AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3648, 19 November 1895, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

. :i ■ ;■■•.-■ : ' »- ;■ - ■: I (by electric telegraph.-c6pyright). , a Sydney, November 18. The mail steamer from the. Islands brings news W,the' Roman : Cathfclic mission station at japiton; in 'the : 'Gilbert Group, 'together with a lot of valuable property, was. set: ;on-lire, by./the. natives and com;pletely ! Mr Swayne, the. British, Commissioner, has, successfully initiated [ t a new form of government in the Ellice and Gilbert ! Groups.' Eaclj;group will now be entirely governed by a native 1 !chief, : assisted by a I magistrate and resident Commissioner, i having final jurisdiction.* These Islands are flourishing under the protectorate established, three years ago. ■ i ■., While Constable Sealy was conveying two prisoners by train, the captives attacked and nearly killed him, subsequently effecting their escape. His assistants were leg ironed, but not handcuffed. They took 'the keys of the irons* and haying unlocked tbem, battered (the unfortunate constable witli them They then robbed him "of JB29,and having changed their prison clothes for others that were in their swags/they jumped off the train as lit was slowing down, and all efforts to ,recapture them ,haye;proved:futile, Sealy is still in a ., . . .-■ ■■ '*■ ' Blelbourne,'November 18. , ' 'MrW. R. Wilson, 'has'' .repurchased privately' Iridisford, the mares Melodius, Happy Land, Lotty, Carbine, Elsie,' and the two-year-old Trenton colt. ; : ■■ *■ ■