AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
Melbourne, Nov. 13. Win. Thomas Knowles, who has confessed to the murder of F. M. Bates, says he has committed three other murders and several large robberies. He says he was compelled to confess by joining the Salvation Army. He sent the detectives on a lot of wild goose chases, digging up stones in secluded paddocks, and tearing up a hearth stone in one house, acting on his information. He is evidently mad, and his confessions are not believed.
Some eight passengers, chiefly mechanics returned by the barque Leopold from South Africa, giving a very gloomy account of the state of matters there as far as the industrial classes are concerned.
Signor Verdi, opera singer, has filed his schedule.
The reward for the discovery of the perpetrator of the Commercial Bank robberies was apportioned as follows :—SubInspector Brown, LIOO ; Detective Mackay, L6O ; Detectives Nixon and Ward, LSO each ; Detectives Oonsidine and Porter, L3O each ; three constables, LlO each ; A. A. Corbett, L2OO ; Maud .Corbett, L 150; Emily Corbett, LSO ; Henry Thorne, L 225 ; Edward Davis, L 25. About 100 c ises have been instituted against country publicans under the Trade Marks Statute by the Customs officers.
The Salvation Army barracks at Williamstown have been placed in the charge of “Captain” Jeannie W. White, a young woman from New Zealand. Adelaide, Nov. 13. An experienced report estimates the yield of wheat to be from eight to ten bushels of good plump grain. The Chinaman Mah Poo has been hanged for the murder of his countryman. Brisbane, Nov. 13. The captain and second mate and two of the crew of the labor schooner Alfred Vithery have been arrested tor the murder of a Kanaka on board a vessel at sea.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1003, 19 November 1883, Page 2
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290AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1003, 19 November 1883, Page 2
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