Australian News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 138, 15 May 1890, Page 3

Australian News

A SHOCKING DEATH. NOTABLE BAtfEKUPTCIES., „. (iPoet'i Correspbrident.) ■ Melbouhnk, May 7. Early on Saturday, niorning, the "3rd May, Mrs Call, wife of Mr Call, M.P., was. found in, her bedroom; at her residence, Elstern wick, burned to death. The occupants of the house on Friday, night were Mrs Call, her two daughters, and .servant. . About, half-J»Bt|lJo p;M]the;\ twi> Mislspß M; went' irito v Iheir mother's •< bedroonv* to' : say good night to her, and found her in bed reading a book, with a candle burning on a small table near the side of the bed.: They. retired- to/rest, and heard nothing till about 6 o'clock on Saturday * morning, when they were aroused by a servant, who had been awakened , afser, being » almost ., suf- 1 f ocated' byv - smoke,' which -had permeated the whole house. The young ladies hurried to their mother's bedroom, and as they opened the door were/idri¥e t n^baic£k>' by the gretft volume of smoke which rushed out. The window of the room was forced open from outside, and as soon ac it .was possible to enter they went m and found the remnants of .the mattrapses and bedclothes still smouldering on the .'bedstead, aad on the floor they discovered >tUe > <ood$ : of their mother, charred and blackened almost .rjasit recognition. It is supposed that the? deceased fell, asleep while reading and that somehow the bedclothes caught fire. She was ! sixty; years of age, and leaves a grown <up family, some married. Mr James Mirams' statement shows liabilities £373,000, and asserts, (consisting chiefly of ; landed property), £370,000, the deficiency being £3000. 3-he Souijh Australian Kegister is publishing 7 a> series of articles giving the opinions of manufacturers and producers on the advantage' Or otherwise of intercolonial free-trade, and so far the balance iof opinion appears to be in favour of federation on a basis of intercolonial freetrade. . : .• „ There was the /usual excitement at the midday meeting of the Stock Exchange of Adelaide on 6th May, when, it became known that one of the lead ing speculators was unable to deliver a large quantity of stock which he had sold. He was known as a ' speo' seller, that is a speculator who sold shares in anticipation of a fall, intending when they had come down to buy: in, and supply the people to whom he had sold at a higher price: Unfortunately for the dealer in question; the market went against him, raising rapidly, and he found . himself oversold on 2790- shares including all the leading lines, of stocks in the Barrier mines. It, was only the day before that a meeting of creditors of another broker , named Simon Barnard was held, his liabilities being £13,000 against assets, mostly book debts, of £1820. ________^_ ■ (For continuation of Reading Matter see • ■' , fourth page./