AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 95, 9 February 1892, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Lp^u united press association.] Sydney, February 7. Nothing authentic is 1 known 0,3 to the exact reasons for Mr Dibbs' proposed visit to London, but the assumption contained in the cables from London to-day, that this visit is due to an extensive conversion scheme, will probably be found to be true. In tho course of their investigation the police discovered a man named Mackow, with his throat cud, in the vicinity of the quarter were the woman was atrociously murdered on Friday night. He confessed that he had murdered the woman, who was his wife, m a fit of jealous}'. Mackay's wound is not likely to prove fatal. Twenty years ago Mackow's brother was hanged in Sydney for a similar offence. The Government intend to introduce a Bill immediately to facilitate tho export of frozen meat. It empowers pastoralists to tax themselves to provide a fund to pay a subsidy, and to establish freezing depots in country districts. Adelaide, February 7, The Earl of Kintore emphatically denies that he is to be transferred to New Zealand in succession to Lord Onslow, and says he cannot imagine how the rumour originated.