AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 69, 29 November 1892, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(PEB PEESS ASSOCIATION). Melbourne, November 28. The police aie of opinion that the Hawthorn mystery is something more than a practical joke. Medical men are of opinion that the legs were cut off while the body was warm. November 29. A man named Pender was arrested on a charge of stabbing his wife, and subsequently admitted to bail. He followed her to Rutherglen, entered the house, and shot her and a man named Hourigan. Both victims were dangerously wounded. Pender removed the children, and then aeb fir<» to the honaa. Sydney, November 28. The jury in the alleged baby farming case at MacDonaldtown returned a yer diet of manslaughter against Mr and Mrs Mackm. A pathetic scene occurred in Court during the day. Mrs Mackm, after exhorting the children not to cry aud imploring Grod for justice, fell prestrate on the floor. The inquest on the bodies found at Redfern opens on Wednesday, These are the cases in which it is believed the children were murdered by puncturing their hearts. November 29. Sailed, Alameda for Frisco, she has specie to the value of £100,000 and 250 tons of exhibits for Chicago. Brisbane, This Day. The men lost on their way to the Batavia River Rush have been rescued through their cutting the telegraph wires. Suaxim, November 27. Over 100 of Oaman Digna's followers have been killed in the recent skirmishes on the coast.