AUSTRALIAN GABLES.
DEATH SENTENCES. A SCHOONER STRANDED. DISASTROUS DROUGHT. [Per Press Association.] Sydney, October 18. The death sentence has been passed on Whitley for shooting his wife at Dubbo; and Wilson's death sentence for an attempt to murder Hampton, whose life was insured in his favor, was commuted to imprisonment for life. Owing to the persistent under-cutting amongst the northern coal-owners, miners have grave fears of a further General reduction in the hewing rate. Reductions are already enforced in a number of pits. Should a general reduction be enforced, a strike is threatened. Brisbane, October 18. The schooner Sarah Pile, from New Zealand to Rockhampton, with a cargo of timber, was stranded yesterday morning on Break Sea Spit. The crew stood by till night and then landed at Sandy Cape. They suffered greatly from exposure to the heavy breakers. The schooner was afterwards floated off, and was last seen seventeen miles to westward of the Cape, drifting water-logged. The Sarah Pile and freight are insured in the Alliance office. Adelaide, This Day. The drought continues and gloomy reports are received of the wheat harvest Wheat is hardening, and holders of stocks are keeping back supplies. Wheat is quoted at 8a to 3s 33.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 96, 19 October 1895, Page 2
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203AUSTRALIAN GABLES. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 96, 19 October 1895, Page 2
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