AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 203, 30 December 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE CHILD MURDER CASE. SENTENCE OF DEATH TO BE CARRIED OUT. TURN OF THE FINANCIAL TIDE. THE CRICKET SCANDAL. (PEK PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, December 29 A meeting of the Executive was held to-day, when it was decided that the capital sentence passed on Mrs Knorr should be carried out. The yacht Irex, capsized yesterday between Broken Hill and Sydney. Her two occupants were rescued after being nine hours in the water. This Day. The Execution q! Mrs Knorr is fixed for January 15th. Kerr, cyclist, states he has no present intention of making a match with Mintzes, champion cychst of Cape Colony. The Treasurer is sanguine that there will be a surplus at the end of the year, and declares his expectations of the revenue have been more than realised, also that in spite of the unprecedented year of financial difficulties he will be able to present an excellent array of figures, and had no hesitation in saying that the colony is now in a financial position, and unless something unforeseen happened, the coming year would be a highly satisfactory and prosperous one. The cricket council has concluded its investigations, and found, as no evidence was offered by the gentlemap who made certain statements, it cannot pronounce an opinion on the dissensions; also, that as far as the statements made by members of the team go, it seemed evident the desire was to belittle and to hush up the whole matter. The following associated colleries will close until the times improves :— Cooperative, Rown's Colleries, Merthyr, Duckenfield, Dudley, Greta, and West Wallsend. Melbouine, Thii Day. The Leougatha labor colony proved a failure chiefly owing to the unsuitable character of the laud which was too heavily timbered to permit of its being easily cleared. The Government have abandoned the idea of sending to America for a railway expert. Adelaide, This Day The authorities of the "New Australia" Association believe the men expelled from the settlement in Paraguay are identical with some who caused trouble in Monte Video owing to their drunken habits. The Mount Morgan Company has applied for six months' exemption from the labor conditions for the whole of the Company's property outside the freehold, on the ground of the present unprofitable nature of the workings. The granting of this application will enable the Company to dispense with the labor of nearly 200 men.