AUSTRALIAN.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2350, 19 October 1889, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

(Per Press Association. —Copyright.)

(by submarine cable.)

MELBOURNE, Yesterday. Germs which hav.e recently been found in the Yean Yean reservoir have con clusively prove 1 the existence of typhoid bacteria, but samples of the same water tested by Professor Kutz show no trace of microbes.

SYDNEY, Yesterday. Three gentlemen named Chutfield. Rogers, and Taylor, who w'ent on a yachting ciuiie along the coast, have been missiug for ten days, and feare are entertained that the vessel has foundered with all hands.

Mr Henry George, author of “ Progress and Poverty,” will pay a visit to Australia in January. He will then go on a tour through England, and afterwards will devote the whole of his time .to the campaign which he is now organising for the overthrow of Protection in America.

BRISBANE, Yesterday. Two men and two women attempted to bury two infants nlive, but tlie sexton of the church discovered that the children were still living. From the surrounding circumstances it is believed that children have been buried alive on several previous occasions.

A man named Jones, residing at Eids▼old shot his wife twice in the abdomen and struck her on the head with an axe. Jones then shot a man named Summers, inflicting four wounds. Both man and woman are in a critical condition. The act is attributed to infidelity on the part of the wife.