Australian News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 115, 22 March 1890, Page 4

Australian News

Melbourne, March it. Frederick Ray, a farmer, was fined _2 100 for flogging an itidustrial school boy with unneceissary sieverity.' Miss Gladys made a successful parachute descent at Melbourne .last week, in the presence of 10,000 spectators. She ascended 50,00 feet, permorming on the trapeze in the ascent. The parachute descended in St Kilda road, near the Barracks, and the aeronaut, whose track had been followed by James M'Mahon on horseback!, was put"; into a cab find taken back to the grounds, " all well." The balloon dropped- into th« bay about a mile and a half from Port Melbourne, i A boat was sent out .from H.M.S. Nelson and it was brought safely on board. Another ■ascent V t as.°aade by' Miss Van Tasfiell's younger sister Valeric the following "night. • « . • Dr J. W. Rose, ex-M.L.A., is again figuring as co-respondent in a divorce ! euit, the petitioner: being Mr Joseph /Wilding, a baker. „ A large conW is reported to have been segu in" Melbourne. Reuben Kirl, a well-known figure In this city and sporting circles, has been arrested on a charge of forging an order for £2000/ Prisoner was promoter of the Preston Railway Reserve Co, "and in~this capacity had full control of the finances. A gum of £2000, representing the paid-up capital, was expended, by him, as allegedly "him, in the interest of the -company, but the shareholders, becoming suspicious of his honesty, declined to hand over any further sums to j his custody. A series of stormy meetings were held, and culminated in a general meeting of shareholders, at which Kirl was accused by Sir Archibald Michie of having forged his name and that of Mr Chapman, a director, to a bill for £2000. . ICirl at -unce acknowledged his guilt, and implored the shareholders to spare him for the sake of bis relatives. ' During the last four years Kirl has appeared in town as lay missionary, doctor, land speculator, newspaper proprietor, and owner of a pony stud. , An. epidemic of diphtheria has broken out at Elsternwick, a suburb of Melbourne. During the land fever period houses were "run up" with femarkable rapidity on land where no provision was made to carry off the surface -drainage .. or smaller refuse, from the dwellings. Neglect to provide proper drainage Is the cause of the outbreak. ' p • At the inigisterial inquiry into the cause of the death of a young man named George Davidson, the evidence showed that deceased was training, for the Easter Sports and at the finish of a trial spin dropped dead at the tape. The testimony of Dr Taylor showed j that death resulted from the rupture of a blood vessel of the lungs, and the magistrate found accordingly.