AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1549, 5 February 1887, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

YIOTOBIA. ' ; : ! ', 1 ' ) 8. Penning, while duck; .Bboottog at i '"'Horsham on Sunday, was accidentally , shot,, and ; died, in. the,. Hospital. His ! ' ! seven companions, Were charged with . shooting op; Sunday .V for pleasure," <and » fined £2 each. A man named Daniel Kianne, who has

been drinking, went into a public hous? ] '- ?A ''near Ballarat; and' cmiraitted suicide by ~ disembowelling himself with a oarviogv ••^":'kWife.' :i -' : '"' ;: .. :i;v r ;.;;";' ,v in! Melbourne were sufamoned for! Sunday trading. Twenty-three were fined £lO each, the total fines at the and of .the sitting being " * M Tbe editor of the Echucha Record was (1 v tjirsshed in the street, by<a dqctor, who ,!' wpfe Ba^,been /r.cflectjad.on in th" struck out, ami ..'., j; both partieshea* marks of the, oot fliefc. Act % 2 wilt take place in the Goon. There is grtat excitement at Duno'ly n - tbroncrhitbe discovery of a large nugget, ii It ,concM(»d' of a large piece of qimtta richly i» r *«nated with gold; weighing Io Uk '.• •<• s 4190ra. After crushing He of ihe precious metal was 260nz< • «"'• 'l2dwt, the total value being soruewh t qverfilOOO.. ;., ~. • ; child Bitting in a perambulator^ Bahiratt was, attacked. by » goat, and, ,?- ! ,,beforei the mother gipt ft itsassistance tlj«. almost devoured the infant's '■'^'nand 1 '■'■''■"/''.'■ ! V- '\',-''.'.'-.-"7."i \ ai belief ; -ta'be' ■£ pick^., : whileirnhhing awayfro-n » rr>'H\, i [" "stop.tbief i" v»»t i between some trucks |t the Spencer Street; , i and was. run over and killed. ,<.!j3ie'man who was following ran away and cannot be found. .' Andther'lease-iof ■hasp eometo light. The cheque las drawn;* by Bcwland, and'wason 'the!Commercial Bank. It was ioti £2 4s. A few dajs after it was presented as for £204 3s 61, t 4» »nd'wWc»«he*witihout 1 domiiTi"lt: --afterwards found out, that .the .whole of the wrftfrig 1 in' the body b'f the cheque had ,^,been.obUterated,"and,'in, ; Q, »as,placed om#n MA 'rVp^nting 1 4 '*'iiMin T g»£2o4, »Kd.the 3a 6d was, Written. !i7 '''WWflrwMda. , ' ) , the writing ipsie, bftdy of the ©Aequ^f which lias been used in two recent, stances has been so adopted ;>:]■ > Effort* <i are*: being made to discover the perpetrator of the fraud. The * *|»liei have reasons for belieVtri* : thit more thsn one periiori is concerned init. M - ■/ " . The Centennial Exhibition Commission - held it .first nieetihe yeeterday. It was " that the Ekhibifcion'should'open ' ' ' ori'A'iW Ist; 186tf, and close on January aisjnsas, and should be open at night, j, TJie.wpresa'service between Adelaide t \s.ndrMelbourne is now "in complete Working order, trains running daily eaoh cway. . '■'- "• "•' 'NEW SOUTH WALltf.' ~ / Tha steamer Bamboo!, wheni coming into the Bqlimba'Beach on January 24th, toofc.tbe ground. Two, J meo, * named Cameron and M'Donald,,went in a boat ■with an anchor to warp her off, when the rope tightened -and tito boat capsized, resulting in both being drowned. Cameron -,{ was wrecked in the Keilawarra. /' employed on . r.'therelief wsojrks, and'more will shortly be - iy,w provided for. In view'olMhis there does T tnet seem much room for the 609 Govern* •:< went'immigrants who arrived fromLon-' r don in tha steamer Port Victor," ' ( , -■ •- * ,By' the 'floods 1 in the r l?pper Richmond '• '-distinct the been completely 1 "''-destroyed. Stock' have been drowned m, ;, -I'liSgfl nomberft - : ' tutioo have been caused. Great loss of^..' life would, alec haTd'OoeuiTed but for the great bravery of the bands of rescuers. . A >balf.casNj named ' M'Dongall' was drinking with a man' named Daley near Glen Inoes« ( :Tbey quwrelled, and M'Dougalllcilled Daley iwitK and thea*lewhie own brains out when —* ataJMa/Went to arrest him. *- i> > ' Assembly' ci Monday* Sir sfiepry Pnrkea indicated the polioy'oftho /rirfw Government. They would derive a large /amount of revenue frojAr land, but V'ould,not alienate the public estate W r a* mere sopg.'- The railway would be placed aodercharge of a Board or a Commission entirely removed from political influence. Carofol inmediate enquiry' would "be made;, as to .the Civil servicej with' a view of -abolishing un» kgDeqesssry oflßcers of all. grades. , Gqvern%%*s&<* ould go to the' country >;on - the .fiJrWjrad^pelioy-as against Protection) »lnd%buld not sanction any grain duties. *,Tb*j_ would.not introduce an income ". jbut,.w6ufd''ippose>n eqpitable, property, •2%x,-with the view of extricating the il . colony ,frem the, fioanciat embarraasment i' iril'o'which if,bod fallen. , , i '■■■/ «'■ ' .r.v ')'. •'•■ i- iQUBENdi/iWD. «'- ;v -~ l r , ■ A case of smallpox was discovered at' vM'uPott: Darwin on the steamer Changton, y\ry from Hongkong. The patient, a China- ' was isolated. There was great -'■• 'excitement afterwards, when it became, *-i "known; that the Health OlScer, after being went tq^dinner ; party; t It is aaii that he should have been quarantined. Referring -to one of the Mining Companies about to be floated in London,-the |Kbrthfrn Times di»clareii that <it is >a l|dgasiU^ ; fraud, and .the prospectus,-jjs 'nauedi is a falsehood* k 4 "j