AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (Per s.s. Wairarapa )

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 182, 11 December 1886, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (Per s.s. Wairarapa )

Melbourne, December 2. A iISfUTE in the clothing trade is threatened by the presaers demanding that weekly wages be abolished in favour of piece work. If the employ resist the demand it will stop their factories, and throw between 1,000 and 2,000 bands out of work. Meacra rWth, Schiees and Co. will probably be first attacked. The preepers have already made their demand, which the firm are likely to resiafc. Nothing definite will be known till Mcnrlay. In sentencing Mra Taylor to two years' imprisonment iv connection with the death of the girl Warburton, Judge Holroyd said the jury's recommendation to morcy meant that she was not guilty of an attempt to procure abortion. But, as a mid v\ ife of long experience, who had previously been in trouble, she should have been more cautious. Sho was undoubtedly guilty of gross carelessnose.

Sydney, December 2. News was brought into Bourke that, on the 23rd inbtant, a man namad Edward Lilley was shot dead in the Old Tinapogee Hotel, Parco River, by John Leek, licensee of the house. Deceased, it is raid, was on the spree in Tinapagee, and thioatened to stab people, and demanded diinks. He was refused, and was put forcibly outside the hotel. He then cut a lot of cane grass, made it up into bundles, and heaped thum against the aide of the hou?e, and then fired the heap= Thereupon Leek came outside bin hotel, and fired at Lilley, who fell wounded. He died about an hour afterwards. Leek then senl for the Wanaaring police, Mid on their arrival gave himselt up to them. Mr Maurice Feehan, J.P., of Tinapagee, held a magisterial inquiiy on the apo., and gave orders for the burial of the body. L,eck was taken by the police to Wauaaring, where he was brought up before Meesrs Hamsen and Hebdcn, Js P.

The Sydney Poisoning Case. The inquest concerning the death at the Grand Hotel, Wynyard Square, of a merchant named Frederick Berudt, concluded with the following verdict :—" We find that Frederick Berndt, at the Grand Hotel, on the '24th day of November, ISS6, died from the effects ot a poison known as ' Kough on Rats ;' but as to his motive for taking it, there is no evidence to show." The jury added —" We consider Mr Uhde, the licensee of the hotel, guilty of gross neglect in not sending for a medical man immediately after he found out the fact that the poison had been taken."

The Prisoners Under Sentence of Death. From a document in the possession of the Government we have obtained the following particulars with reference to the nine prisoners now in Oarlinghurst gaol under sentence of death for the Mount Rennie outrage:—All but one of the condemned are nativea of New South Wales, and the one who is not is a native of Victoria. Five of the nine are Roman Catholice, three are Presbyterians, and the religion of one i8 that of the Church of England. Only one of the nine is over 20 years of age. Four of them are 19, one IS, and three 17.