AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12883, 25 September 1909, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

WHITE WOMAN* TOMAHAWKED. A tragedy occurred at Morec, New Soutl Walps. on Saturday night, September U .vheti a white woman, May Phillips, about l-'j years ot age, ana iuown as May A) iJiiek, was l.iiind 1o lav: been brutallj ( iiiur-eeriva in a cottage in a la.no off Hebe Street, near the Chinese jo99house. Dccer.*hl had been living for aboui ten yeaiL with Ah Duck, a Chinese labour- 1, wh was l-econtly s.-ntci cud to tiiroe months imprisonment in Tamworth Gaol foj teoimg a house for the purpose of opium smoking. While ho was in gaol, anothei Chinese labourer, Ah Sing, resided wit deceased. When Ah Duck returned tt Moree the two Chinese and May Phillip. 1 lived together in. the same house. Al. Duck afterwards went to another Chines^ residence in the town,, leaving Ah Sin£ and deceased- in the house. Ah Duck states on returning at 11.30 ho dis covered deceased lying on the kitchen floor, covered with wounds, , apparently dead. He informed tho police,' who found chat deceased had been murdered. The skull was cut right through to the brain.. Apparently by a tomahawk, and tho forehead laid open by a similar instrument. There were marks of • two severe blows oi ' a tomahawk over the left eye. A bloodstained tomahawk was picked up in tho kitchen next morning. Dr Magill saw the deceased, who had then been dead some time He thinks she must have been killed instantaneously. At about 3 o'clock on Sunday morning Senior-Sergeant Hill arrested Ah Sing in the street, and lodged him in tho. lock-up. It is understood that blood was found on his clothes. A number of the Chinese of Moree — shopkeepers, gardeners, and labourers^ — have white women livir~ with them. FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. Whilst returniag from a service at Kilmore (Victoria), the- Rev. Father Martin, of St. Patlmck's Church, Kilmore, who was accompanied by a driver named Thomas Kelly, a single man,. 32 years of age, mot with a sensational accident. Keliy was -driving a new motor buggy, when the brake refased to act as the vehicie was diescending a. hill. The car skidded an<l Kelly lest control. It ran into an ombankmeut, and both occupants were thrown out. Fortunately Father Martin escaped with a few bruises, but Kelly was pinned underneath tho car when it capsized. Tie accident took place on a lonely «"omcl, Auvi Father Martin had to travel nearly a :nilo for assistance. On his return it took four men *o jift the ear .iff Kolly, who was found to be dead. DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. A terrific dynamite oxplcsion occurred .it the Lady Clare mine, Donkey Hill, South Australia, on September 14th. It appears that five packets of dynamite were in the blacksmith's shop, preparatory to uoing put in Iho magazine. One of the party was startled to see the dynamite tizzling, and, raising the alarm, enabled the employees to get away. Th© force of the explosion effaced the shop and surface building. Sheets of galvaniasd iron were found embedded in trees yards away. The contents of the- surface buildings were lestroyed. STABBING AFFRAY AT WOLLONGONG. A stabbing affray occurred near tho cross roads, Woollongong, on Saturday week, when a man naried Barrett, 70 years of aure, inflicted a wound about 3in. long by lin. deep, in the thipii of Sidney Denham. It appears that a party left WoJongong in a coach at about 11.30, and on .trrival near Barrett's home, Mrs Barrett "at out of th© coach, and shertly after 1 yards Barrett commenced to create a disturbance, alleging A1 -' some person had takon some beer which he had in his possession. Denham, it i 3 stated, went to tell the old man, where his beei was, in oruer to na-cify him, when Barrett, it is allowed, pliinged forward with a knife, ana inflicted tho wound. Denham was conveyed to the local hospital. He had lost • considerable quantity of blood. the •oach being saturated. Barrett was subsequently arrested. TWO BABIES MAIMED. Two infants of Mesdames Hogan and "\fotley were left in a perambulator in Central Market, Adelaide, while the mothers ■.vent shopping. Suddenly tho perambulator started, and ran in front of a horse attached to a vehicle. The animal became frightened, reared, and brought his ?ore feet on top of the perambulator, smashing it, and injuring the children severely. One baby's face was crushed, and the other sustained a serious injury to tbe back.

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