Australian Summary.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 279, 1 June 1896, Page 2

Australian Summary.

KILLED IN SIGHT OF HIS | BROTHER. SENSATIONAL GOLD ROBBERY, j ACTION BY MONEY LENDERS. PATHETIC DROWNING ACCIDENT. A frightful accident occurred at the Buninyong Estate Company's claim, Ballarat, resulting in the instantaneous death of a young man named Augustus Kent, 21 years of age. The unfortunate young fellow, who was the eldest son of tbe manager, was employed as pngine-driver at the mine. At about halt-past eleven he was standing between the fly wheel and the crownwheel of the pumping machinery, in the act of oiling the bearings. His brother Percy was present, and they were keeping up a conversation. This apparently distracted the driver's attention, for he uttered a scream, and his clothing was seen to be caught by the fly-wheel. Before a hand could be raised to stop the engine he was whirled round and crushed into a shapeless mass. The Inspector of Mines visited the scene of the catastrophe, and he does not attach any blame to the company. A sensational robbery of gold has taken place at Coolgardie. A specimen was found at Nolan's mine, Feysville, which contained 720z of gold. It was on exhibition in the window of Mr Caris' jewellery shop, and as that gentleman was taking the jewellery from the window at night a brick was thrown at the window from the street, shatter - tering the glass. Immediately a hand was inserted, and the specimen taken. Mr Caris jumped over the counter in pursuit of the thief, but his eyes being dazzled on coming out of tbe light be lost sight of the man, who has not since been heard of. In addition to the specimen, wbich was valued at £280, two bangles valued at £9 are missing. Another illustration of the heavy rates of interest levied by some money lenders on tbeir clients was given at Melbourne in tbe case of Hayling v. Gould. The plaintiff was Ellen Hayling, trading as Hayling and Co., money lenders, and sbe demanded £130 from tbe defendant, H. F. Gould, sharebroker, Tbis sum represented two loans, amounting to £10, and interest for only eight weeks on this amounting to £60. By consent, judgment was entered against the defendant for £'130 and costs, the cost to be paid within 10 days, and the judgment debt by monthly instalments of £20 up to £95, when the defendant will obtain a release from further liability. Alfred Wilson, carpenter, aged 26 years, in company with a man named Snowball and two boys, went fishing off the West Beach, Esperance, Western Australia. Wilson took off his boots and tried to get on a big rock, off which Mr Raeside the Government surveyor, was drowned last year. The others stayed on the hillside and saw him slip off the rock into the, sea. He made several attempts to gain the shore, but a heavy swell prevented him from securing a footing. He tried at another rock and failed to get on, and than swam about for over a quarter of an hour, after which he was heard to call out, " My God, I can't struggle any longer." The man was last seen with his head downwards floating towards the sea. The body has not yet been recovered. At the Hobart criminal sittings Frederick Hudson (28) was sentenced to two years' goal for abducting Emily Jane Cragg, a girl under to age of 15.