AUSTRALIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5280, 10 June 1895, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

[Special to Pbkbs Association.]

A TRAGEDY,

SYDNEY, June 9.

A tragedy is reported from Cainperdown, a western tuburb of Sydney. Ezra Abrahams, a Jewish lolly-vendor and a married man with a family, became infatuated with Miss Gtoodacre. He peateced her with his attentions, but she refused all Advances. The couple met in the street this afternoon, and she endeavoured to avoid Abrahams, who drew a revolver and fired three shots at her, the bullets lodging in her arms and back. The ruffian then fired two Bhots into his own abdomen. Abrahams is in a critical condition, but the girl, though seriously wounded, is likely to recover.

MUSICAL EXAMINATIONS

SYDNEY, June 10.

A total of 922 candidates presented themselves for the Sydney Trinity College musical examinations. Thiß is a large increase on any previous year.

THE PLAGUE

The bucolic plague is still raging at Macao, the average death rate being about thirty. The epidemic has entirely disappeared from Hongkong. Cholera is raging? at Bangkok.

EVASION OF SHEEP DUTY,

MELBOURNE, June 10.

Claude Perignon wsb fined .£SOO for importing two thousand sheep from New South Wales without paying the duty.

ELECTORAL.

ADELAIDE, Jjhb 10.

Mr Patrick Glynn, a National Dafence League candidate, was elected for the North Adelaide constituency in place of Mr Hawker, deceased.

BESIEGED BY BLACKS.

PORT DAE WIN, June 10,

Two tcamsterß, Mulligan and Ligar, whilst carrying rations to the Victoria Downs Station were attacked by a large body of blacks. Ligar, althongh badly speared, assisted Mulligan to make a barricade among the waggons with flour bags. They stood a siege for three days, and then drove off their assailants with their rifles and escaped. The blacks returned and looted the camp, and then made off.