AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
Brisbane, August 20. A Frenchman named Duhamel murdered Mrs Riley, his paramour, near Oroydon, by almost cutting her head off with a razor. The murderer then swallowed strychnine, but took too much, and the, overdose acted as an emetic. He was arrested immediately. Jealousy is assigned as the cause. The British Football Team beat Brisbane by 23 pbiats to 9. Hob art, August 20. . A resolution was carried imposing a tax of a halfpenny per pound on the land owned by absentees, but it is not xegarded as likely to become law.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8246, 20 August 1888, Page 2
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94AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8246, 20 August 1888, Page 2
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