AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 84, 5 January 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

'TKU PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, January 4. A man named Everard has been arrested <'ii suspicion of having committed Hie outrage on the woman Morrison, who died from effect* of ill usage. The pri» son« i r crented a. sensation a few years atfo by assaulting women, and earned tlu 1 soubriquet of Jack the Kipper.' A fierce southerly gale is rag ng. A bout siv.-unped on the Parrarmuta, and two men named Atkinson and Dempsey were drowned. Tlie Monowai encountered the full force of the gale in the run across from Auckland, and her deck cabins were washed out b3 r heavy seas i>rpaking on board. At a meeting of directors of AngloAustralian.lnvestmentiiud Finance Company, it was decided to call a meeting of shareholders for the 17th iust. to con sider a proposal to wind up the institution unier the supervision i>f the court. Mr J. See, Colonial Trea>urer, an noiinee- that since the financial Statement was made in December, the returns slio.v n deficit of LlO6 OOi), making a total deficiency of LIBS,')DO for the year He states that the Government nre hopeful »f effecting savings in the authorised expenditure sufficient to wipe out the deficiency forJDecember. This Day. Dunn" the past year tho Sydney mint issued 2,837,000 soy*. Mkluournk. This Day. Tho Attorney- General has instructed tho frown Officers to prosecute Sir M. Daveys and Messrs James Bell, M,L.C, T. 11. Muntzand Andei.son, and tbo whole of the Melbourne Directors of the Mercantile Bank of Australia, Mr Milledrew, late manager, and Messrs Ellis and Richardson auditors, on the charge of issuing, in February last, a false and ruisleiidin^r bahiuco shoot. Influenza is again very preyalent and a larjjo number aro prostrated. l)i Crosswell prodic:s the return of the cholera epidomic on tlie contmont.