Australian News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 333, 7 June 1894, Page 2

Australian News.

* COOLGARDIE GOLDFIELDS. WHITE MAN EATEN BY BLACKS. A REPENTANT JURY. SAD BURNING FATALITY. SUDDEN DEATH IN A CHURCH. (PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION. ' Melbourne, May 29 Tho latest news from Coolgardie shows that the Lady Loch mine has been purchased by English capitalists Further light showers have fa.len, and there is every appearance of the break up of the dry weather. The output from Bayley's Reward claim last week was 7500z5. The water in the deep level is failing now that the full bat tery is working. The Natives at Ninety mile report a white man has been killed and eaten by blacks soma miles out. The unemployed difficulty at the Cue and Marchison goldfields is serious. Large numbers of men are without means of subsistance. A proclamation has been issued for the holding of a special Circuit Court at Tam worth on tho 19th June for the trial of the Barraba murderers. Amongst those who signed the petition in favour of the commutation of the death sentence passed on Mont gomery and William?, the Bridge street burglars, were all the juryman before whom the case was tried. They stated that though they believed the con lemned men were technically guilty of attempting to murder, they did not believe the burglars intended to mur der the constables. Thomas Delaney, who was concerned with another man named Horo in running an illicit still in a forest near Warrnambool, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, without the option of a fine. On the arrival of the barque Ar» thurstone at Newcastle last week she was placed in quarantine. The captain and nearly all the crew were down with yellow fever whilst the 'argue was lying at Rio de Janeiro. Two men died there, uud two others on the voyage to Newcastle. At Thagomiudah, the hotel where a Queennland Ministerial party was staying was entered by burglars, and a quantity of money, jewels, and clo'hea stolen. Mr Leahy, M.L A., lost £12 worth of opals and £3 in money Two men were arrested and committed for trial. Opals were found on them A sad burning fatality is recorded from Swan Hill, Victoria. During Monday a child, five years, named Elizabeth Bruton, went into mallee scrub with some other children to play. They lighted a h*>e, and the little girl's dress caught. Others went to help her and all were terribly burnt They were taken to tho hospital, where the girl Bruton died next morning. At St. Paul's Church, Launceston, while the incumbent (the Rev. A. Bark way) was reading the Litany Mrs Barkway who occupied a pew alone was observed to fall. She was carried out of the building, and medical aid was summoned, but life was found to extinct. The incumbent continued the service. — P<»st correspondent.