AUSTEALIAN NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 246, 14 March 1888, Page 10

AUSTEALIAN NEWS.

Ax extraordinary assault took place re" cently near Footscray Station, Melbourne. Annio Dowling, who was recently befoie the local court charged with shooting Louisa Smith, the housokeeper of a man named Kichard Wallace, thiow a handful of pepper in the faco of Smith. Smith is in dangor of losing her bight. A woman named Macpher&on, 70 years of ago, lias been arrested at Koron» Vale, Victoria, and remanded to Sandhurst on a chargo of lunacy. She endeavoured to wreck a train by placing log* across the rails. The-so weio foituiuitcly aiseoveiod in time. An inquest was hold at Melbourne on February 28th on tho body of a lad aged 13, who died under the influence of chloroform administered by Dr. Valentino Brown in oulcr to draw a tooth. The medical evidence bhowed that deceased's heait was weakened by typhoid tover, and a verdict was gi\ en according to themedical evidence, and a rider added that the chloioform was piopcrly administered. At a well attended meeting of wot kino; me i held at Adelaide on March Ist, it was decided to form a society to be called tho Eight Hours Protection Association, with tho object of banding together men of any trade or calling who sympathise with the eight hours movement. It \\a? urged that the code of rules of hovcral existing socioties prohibited men from joining a society formed to strengthen the eight hours movement, which it, was stated, was not so powerful at it was a few years buck.