AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7411, 13 August 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Press Aaaoolation— Eleotrie Telegraph -Copyright SYDNEY, Aug. 12. A melancholy double suicide has occurred near Cordabalin. A young married woman, aged 19, hanged herself. Her husband, on learning of his wife's suicide, utilised the same rope and killed himself. The affair took place during the temporary absence of their relatives. AUG. 1. — The Government ia appointing a Commission to enquire into the workings of the collieries of the colony, consisting of Messrs Rogers (President), Gregson (of the Australian Agricultural Company), and Airley (Secretary of the Northern Miners Association.) • Lawton, the fireman who was killed on the way to the fire by falling off the engine, was a native of New Zealand, and only joined the brigade a fortnight ago. This waß his first fire. MELBOURNE, Atro. 12. A sensational discovery was made in Porb Melbourne lagoon, where the body of a two-year-old boy named Williams was found with i a heavy stone round its neck. j BRISBANE, Aug. 13. The places of the bootmakers out on strike are being filled up from the Southern colonies. The strikers are quiet. The southern portion of the colony is suffering severely from drought, and there are heavy losses in stock in places. . PERTH, Aug. 13. The railway accounts for the past year show a surplus of £100,000 over working expenses. A Pareee merchant was fined £400 for introducing forty Indian laborers contrary to the rule's of the Imported Labor Act. ADELAIDE, Ava. 13. Mr Mac Donald, the Cape Agricultural expert, who is visiting Australia to gather information as to its products and industries, says the ostrichs at the Port Augusta farm compare favorably with these of the Cape. He considers ostrich rearing will prove successful and payable in the colonies. The birds could be depastured with other stock. HOBART, Aug. 13. Complications have arisen over the first prize in the Bank of Van Diemen's lottery. The trustees have received ap injunction restraining them from dealing with the prize to the extent of one half, on the application of Mr Davis, of Western Australia, who claims a partnership with Mr Smith, the holder of the winning ticket.