Australian Summary.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 201, 28 December 1893, Page 2

Australian Summary.

♦ Melbourne, December 18. Tasman Archer, aged eleven, a son of a hotelkeeper, shot Russel Sutcliff, aged eight years, son of a constable in Launceston. The boys were schoolfellows, and Archer says R*ussell told about his throwing stones at a certain cataract. He threatened Russell, and then bought an old double-barrelled pistol, loaded it with powder and shot, put it close to Russell's face, and fired. The boy is now in the Hospital, with his face much disfigured. His left eye must be taken out, to save the other. His case is critical. There is no doubt about the premeditation, Areher'sown father testifying to the threats he had made. The Graziers' Butchering Company at Brisbane has decided to open an establishment in London for the sale of chilled beef direct to consumers, and develope the wholesale trade j also, if there is sufficient inducement, to open shops in the principal towns of England. Thomas Jordan, a church organist in one of the fashionable suburbs of Melbourne, who was arrested while lying on his stomach close to the ladies' baths, Beaconsfield Parade, and peering through a crevice in the enclosure wall, was fined 10a for insulting behaviour. A shocking tragedy was enacted at Wilcannia, when Myles McGratb, son of the licensee of the Cricketers' Arms Hotel, deliberately shot an old travelling musician named Charles Fellowes in the stomach. Fellowes had come from the White Cliffs opal fields, and was trying to raise some money to send to his wife at Broken HiU. He began to play on his instrument on the footpath opposite the hotel, when McGrath • rushed out and shot him. Fellowes ran sixty yards after being shot, shrieking all the while, and then fell. He was taken to the local Hospital, where he died. McGrath has been ar* rested, and has admitted the crime, but says be intended to fire at the man's legs. He had been unable to sleep for some time past, and had been annoyed by drunken men. McGrath is said ( to be out of his mind, and to have threatened to shoot people on several occasions.— Post's correspond*- v ent. -«-