AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 29 December 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

; ■. ■ .. . • ♦ ",■ , :-■ . ■■ ■ SHOOTING A aaiNAMiAN. OHtENEISE .LiA.ITND!REISS OOMMITTEP FOBJTBiIAL. (By Mail.)"' ADEfcAIDiEL December 8. A.t the Adelaide Police Court to day Mrs' Sing Clan, <2hinese laundry woman, was . charged withl having maliciously wounded Pet Cue an November 4. ' ■• *.".'■ lOuls depoised tihiat Mrs Clan worked ifof him for abouti fivie nnontha. When ghel daime she aslked him toi marry her but witness replied that he w'ais a married mlan and could not. Oni tlte aight. of thle' trouble he was steeping on a clouch, when he w*as aiwtakeued by hearing a noise like a clannon draoTcei*. Bfe saw. Mirs Clan running out of tihia room. Hie smelt po'wdei'. and feeling a pain in his ahesb, found iti oontetred with blood. Hie rusbeid to the dooa 1 and Idcked it. Clolu»taib(le.. Cbnaidine said: tliialt the accused oaoie to tlie city watchhousev about £ in tile morning without aaxy ghoea on, andi bnl)' ai- blanket orer hef, and said: "I wa.n* you to go with mff^tid Gouger'-streiet. A) man oamo into my tedroom. Hfe had a; rorolren 1 in hia hand. He locked the door. I itr'ag-.T'ery friglutiencid: by what h« said to ma He pi* dowii tihcf re--volvef,, and I snatched it amd shot hain^in the breast." Witness accompanied thai accused to the house, where they found due lying bldeding 00 a, couchl Ckie exclaimed as, they •oamia in, "She shot me." 'Whea chained witln hotting aittempted to murder One the woiSan replied "That is his revolver." The aclcftised, who rtfietwed her defence, was cjnmmitted for 1 trial. STBAMM'S W,BTIRiP EKPEtR'IEtNCE AN OCIEIAN BUST.; SIHOWIEJR;" , PRiEM!AiNITL(E3, Deo. 6. iAI weird ■ «aqjerien»e befell the steamer Faired during tine voyage frtom, Singapore to> Fi'emiantla "When off Mount Swtetrli, in Java, on November 15, lairge Volumies of smoikift' were noticied issuing fromi its summit. While this vessel was in SburaJbaiya it reported tliat the voloanio had beeu inaotivo for several weeiksi, and, fearing tihc! Results of rteoxewed activity, many native residents had fled from the vicinity. When the-Parod was in Madura Straits inky darkness set in, and th'r'ouighoult: the night a dense shWwtr of fine dust settled ■■"'direr the flea, making it. distressing to; keieip a loolk!----out. Th«( dust cointinued to fall in a steady shower, alnd soon the Tieesel Waa doverted with a layer of fine powder. " T» add to the weirdness of the scenic the sea bedame brilliantly phosphorescemitp, and aJaainieid seabirds which in large nutobei'S alighted on. the steamer. It was not Until after elbivten houiTS uf steaming that . th.o atmospheric cleared.