AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright I PER UNITED PRRSS ASSOCIATION.! ? YPSBT, January 17.
'His Excellency the Governor," acting upon the advice of the new Cabinet; has granted an immediate dissolution of Parliament. The proclamation will be gazetted to-morrow. - ■-. ■, Unless ram falls immediately thou* sands of head of stock will perish in the Warilda district. Bbisbane. January 18. Distressing accounts are coming to hand from Darling Downs and the interior of the south west. The crops are stated to be dyinp off and water disappearing. The heat is excessive. Prbth, January 17. A terrible tragedy is reported from a country district, where a settler named McPherson has been shot dead by an employe . named Johnson. The . latter then turned his attention 1 to Mrp McPherson, whom he battered to death. An 11---ye- old son wa6 also beaten badly about the head, and is not expected to recover A daughter, aged 14, after. witnessing the horrible fate of her parents, fled from the the place, and managed to elude the murderer and effect an escape. Johnson is not yet captured.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 84, 19 January 1889, Page 2
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