LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Star, Issue 4130, 23 May 1876, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

(Per Hero at Auckland.)

Margaret Turnbull has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for killing her infant at ’Collingwood. A brutal outrage has been committed on Mrs Bumbold in South Yarra. She was suddenly seized by men, thrown down in tho channel by a ruffian, who dashed her head against the korbing, gagged her, and then attempted to commit a rape. Henry Peggells, a passenger by the Silverstream from Newcastle, while suffering from delirium tremens jumped overboard and was drowned. The woman Arnold, charged with manslaughter of her child at Inglewood, is committed for trial. The Glenelg railway showed a net profit of over L 4.000 for the half year, and a dividend of 10s a share was declared.

The Victorian Executive decided that Dnffics, convicted of crimirally assaulting his two children at Sandhurst, shall be hanged. Mactnalion, charged with a similar offence, had his sentence commuted to sixteen years* imprisonment, the first three years in irons. . At a meeting of the Council of the Rifle Association held at Melbourne.it was decided to nominate Mr Daugar, of New South Wales, as captain of the combined team for the Philadelphia Rifle Match. The fund has now reached L 1,015. Tho Bench at Brisbane dismissed the charge against the master of the ship Penrith for not taking due steps to save the life of a seaman who fell overboard during a voyage from Glasgow. A committee has been formed in Sydney to take action in reference to the proposed Italian immigration. The reward for information leading to the conviction of the Seymour bank robber Las been increased to L2OO.

Dalby, convicted of rape at Balmain, bos been sentenced to death.