AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 March 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.)

[per press association.]

A horrible Tragedy.

Sydney, March 18.

A young man named Ehvyn Richardson, a well-known squatter near Forbes, shot his father and mother as they lay in bed.

Ho next attempted to shoot his sister, and finally shot himself dead. The weapon used was a shot gun. The father is dead and the mother lies desperately wounded. The details arc meagre. Acquitted. Perth, This Day. The girl Ottey was acquitted on the charge of killing her father. Small Pox. Melbourne, March 19. Foulsham and trainers in the house where the small pox patient was found hare been quarantined with an acre of ground adjoining in order to get oyer the difficulty of training horses.

i South African Wheat Export. The quantity of wheat exported from Australia to South Africa this season is estimated at '150,000 bags. Opening of Federal Parliament Received this day at 9 82 a.m. Adelaide, This Day. Five hundred troops will be sent to the opening of the Federal Parliament. Melbourne, March 19. Squabbling over tho invitations for tho Federal Parliament has already commenced. Tho Government proposed to limit the Municipal invitations to a thousand, but Municipalities demand that every Mayor, Councillor, and Town Clerk shall ho invited. They arc using every pressuro to gain tho end. The Sydney Tragedy. Received this day, at 9 10 a.m. ;- ydney, March 19. Richards, aged 2:5, blew the top of his father's head off. His mother jumped out of bed and ran away, but was shot in the back. Tho sistor escaped through the gun missing to lire. Money matters and love affairs are tho supposed cause so far. The Coal Difficulty. There is delay in shipping through the lock out. Tho crews of many of the large steamers arc engaged in coaling. There is a likelihood of other unions becoming involved.