NEW SOUTH WALES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1825, 26 April 1888, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sydney, April 25. The House last night agreed to vote' one thousand pounds as a grant to the widow of Wirrall, gatekeeper at the Homebush railway station, who lost his life in unsuccessfully attempting to rescue a child wandering on the railway line from an approaching train. Sir H. Parkes, in submitting the vote to the House eulogised the action of Wirrall as an example of brilliant heroism.

An extensive three-storey grocery warehouse in George street, occupied by Barlow Bros., was considerably damaged by fire last night. The stock was insured for The damage is estimated at from to ;£15,000. Benfield, postmaster at Palmer's Island, Clarence River, has been arrested for embezzling about a thousand pounds of Government money. Smith, the principal witness in the Mount Rennie outrage, while in Bathurst gaol awaiting sentence on a charge of arson, for which he had been convicted, came face to face with Donellan, a youth concerned in the Mount Rennie outrage, but whose sentence of death had been commuted. The latter rushed Smith and attempted to strangle him. The gaol warder overpowered Donellan and removed Smith to a place of safety. i A large proportion of the ammunition imported from England tor use in the heavy guns placed in the batteries at the Heads has been condemned by the Military Board. His Excellency Governor Lord Carrington, accompanied by Lady Carrington, left to-day in H.M.S. Nelson on an official visit to Norfolk Island. His Excellency will return in about three weeks.