AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12795, 29 September 1905, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

(Jniitd Press Association —Per Electric Telegraph—Copyrieht. CHARGE DISMISSED. BRISBANE, September 28.

! The Court discharged P. Levaux, a solicitor and' a prominent Labour supporter, who was charged with the alleged murder of Peter Eumberg.; The Magistrate said he could not commit for trial on the evidence adduced: Accused's wife is the sole beneficiare under/Lumberg's will, -which was. made 'Wee weeks prior to. Lumberg's deat)i,' THE BROOME TRAGEDY. PERTH, September 28. Espada, a Manilaman, accuses 4 fiagiin, a. Norwegian, and Marquis, a Manilaman, of being the actual murderers of Liebglid, who "was decoyed on board a vessel" on the pretence of seeing a l -pearl, 'and assailed with sling shot and'-a glass bottle/ Espa'da remonstrated,- and Marques said 1 — ?< This white man is no good; he is riot eVen-a Christian —only a Jew; better kill him." : - v. .; • EXODUS OF FARMERS. SYDNEY/ September 28.-5 | An exodus of -farmers from Newcastle tp Chili has begun. •• Over twenty families already left, anymore will follow. One farmer, -who has been in the State twenty years and haß /donei fairly -well,"- on being interviewed, said he was going simply because he was Iheartily tired of the ■way in which farmers were treated. They no consideration from the Government —only taxes upon taxes. Therefore tnsy were going to try what t)ie agricultural conditions were lite in America, where they, were informed land concessions were granted liberally. Speaking for him-: self, he said he -was faced with a serious difficulty. He . had sis sons, and could not get them ,on a decent bit of land here on _ anything like fair terms. The con- , ditions would not give them a phance.