AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 95, 30 March 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

LARGAN IN DISTRESS.

THE MURDER OF A CHINESE DOCTOR. STRANGE DISCOVERY OF FBMALE REMAINS. ELECTRIC LIGHTING IN MELBOURNE. IRISH EXCITEMENT IN VICTORIA. i per s.s. hauroto.] Sydney. A movement has been initiated by Mr Edward Trickett to provide funds for the return of John Largan to England. During his visit to the colony he has been singularly unfortunate m the different events m which he has contested,having never scored a win, m addition to which he has had three boats destroyed. He is anxious to return to England at once, and is really m want of assistance. It is his intention, however, to return with bis wife and family and settle m Australia. Tn regard to th? murder of a Chinese doctor at Arraidale, it has transpired that on Saturday morning a Chinaman asked a blacksmith at Ural la to read a certain document which proved to be a d«p«sit receipt from the Com mercial Bank, Arrridale, to Jemmy Young, the murdered Chinaman, for £180. In consequence of this information, two Chinamen, who went to Ural la on Saturday morning by train, have been arrested and brought to Armidale. ; Enthusiastic anti-Redmond meetings had been held at Forbes, Windsor, and other place. Melbourne. f Some boys while gathering rags at the Corporation heap m Colliugwood made a strange discovery. After ' raking about among the i-efuse of the place for some time, they found a quantity of human remains buried just below the surface. The remains consisted of a female skull and thigh bones, with the ribs and some other smaller bones. The skull bad been sawn m two. Ihe boys took the remains to the Collingwood watchhouse, where the police after inspecting them, concluded that they had been made the subject of a post mortem examination. Inquiries will be made as to how the remains got there. Many people suppose them to be th» remains of the woman Farrell, who was murdered by her husband some years ago m Colling wood, and whose body was never found. Last week the body of a female child was found ou the "Victoria Parade, East Melbourne. A post mortem examination showed that the child had been born alive, but had been bruised and beaten almost to a jelly. Its inside had been smashed, and the neck twisted so as to cau<e death. It is evident that a brutal murder has been committed. ' Sir Julius Vogel's tender for the lighting of Elizabeth-street for six months by electricity has been accepted by the City Council. There is much excitement here over the receipt or the cable messages relating to Ireland. Strong party feelings were exhibited at the procession of Irishmen on £t; Patrick's Day, and several times free fights appeared imminent. The Rev. Prior Butler, m an address delivered on Saturday night on the destiny of Ireland, expressed his belief m strong terms that m spite of the tyranny and the persecution to which Ireland had bsen subjected for the fast 700 years, she was on the ere of be- '

coming a separate nation. A crisis' was at hand, and Ireland must win m the long ran . Adelaide:. A gH, five years old, daughter of Mr Richardson, baker, at Saddleworth, has been burned to death while playing with matches. Steps are being- taken to establish a Mayor's Court m Adelaide to decide on cases of breach of the by-laws, thus avoiding the alternative of hearing them through the Police Coart. Brisbane. Hamett's Union Flour Mills at Black Gully, near Toowoomba, were totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday. The stock was insured for £1000 m tha office of the New Zealand Company, ■and the building for £1000 m the offices of the Commercial Union and South British companies. The cause of the fire is unknown.