AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1690, 26 January 1888, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

VICTORIA

With the advent of the hot weather comes the dread visitor, typhoid'fever. No less than 67 cases were reported to the Central Board of Health on Jan. 10th, and ten of these were fatal. Since Jan. 6th, 1887, over 3,000,000 ounces of silver have been obtained from the Broken Hill mines, the value being £672,000, of which £271,000 has been paid in dividends. The conviction of Alfred Burban, a lieutenant in the Yictorian Militia, for an assault upon Mrs Christina Rainsford, a married woman, in Richmond on the night of Jan. 11th, will probably form the subject of investigation at a court-martial. NEW SOUTH WALES. A well-known criminal named William Bridgor, suspected of complicity in several extensive burglaries in Sydney and the suburbs, has been arrested and arraigned before the Central Police Court. The prisoner had a large number of skeleton keys on him, and at his residence the police found an extensive collection of jewellery and other goods. The prisoner, who struggled desperately with the detective, is an old man-of-warsman,’who was court-martialled out of H.M.S. Wolverine fiye years ago for theft.

Hanlan has drawn up articles for a match with Trickett.

A strange case of snake-bite occurred to a man named Harris, residing near Poowong. In company with one of his men he was crossing a paddock, when the man observed a black snake and ran away from it. Harris, who had an axe in his hand, despatched the reptile, cutting it into three pieces. He then picked up the head portion to throw it at the man that had run away, when the reptile fastened on to his forefinger. Ho immediately scarified the bitten part and sucked it, but foolishly applied no ligature to prevent the poisoned blood circulating through his system. He was,brought into Warragal, feeling very ill, but under medical treatment he recovered.

QUEENSLAND.

The blacks have speared two men on Strathleven Station. One of them, Corrigan, received three spear wounds of a dangerous, character, but he managed to escape with his life. His companion, named Wright, was less fortunate. He received eight spears' in his body, and the blacks cut off his head.

The evidence taken at the inquiry into the death of the girl Emma Barrett, at Croydon, shewed that Barrett was her father, and that the pair had been guilty of incest, the neighbors always supposing they were' man and wife. The man to whom the girl wa-i to,have been married left her on Friday, she then, being in good spirits. At noon next day, however, she was dead. Barrett was seen hiding some medicine bottles in a towel. A shocking tragedy was discovered recently at the North Tbolurra Station. Two youths, one named Ross, aged 16, and the only son of Mr J. Ross, the .manager of the Australian Joint Stock Bank, and the„ other named Rintz, the son of Mr Louis Rintz, a surveyorresiding at Brisbane, had been out shooting. Shortly after sundown an employee at the station found both of them lying dead some distance from the head station. Ross had his chest torn away, and the butt end of his gun was splintered, while some splinters had pierced Riutz’s chest in the region of the heart. The latter was lying a yard or two away from his comrade. The cause of the tragedy is involved in mystery, as no one witnessed it. The police believe Rintz shot Ross accidentally, and then committed suicide. Each had a double-barrelled breech-loading gun. When found Rintz’s gun had both barrels: empty, while one of Ross’ barrels had been discharged. One gun was close to thejbodies and the other several feet away, with the breech open ready for loading. If the theory set up by the police be correct it is difficult to understand'how Rintz committed suicide, for the muzzle of the gun seems to have been placed in his. mouth, but he was too small to reach the trigger with his band, and could not have pulled it with his tee, for his boots i were still on both his feet.' Neither of the guns were burst.