Australian Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 69, 18 September 1895, Page 2

Australian Items.

Mrs Moss, a young married woman liying in a qoiet part of Echnca East, was found on the morning of August 22nd in a fainting condition, and bleed* ing at the breast from a bullet wound. She said she had been attacked by a Hindoo hawker, who chased her into her bedroom and attempted to assault her. She resisted, and the Hindoo, finding that he could not accomplish his purpose, drew a revolver and shot her under the left breast. Mrs Moss has since confessed that she herself did the shooting, and there was no Hindoo. She says: "I felt very sad, and went into the bedroom. I took the revolver out of the pocket at the head of the bed, inserted an unused cartridge, pulled my clothes open, and fired.?' Her husband had left her thai morning withopt ki£i sing her as usual. • • <• The Full Court in Sydney has ruled that it is an illegal act to sell the return half of a railway ticket, A railway ticket really never ceases to be the property of the Railway Commissioners! as they merely issue it to a person who has paid his fare for a particular journey. It was not a piece of merchandise, but merely a voucher, and therefore the person who sells the ticket would be liable to a penalty under the by-law. Can bowls be played successfully without whisky-drinking was a (question raised at the annual conference of thb Victorian Alliance, and answered in the affirmative." It was urged that under the licensing law permits to sell liquor on cricket, football, and bowling grounds should not be allowed. On this point Mr J. W. Hunt said that when Mr James Munro gave a piece of ground to the Armsdale Bowling Club on condition that no liquor should be sold there, it was said trawlers would nut come there, but they did. It was i|a.id, too, that they couldn't play bowls, without liqdor, : but the Armadale Cllro was now the premie* and held the p^nJ aunt. At the same two country metiibors wished to abolish the sale of liquor it ploughing matches, but the alliance saw the futility of such an attempt, and the statements made it would ap[>car that the Sim pier plan would be to vbolish the ploughing macli. = - * ••»