AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, December 30. Many thousands of acres of grass and 1 wheat hove been destroyed by bush fires 1 in the Wag, f a and Albury districts, and [ in some cases live stock, houses, and | fencing were also burnt. Several selectors ' are ruiued. I At the inquest on the body of the ' woman Morrison, alleged to have been 1 maltreated by a band of larrikins in Paddington, the coroner's jury returned 1 a verdict of wilful murder against some 1 person or persons unknown. f Melboubne. December 30. \ Three hundred tons of butter, valued ' at £35,000, have been shipped to London. ' This is the largest consignment yet sent. At the wool sales competition was brisk, and prices steady. Greasy merinos ' brought up to lid per lb, scoured to Is ' 2|d. 3 Newcastle, December 30. Mr Mathison, chief officer of the ship Port Glasgow, was killed instantaneously 1 by a block falling on him from aloft. \ [The Port Glasgow is the vessel whose : crew and second mate were recently lm- ) prisoned in Sydney for disobeying orders, j 1 They accused the captain of cowardice \ at sea, and at the enquiry into the charges brought by them the chief officer was the , captain's principal witness.]
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 82, 31 December 1892, Page 2
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