Australian News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 57, 31 October 1889, Page 3

Australian News

CAPTUBE OF TWO DESPERATE ■:■'-: : .;.■■-■ ;r-;^0-.; ; CElMiHALS. ; :v s ";T "':, ;•- - ■ : "; -'■ PROPOSED BEAUTY SHOW. (Post's Own Correspondent;) v ; - <t ':-\' : :-.'"'";-:vM'KLBO"UKNKi-'Octpbei: 22: \ v Farrell and l Clark, desperate criminals who escaped J'roni Geelong Gaol, were re- captured >yithin a '; few ..'.'days of each other. vFarrell; who was the .first to be arrested, told the police, that Clark was dying, but he declined to make his 1 whereabouts "'■':-.• knd'w'n'f and :it was after wards 'ascertained [that" the 1 story. was false, the ; - object berng ; to Vtnrow the police off the scent. Farrell offered a. desperate resistance, attacking, the constable with a large ■ knife^tolenlrQm o^ -/•|>efore-'the\--Just^ was violent, causihg^feßencli to remark ; on; tjhe absurdity •'•.of describing Farrell as an invalid, as had been: done by a high official. y^ x' ; ''i';.'^;''-*:" ■'■'"■ r ' K . ■_'. .". .. Owing to. the; great^success of theßaby . . Show^ a Beauty Carnival is to be opened in Melbourne -on; the '■■■ 26th of October, by Philip Slee Stuart, theatrical agent. Two hundred poxincls is^^oftered in prizes. The ■ : competitor's .are; not^ to "younger than fieventeenViand not /to^be required to do r any tMng derogatory to self-respect. ( ; The proposal has % excited /strong opposition, . and. the papers; iare filled with letters iiidighantlyi denouncing ;. the, exhibition. One/ writer; says :— ? Can anyone: for a - moment^ imagine la yotmg lady _of virtue ; «nd respecstabilifcy standing or .sitting, as ■'-■V-thej.'caseJi'iaay-'-bejyvfor''- exhibition, to be gazed at by^ the biacklegs of the racecourse and" the slowest .larrikins, pick-pockets, v and Iburgiars^ of iMelbpuine ; iinid Cpllingwood ? -Whsrt, would^;a7giri 'think if she could:hear the ribald jokes, lewd remarks, disgusting; comparisons^^and profanelan- " quage 1 that :sucH' : speef^tprswoulS be bound to indulge! in ?: f To. my xnind the thing is far too 1 horrible toijthinkjof." , j During a sitting. ;of- the Local Option; : Court at Geblbng it was claimed that 200 per cent, profit: waßniade in the sale of teerancl spirits, serated waters and cigars,' that the/ profit amounted- to ;£665 per year,,ahd that for the ■ remainder of the lease the licensee; was entitled to c6mp.en r \"- : aati6n : to.the':\amouit^ofY ! j£4212.' It was argued that ;the goodwill of the hotel was : valuecl: at ;^lsdQ. $ The levidehce for the that the licensee was riot entitled to 1 more than:;j£ssp, : as the value of the lease could riot have increased »s term l of lease dwindled down from nine years. to six^^and ; a quarter.^ The decision ;'; "-was postrponecL-> , : .;, •. ....•".. : .-.,.-.- . ; Mrs LaaSells, wife of tlieman wlio was hwae; for ;the rriitrder of P. J. 'Sherlock, Ydesired to. re iturn l to. her relations in Bng- - lahd^; but hiving, expended all she posJBessed in -the; defence of her husband, she -is now entirely without; nieans. . Por^ the :of raising funds to; clear her indebtedness in the colony, and pay her passage to England, subscriptions are. being collected. The Telegraph' received one donation of i>lb. , Sydney, October 22. A cablegram received in Sydney states that Edmund Taylor, a member of the late firm of Starkey and Taylor, left Colombo on the 13th October, bytheß.M.S. Arcadia, in charge of Detective Hines. Some startling revelations will be forthcoming at the trial of Taylor, whose word at the bank was good for at least It is stated that Taylor owes the bank about .£200,000. '"-. - Bbisbanb, October 22. With reference to what has been known as the-Geddis mystery, the Courier understands that Messrs M'Donald, Patterson, Fitzgerald, and Hawthorn have made an ofler on account of W. G. Geddis of a sum of i 1440, with 5 per cent, interest, •to tlie Australian Mutual, Provident Society, in; full satisfaction of the society's claim. The represents the amount of the claim, £2250, less the debts of young Geddis, 'and cost of proving the will and administering the estate.' We believe the Society promptly refused this offer, and that startling disclosures with reference to the case are not unlikely to be