AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [per united press association. I Stdnet, Noyerober 27. The position as regarding the rabbit pest is daily becoming alarming as they are swarming in Millions along the Lach* lan, Darling, and Murrumbidgee rirers eating up all before (hem, A scene of Komewhat sensational character took place in the Theat • Uoyal to night. It appears that a seaman named Pajne, belonging to one of the British warships in the harbour, who. was apparently under the influence of liquor, sereral times disturbed the performance, and at the end of the act the doorkeeper remonstratei with him. Payne there* upon re-entered the theatre, jumped on (he stage, and drawing a rerolver, shot himself seriously in the groin. This Day. Payne who created sensation by attempting to commit puicide on the atage of the Theatre Bojal on Thursday night, belonged to H.M.S. Orlando. He is in a critical state. Bbisbanf, This Day. An epeiemi'j of scar ana has broken out in the city, and the disease, which is of a very dangerous type, is spreading rapidly. Mkxbopbne, November 28. A revolting murder is reported from Mount Kiddle. The naked trunk of a man, supposed to be an Indian hawker, has been discovered, the seyeral limbs being found some three hundred yards away.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 70, 29 November 1890, Page 2
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