AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1708, 23 January 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CASES OF SMALL-POX. Perth, January 19. The steamer Goloncurry has arrived at Fremantle from Singapore with throe cases of small-pox on board. CLAIM FOR £IO,OOO _ _ _ MelbournjlJ anuary 19. Mr Greener, gun in England, has issued f/M against a local firm of gunmakers, claiming £IO,OOO damages for alleged illegal use of their name. ° THE FALSE CONFESSION OF MURDER Sydney, January 19. . Two girls, Conolly and Moran, have confessed they concocted their stories about wholesale child murders, in order to obtain their release from the Parramatta Industrial School, of which they were inmates. THE NEW GJVERNOR OF VICTORIA Melbourne, January 19. Lord Brassey, the new Governor, is expected, to arrive in the colony in September. . r AUSTRALIA. Sydney, January 20. The Hauroto has on board 31 ‘ New Australians/ who proceed by the steamer Eimutaka from Wellington en route for the settlement in South America. * CONFERENCE OF PREMIERS. Hobart, January 20. The Hon R. J. Seddon has cabled, regretting his inability* to attend the Conference of Premiers, and states that the Postmaster-General will probably be present. A DISTRESSING TRAGEDY. ' Sydney, January 20. A tragedy is reported from Adamstown near Newcastle. ,A girl named J Eleanor Turner, aged ‘l2, the daughter of Mrs Gray, while washing dishes broke a cup. Mrs Gray upbraided the girl for carelessness, where upon the latter gave a saucy reply. Mrs Gray, in a fit of anger/ seized a large table knife which she hurled at the girl. The knife struck the girl in thb region of the heart, / killing her. Mrs Gray has been arrested. THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

Sydnisy,. January 20. In their first inningsuthe Englishmen scored 178—McLaren, 56; Stoddarfc, 55 In their second essay* Broken Hill knocked up 102, leaving the visitors victorious by an innings and 8 runs. * Iredale denies that he has received an offer to proceed to England.

, STAKYATiON-AT FIJI.— • Sydney, January 2L /_ In connection with the recent hurnf cane at Fiji, a private letter states that, the most dreadful thing of all is yet to com®, in the shape of starvation. How the unfortunate people, who lost thing by tho hurricane, are to keep body and soul tog-ether is a mystery. Hundreds are now eating food unfit for any human being, so that an epidemic of dysentery may be expected to make its appearance. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH EUROPE INTERRUPTED. LINES WASHED AWAY. Adelaide, January 2. The Port Darwin telegraph line has been interrupted by heavy floods at Warsina, nbrth of where the river is now running a mile wide. A lineman, after being in the water five hours, succeeded in getting a wire across, but as he was about to haul it clear of the water it caught in a snag and operations had to cease owing to darkness setting in. Efforts were to be made to get the wire hoisted clear of the water early to-day, and it is exp icted that communication will berestored this evening.