Australian News.
Brisbane, January 25. A doctor who hail been sent for to attend patients at the Roxburgh Downs station died of thirst on the way, and mdc*eng«r who accompanied him
only saved himself by drinking the horse'* blood. Mrs Fitzgerald and her daughter have been committed for trial for the murder of Mr Fitzgerald, the husband of the former, at Warwick, on Christmas Day. Rutter, the Mayor of Rockhampton, has been further committed for trial on charges of fraud in connection with certain deeds of transfers. Perth, January 25. Several important discoveries of gold are reported from Roehurne and the Darling range. A Melbourne firm have offered £50,000 for one claim from which a sample of stuff gave boz to the ton. Sydney. January 21. It lias transpired that the Broken Hill Silver Company have had five smelters running out molten silver night and day since July last. The Broken Hill South Silver Mine Company have intensified the turning excitement by their having tapped the great lode. Shares which had formerly been quoted at 24s have risen in value to £2O, thus adding at one stroke a million and a half to the value of the mine.
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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 167, 27 January 1888, Page 2
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