AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 755, 1 March 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Mess AbENbV]

AbCKfeANh, Feifftiary 2t. The Herb arrived frottl Sydney at, midnight. She hririga §OO tons of cargb, alid A large niiimiistof passengers; and ddfes to the 22nd iti.4. BrisUaNe, Febi-thUy 21. A fresh case of sickness occurred amongst the passetigßrs fif illh Somerset,(iiow in Quarantine, is rejlbitod. Thb weathef is exceedingly Hbt and close; Mnd a death by Slitislrdke is reported as ha.’ittg dceurrbd at the German station yeaterddy: . SthitE¥ Febnfafy 22; At the Central dHniinal Cdtfrt, JameM Gunn was foiirid gliilt¥ Of the tilnrder of his mother, and tbhißndhd for sbntbnce; MEtikdiißNh; Fbhrtlary 22. Ail order haS beeli madh for thh compiilsbijr sequestriltiort bf Uib estate of the Rev. Fatriclt Mddie, a Romaii Catholic Clergyman. [from Late hXtiffANbEs.] Sydney, February 19. Six hundred and twenty men are' ridw eiilptoyed on the -exhibition biiilding. The apace applied for by Great Britain and the continent of Europe is larger than the entire area. Brisbane, tWllMry 13; The captain and crew of the Day Dawn, from New Caledonia to Newcastle, are prostrated from exhaustion and fever. The . vesse) has been l4' ddyS but, and during tlld Whole of that tirrle slid experienced heavy weather. For several days she was badly waterlogged,' and it was feared she would founder. Slid ha£ Htfeil Showed to come up thd river on aridollrit df llbr dangerous condition. The Cirimniisidrief of Fdiice has re-i oeived ii ti-lbgram fttritf (jiidiftowii -that a man darned Fdtdr Dodldn, a lalKirer was found mnrctel’ed du the night of the' 3th. Stiortg sdSpidirirt is dttiched to d WbiHan nariie’d Arnold Mil a mad named MalOney, and ,bcitll tlilVe been arrested,,, p ’ ' Native trooperS. fbtiirrtbd from pati'dlliiig thff north-sidfe Endeavour River have recovered All the pr* iperty lost by 'Hartley tthd SyfeCS In the 1 «te Mtiidlt bjr Ijlacfe; . Instructions have, been sent t** the Ageiit-Geim»'i»l ; tp Btop. all emigration from the Continent thin to re luce that fWiii Miiglan tl by dild-tbird; ■ Reports hay© Refill refieifed fronf Blackball that fotfr ffififi hdve beert rtlmdered by the RlacfeS djt the IJourkd River Camp, belonging id Mf Beckett. The cattle and otbbt; ptOpefty were' eartifed Off; . Ab’EhAtiJß, FeTtHiary 15. Delavaiix and wife have been com mittbd fot' tiial for setting fire to their shop in Hindly-street: Tnfi insurance' had, only been a few days effected. Intelligence has bfieti received at Port Augustus tMfc thb hdat of the Runnymede, which left FtfrtPirie for the lightship abottt a month ago am? was lost; lias hefiu diS&JVered at Port Pattetsotlj a feW miles down the gulf containing the deMtl bodies of two men.. There is no trace of the remainder of the crew., Early, oil the morning, of the 17th Edward • Aplin. Ifttb df tbd firm of Aplin and Talk, ardhitddts, Fitzroy street, Melbourne, was fount? iti the closdt dn bojfrd the Vhnola, at Beachpoit, dead with his throat cut. The verdict at the inquest was “ suicide' on board the Peilola while laboring : mldei 1 tempory insanity t* : ! Perth. Traces Of, Leidhardt’s pai-ty are suppdsed td be found in the Far East.