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Received on Dec 24, at 10 a.m - ; - Syivney, Dec 24 :, .'lVwb little girls named Crouch, and a nurse girl named Wilson, were drowned in / a water hole at Orange. It is Bupposed/ one child fell in and the others perishodj in attempting to rescue her. ' N Melbourne, Dec 24. ( , Government are sending Home Mr Lidi ' gey, one of assistant geologists, to supply intending investors with up-to-date idfonnation of the colony's mineral resources, without booming the mining interest. . j Adelaide, Dec 24. A meeting tof the Methodist federal Council resolved the Methodist Union shall take place in April. (Received Dec 26, jit 5:10 p.m.) Melbourne, Dec 26. The Bendigo miners have resolved upon a leyy of 3d per member weekly^ in • aid of the engineer's strike. Sydney, Dec 25. A criminal libel again 1 st John Norton, of Truth, and George Lonsdale, has been tried at Armadale for making accusations against the Minister of Lands in connection with land transactions, and a sensational phase, has been given to the case by one of Norton's witnesses, a womanj making allegation r of immorality, againsjb Mr Carruthers. The Judge prohibited the publication of the evidence till either side is heard.
Perth, Dec 25.
A bdy, 17 years of age, named Mariin, was sentenced to death for poisoning his sister. He administered arsenic in a cordial to several persons and the sister died. The motive was jealousy.
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West Coast Times, Issue 10671, 27 December 1897, Page 2
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