AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 129, 31 May 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. [per united press ASSOCIATION. I Sydney, May 29. John Trace, sentenced to death for the murder of John Stapleton, at Armidale about the middle of January last, was executed this morning. A second application for a writ of habeas corpus has been granted in the cases of 43 more Chinese. May 30. The Chinese Conference meets here on 18th June. i The steamer Afghan has sailed for Manilla and taken 70 Chineue who were j refused a landing here. I Melbourne, May 29. j Arthur Daly, a solicitor, has been ar» j rested on a charge forging signatures to j land transfer applications. A number of j similar charges are pending against him, < involving several thousands of pounds, j The death sentences uassed on Halley and Clyde, concerned in * n attack on an | aboriginal woman at Hamilton, have been commuted to eighteen years' imprisonment with floggings. Hob am, May 29. Parliament was opened to»day. The Governor's Speech referred to the intention of raising a new loan. The Customs returns are satisfactory, show a large increaseBbisbaxe, May 29. The master of the bngantme Lochiel, from the Ne^ Hebrides, reports passing the wreck of a vessel, about 800 ton-i, in 28deg S. lat. 1 47 E. long. The name of the derelict was not ascertainable. Mrß- B. Mon'ton Colonial Secretary of the present Government, who- was defeated at the general election, has been raised to the Legislative Council.