AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 121, 17 April 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

The Two-Headed Girl. Atrocious Outrage. Suicide of a GirlA Rew •' Rain-Bringer." [Specially Compiled for the Evening^ Post.] [Pci 1 s.s. Hauroto.] Sydney, April 9. The " two headed girl " was brought before the Police Magistrate at Bat* hurst yesterday and charged with beIm"'' an indecent exhibit." The proprietor of the show m which she was. exhibited was sentenced to three days' imprisonment. The exhibit was not forfeited. The Police Magistrate ex- ' pressed; hi* 'surprise that the Sydney police did not suppress the exhibition. I At the Tamworth Assiies, John; i Green (a young jockey), and Thomas Waning (an elderly man), who was' accessory to the crime, were found guilty of having committed a rape upon,; a girl 16 yesirs of age. They were sentenced to deaih. Mr Justice^ Faucett observed that a sadder "and more wretched case had never beenbrought under his notice. He held out no hope of mercy. \ A painful sensation was created last* evening a' Lithgbw, when it was dis-i covered 'hat a ! gifli named Bridget! :Kennedy, 15 years of age, had coinjmit ed suicide by-' hanging hei'seelf. ;Sho resided with her parents near the 1 ' Hermitage. The gir£ it Is" alleged, had; a dispute with her, mother,' and was! shortly afterwards missed. On search! ; being made she was fo r und hanging by) the neck m the fowMiouifc -and %uite ! ;dead. -•' . .:f -:'^, ; Melbourne. Aprils. A design, has been submitted to s the Minister for watey supply, ofa. contrivance for bringing down rain; It is the fprm of a. balloon, with a charge oi dynamite underneath it; ; The balloon, is to be sent into thecjouds, andthe dynamite is to be fired By a wire connecting it with the earth. The inventor, Mr E. B. Haines, of Richmond, .iiitpnds to 3bry.it m the dry districts of l^ew South W&les. . i Sir H. B. Loch (the new GovWhor of Victoria) and bis wife are well r kn6wn and, distinguished figures m. London society. Those who, have met them speak of their position and their reputation m the [highest terms. Lady Lock was one of the beauties of her day! It appeals that the new Governor has been to this colony before, as far back as £1850, m company with Mr Steawart "Worth-y, now Lord Whamcliffe. He came from' India for the benefit of his health ; he completely recovered, and was enabled before leaving Melbourne to enter fuljy into social enjoyment.. He is. connected by marriage with the Marquis of Normanby, the present Governor of the coioriy. .