Australian News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 150, 8 June 1893, Page 4

Australian News

A form labourer livine: at the house of Jebez Flowers, farmer, Smithfield, South Australia, was coming out of the house with a loaded gun, when Albert Flowers, eight year* of age, ran iiito him. causing the gun to explode. The contents entered the man's chest, and he died in twenty minutes. Madame Antoinette Sterling, the eminent vocalist, appeared for the first time in Australia in the Adelaiae Town Hall, before a large and faebionable au'iieztce, including the Governor. She met with a most enthusiastic reception and all her numbers were encored. She will come to New Zealand at the end of June, opening in InvercargiU. Another diver is reported to have died recently through -working in deep wa*er off Damley Island, near Thursday Island. This is the twelfth death from diving within a lew months in the same locality. Death in nenrly all cases was very 6udden. 'J he divers did not even complain when tbev came to the surface, but they became ill Bhortly afterwards, deuth resulting within a couple of hours in many cases, while in others in about twelve hours. Paralysis commences in the lower limbs, and spreads rapidly upwards. The lugger Little Jack has arrived at Thursday Island, bringing seven mainland natives who formed part of a boat's crew which watt reported to be lost. Recently the men were found on the island in a starving state. They report that during tbe first night out both the whites, who were named William and Andrew Jacobsen, became arunk, and insisted upon sailing despite strong winds. The boat caj.»Bized ,and all hands started to swim ior Cope I«Ja»d. Sbortiy after they started, tbe two white men disappeared and then a native. Another native was bitten by a shark, but escaped with a bad flesh wound. The seven survivors reached land during the night, and they subsisted on shell fish until rescued.