AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. I PER UN (TED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Melboubnb, May 4. The New Zealand frozen fish ex steamer Mararoa are being sold at satisfactory prices. Mr Hayter, the Government statist, estimates the population of the colonies at the end of laat year as follows : — Victoria, 1,090,086 , New South Wales, 1,085,356 ; New Zealand, 607,380 ; Queensland, 387,463; South Australia, 313,065; Western Australian, 42,137; Tasmania, 146,147. Bbibbanb, May 4. ; The man Hogan has been sentenced to death for the murder of Gilfyle, near Haberton. Stdket, Mays. A double murder and suicide is reported from Pyrmont, one of the city suburbs. A commercial traveller named John Monaghan took a revolver and shot his wife, aged 21 years, thrice through the heud, and his child, aged three years, once, the injuries inflicted proved fatal in each case. Monaghan then committed 6uicids. The cause of the deed is attributed to domestic infelicity.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 129, 7 May 1889, Page 2
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