AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 131, 29 April 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

~«. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydket. Apnl 26. The town of Louth is now in a similar condition to. Bourke. On the same night as a man was murdered in the Domain another man was badly stabbed in Hyde Park. The atrocities are believed to be the work of a maniac The grade at Baglan where- the couplings of the trucks gave way ib one in 40, and it is estimated that in the descent the runaway train attained a speed at the rate of 80 .miles an hour. Eight hundred sheep stowed m the trucks were killed and added to the terrible nature of the scene. Inside the boiler, which wasstove in, were found portions of the brake-van, clothing, and cushions as well as human flesh and blood. The driver and fireman of the Bourke train gallantly remained at their posts, and fortunately were but slightly injured. Maud Bedford, one of those injured, died to day making, four victims. The injured are progressing favourably. At the annual meeting of the; Mutual Life Association of Australasia the pro* ceedings were most harmonious. The report showed the business to have increased to a large extent and the yearly revenue to be £187,000. The invested funds j amount to £735,000. Bbisbanr, April 28. The Marine Board has decided that the ill-fated steamer Quetta struck on an unknown rock. Meiboubnb, April 28. The -Government chemist is not sanguine that Mr Smith Ellis' specific for rust invwheat will prove effectual, and the Commissioner of Lands for South Australia thinks his recommendations are opposed to their experience in the northern portion of the colony.