united Christendom would soon mean a converted world."