SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 322, 20 January 1871, Page 2

SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

A Woman Murders Six of her

Children.

SYDNEY

January 14. —About 160 quarrymen are at work on the defences. —A woman near Bombala cut the throats of six of her children and then cut her own.—Mr. Gilmour has returned to BuHo and reports that, there is every pro liability of a survivor of Leichardt's party living with the blacks.—The masonry of the new Post Office is almost complete.—The Carpentaria telegraph line has been completed as far as Cashmere. MELBOURNE. January 11.—The Victorian Sugar Company have a-ivancrd their rates £2 per ton all round.— Mr. Jame-t Scott, solicitor, was acquitted on a churge of giving a plug of tobacco to a prisoner under conviction. —The landlord of the Cafe Turque, Ball irat, has been fined £20 for permitting his waitress to wear short dresses.—The Great Britain, s., has cleared with 41,000 ounces of gold, 2000 bales of wool, and 270 passengers. —The flection meetings have commenced, and the Ministerial manifesto is anxiously looked for. —At auction flour realised £13 17s. 6d. to £14; wheat, 6s. January 12. —The gardens of the Acclimatisation society had a narrow escape from destruction yesterday, through some children setting fire to the grass. —Professor Hughes has filed his schedule. Professor Halford has been elected President of the Medical Society for the ensuing year. —A large deputation waited on the Government, requesting that a railway might be constructed from Castlemaine to St. Arnaud, through the central part of the district. The Government are not inclined to entertain the proposal.—Workmen are busy erecting the chimes at the Post-office tower.

January 13.—At the Protection League meeting, last night, several members of Parliament were present, and spoke in favor of the principles of the League.—Harris and Hewitt, are to run at Launeeston on the 23rd January.—Tho dissolution of Parliament is expected after the departure of the mail.— The master printers have taken steps to secure payment lor election printing, as the Act prohibits suing for it. —Adelaide wheat is q.iotedat 6s. 3d.; 100 tons of Adelaide flour sold at auction at £13 7s. Gd.—The wool sales are less active. 1150 bales were sold. Greasy brought 6d. toSJd- ; fleece, I2d. to 13^d.