AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 69, 19 September 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE CLARA PARKER CASE. FURTHER- DEVELOPEMENTS. TWO SHIPS ASHORE. MEASLES AMONGST THE BLACKS. DOGS DEVOURING THE BODIES. (PER FRESB ASSOCIATION.) Sydney. This Day. The weather for the second clay's racing is cold and rain is falling, The verdict upon the death of the man Liddle was that he was shot by misadventure. Memjoubne, This Day. The Clara Parker case has assumed another phase. A man named Peters has, on the information of Clara, been arrested on a charge of abducting her while she was awaiting her trial to answer the charge of having forged Clarke's name to promissory notes. The prosecution of the Directors and officials of the Mercantile Bank has begun. Adelaide, This Day. Two 6hips, the- Geuista, 1799 tons, from Cardiff, and Orontes, 1318 tons, from Barry, South Wales, have gone ashore in Spencer Gulf, within a, short distance of one another. No other particulars are to baud. Bbisbane, This Day. There is great mortality among the blacks in Normantown, from measles, and attention has been drawn to the disgraceful interment of the bodies. In the majority of cases, the remains were only covered with earth and the dogs have footed up and devoured the bodies. Replying to Sir T. Mcllwraith's telegram, announcing that he would ask Parliament to subsidise the Vancouver line, on condition that the vessels called at Brisbane and Keppel Bay, Sir G. Dibbs wired, " One port or the other, but not both." Mr Mcllwraith's rejoinder was curt, "Both or none." Sir George Dibbs retaliated in a monosyllable " None." The upshot of the difference between the two Premiers, is that the Miowera, leaving Sydney to-day, will not call at Brisbane. The passengers and mails had to be sent to Sydney by train, and the steamer was detained till they arrived.