AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 79, 9 March 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

COMPENSATION FOR INJURIEB : IN THE HAWTHORN ACCIDENT.

HORRIBLE WIFE MURDER.

-.■i., SPURIOUS BRA3SDY.

; ANOTHER BANK ROBBERY.

I ' f?er _e,s. Arawata at Auckland. ] Melbourne, Fpb. 28* The Hawthorn Collision Arbitration Board has awarded Richard Ayfhe, stonemason, £133, and his wife £146, compensation for injuries received m the accident. • A horrible murder has been committed at Tallin ?aroch, near Gisborne, fby a well-known resident, Thomas (JfDonnell, who got up at six o'clock m the morning, and went into the bedroom where his wife was. sleeping, and there, with an axe, nearly severed her head from the body. He then woke up a son, ased about 12, and told the boy that the mother was dead. Death was instantaneous. O'Donnell, who wa* highly respected, and m good circumstances, is supposed to be insane, as lor several days past he has complained about; his head. The rrairderer has been arrested. Joskeand Co.^ the well-known wine i and spirit merchants, were charged at i the Police Court to-day with selling I inferior brandy ia casks bearing Martell's brand. Counsel for the defence pleaded jgui'ty, and 6tated the offence was inadvertently committed. After consiiHition, it was announced that the majority of the Bench had arrived at a decision to impose a fine of £21, with £57 10s costs. i In the Supreme Court to-day, J. C. Kelly, a land-owner, residing m Fitzroy, sued the Boaid of Land and "Forks for £5000 damages for injures sustained by him- m the Hawthorn collision. Plaintiff, who ib 62 years of age, sustained a severe shock which, it was stated, induced permanent paralysis. The Jury returned a three-fourths verdict for £2750. O. H. Williams sned the same defendants for £1000 damages for '^j/'ries. received on tbe Fame occasion. ThVjufy Wanted him £250. Several hundred pounds are missing from cash entrusted to one of the paying | tellers of the Colonial Bank, who has been suspended. The police are investigating the matter. Adelaide Feb. 28. t At the criminal sittings, Robert Millar pleaded- guilty 'to falsifying the books of the National Bank of Australasia, and waß sentenced to two years and six months' impnaonmffn^. -