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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 283, 3 June 1897, Page 2

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«. iPer Press Association.! Adelaide. Juue 2. The massacre of Dr Elliot in Africa is denied. He is reported (o be somewhere in Australasia. Two more severe ? hocks of earthquake occurred at Benchport nnd Kingston. The people nre greatly scared «t their continu ancn, mid are cuuiping in lents. Details show the Dnnkow struck a reef off Kangaroo Island on Friday. The crew, twenty six in number, landed at Kiu^scot on tlie island after suffering considerable privations. Sydney, June 2. Thrre has been much dissatisfaction over the tnxution ComnrsMoners claiming arrears c f incomo Tux. The Government ob'»ined the opinion of the AttorneyGeneral on the matter, and he holds tintthe Commissioners have no right to col> lect. the arrears. Obituary — The Rev. George Grimuj, ex moderator of the Presbyteriau Assembly and a well known writer. The steamers Shaftesbury and Paoific collided in Newcastle barbour. Both were severely damaged, to the extent of about ±1000 each. They returned for repairs. Over twenty more bookmakers have been fined for cash betting at suburban racecourses, The trial of tbo Swedish seaman Johnson, of tbe ship West-gate, who attacked a shipmate and fellow-country man named Larsen with a razor in this port a few weeks ago during a drunken quarrel as to who was the better sea man, and inflicted such iu juries upon his throat as caused his death, has con eluded. Tho jury found Johnson to be guilty of manslaughter. Melbourne, Jane 2 Wilson, a restaurant keeper, hat been sentenced to sight months' imprisonment for shooting and dangerously wounding his wife in March last. Thursday Island, This Day. The ss. Duke of Devonshire, after being temporarily repaired, left Thursday Island for Brisbane, but the plate gave way shortly after starting, and she had to return. She has now twelve feet of water in ber bold. Perth, June 1. Later details show that the discovery of native silver was made in the Great Boulder Preseverance mine at Ealgoorlie. Specimens are to be forwarded for examination by eminent mineralogists in Loncoii and Berlin.