AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 58, 6 September 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MOKE BABY- FARMING CASES. A STRANGE INCIDENT. A WOMAN CONCEALS HER SEX FOR YEARS. (PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION). Melbourne, Septembers. The bodies of three iufants, much decomposed, have been unearthed at Branswick, a suburb of Melbourne. The police believe they are on the track of an extensive system of babj-farming which will probably exceed that carried ou by the Makin's in Sydney. A farm laborer near Kilmore, for many years a member of the Mounted Rifles, died, when it was discovered that it was a woman who had successfully concealed her identity for years. Sydney, This Day. The seamen's strike has been declared off iv Melbourne, Adelaide, and Sydney. Parliament meets on September 26. Adelaide, This Day. The Earl of Kintore has decided to hold the Governorship of the Colony for the full term (6 years), though he will be absent from the colony for six months on privato business. Brisbane, This Day. In course of an interview, Sir H. Norman was unable to state why he had been selected as Viceroy of India, as it was an unusual step for the Imperial Government to appoint as old a man to the governor-generalship. He received the first intimation of the appointment on Friday last. Sir H. Norman has accepted the post of Viceroy of India. Hl3 departure is universally regretted. Newcastle, This Day. Sailed — Alcestis, for Dunedin.