AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2522, 21 April 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Telegraph.!

(Per s.s. Tararna at Bussell.)

NEW SOUTH WALES,

Sydney April 14. In the Walker whiskey rowing match the first prize will be £2OO.

The New South Wales Government are considering the propriety of opening the National Art Gallery on Sundays. At the assizes, Priston and wife were charged with causing the death of an orphan named Emma Cross, aged 14, who bad been living with them. The husband was sentenced to three .years’, and the wife to eighteen months’ hard labor.

During the past five years, 350 Chinamen arrived at Greyton from Sydney, cn route to the new tin mines.

F. W. Dawson, a reader employed at the “ Herald ” office, while crossing the line in the railway-yard at Eedfern station, was run over by a shunting engine, and killed almost instantaneously. Warden Thompson at Mount Poole telegraphs : “ Last week five men nearly perished, and their seven horses perished on the New Bourke track. They were there three days and nights without water. One man cut his arm, and drank his own blood ; another threw away his clothes, and they were all nearly mad when they got to the water at Milbring. There is no water on the Bourke track for 120 miles, and men will perish if they come that way. At the Dubbo Circuit Court in the case of Catherine Warren, alias Wilkie, arraigned on a charge of murdering J. 0. Norton, late police magistrate at Dubbo, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, and the prisoner was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, half the term to be with hard labour.

The. Orange Slaughtering Company has contracted with the agents of the Orient line for the whole space fitted with frozen chambers in their fleet. The first cargo of 300 tons of frozen meat will be despatched from Orange at the end of May, and will consist of a consignment sent by squatters on their own account.