MURDER AT HIGHFIELD.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1660, 14 June 1875, Page 2

MURDER AT HIGHFIELD.

GRAVING-DOCK AT BRISBANE

A BULLOCK THROWS A TEAIN OFF

THE LINE

QUEENSLAND. June 4. In the Legislative Assembly, fie motion to give a gratuity to Dr Lang was negatived on a division. Trotter, publican, Cooktown, was sentenced, for shooting-at a digger, to three years' imprisonment. ; At a meeting at Ipswich, the formation of a woollen factory company was completed.There are 10,000 £1 shares, and 8,300 were taken up. Westgarth has filed his schedule.

The fancy ball at Government House was a brilliant success.

A butcher at Bockhampton named Jagar assaulred a man named Jackson, and fractured his skull. Jagar delivers himself to the authorities.

Archibald Barkley and Thomas Gibson have been apprehended at Todwoomba, charged with murdering an o'd man named John Sondergeld at Highfield.

The proposed graving dock at South Brisbane will cost, £75,000, the permanent pumping machinery, £6,000 The extreme length of the floor will be 300 feet; the width on the floor, 40 feet; at the top, 70 feet; the width at the entrance, 60 feet; arid the depth at the eel!, 19 feet. 1 he Sybilr, schooner, has arrived at Maryborough from the South Sea Islands, with 113 labourers on board. She reports famine at the Islands through a hurricane, earthquakes, and lidal naves. Miss Carey, the tragedienne, was se:zed with hysterics while playing at the Theatre Royal. The curtain had to be dropped, but the scene was completed afterwards. William Ryan, of Hotham, fell into a hollow in a street there, and was smothered before he conld be extricated.

The death of Mr Aspfhall, the barrister, is reported by the mail.