Australian Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 93, 26 January 1893, Page 2

Australian Items

■■■'■■ — . 1 .i A peculiar action was brought in Melbourne by a woman named Jones against her husband, from whom she bad secured a divorce. After the de vorce she went back as his housekeeper, and now summoned him for wages, and obtained a verdict for Ll2. A sentence of three months was imposed upon a carter named James Hurray, at Sydney, for having stolen half-a-chest of tea belonging- to the A.US.N. Com* pany. While employed at the wharf in carting tea he was noticed to parti v empty one chest into the nosebag oF his horse. The other night a woman was ad» mi t tod to the waiting room of Mr Ridley, dentist, of Sydney, while the servant went to inform Mr Ridley that a patient desired to see him. On the return of the servant the woman had disappeared, and lefc in the room' a bady which she had been carrying. Heartrending reports have been lately received of the state of .the country between Charleville and the Paroo River, in Queensland. The squatters are dii> charging hands and' leaving cattle to their fate owing to the drought. Unless r<un soon falls the death rate of cattle will be enormous. Three little girls were charged in Melbourne lately with committing no fever than ten robberies. They waylaid other children going shopping, and relieved them of all they had. One child going to buy stockings for her mother was bailed up and robbed ot half-a- sovereign. They were remanded. A settler named Albert Teomans met with a frightful death at Queanbeyan (New South Wales) lately. He was proceeding home on a railway tricycle, and when about a pule from the end of his journey he was met by a train. The tricycle' was smashed, and the body of the unfortunate man was cut into frags menls. — Post's correspondent.