CABLE NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1760, 17 August 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

HEARTLESS MURDER OF AN INFANT DROWNED FOR CRYING FOE ITS • ;t ,MOTHER Melbourne, August 14. The mother of the child found in a lagoon when arrested denied causing its death/ Mrs Young is a widow. Since she lost her husband she has lived a loose life. Three times she abandoned the child. On one occasion a woman was willing to be made its adoptive' mother, and appealed to the Court, brit failing to get any remedy, left it with the magistrate and cleared out. The child was then. handed to the police. _ Mrs Williams has confessed that she took tho child to the lagoon and tied a stone to its waist while the infant was laughing at the water, • and then shoved it in. The reason given is that the people where she lived were, always grumbling about the poor little mortal crying for its mother. AN IMPORTANT CASE ’ Sydney, August 14. An important insurance case was, before) the Supreme Court. An insurer, sued the New Oriental Banking Corporation for a return of his life policy for £IOOO effected for the benefit of his wife and children. He claimed £3OO damages for the detention of the policy; which was matured in 1893, and had been deposited with the Bank in 1889'as plaintiff alleged: for safe The defendants rofusoil to sHirender Jhe policy on, , |he ground that plaintiff was largely interested in the Bank; and had been placed with them ris security. Justice Hodges, in giving 1 judgment for plaintiff, \said that under the Married Woman’s Property Act the policy .effected for the. benefit of the wife and children created trust, and formed no part of the estate or debts.'

: .THE eedfern tragedy / . . . Sydney, August 14. Brown, who murdered his three .children at Rodfern, has been found not guilty on the grounds of insanity, and ordered to be imprisoned at the Governor’s pleasure. ENGLAND AND CHITRAL London, August 13. The Times says that British troops are temporarily holding the crest 'of Malakind Pass and Swat river in order to secure the complete control of the country between Chitral and India. The (possession of the Lowari Pass will enable England to . forestall any intruders. The evacuation of Jandol Valley is virtually completed. MURDER AND SUICIDE Melbourne, August 15. A shocking tragedy has occurred at Tunor, near Maryborough. A miner named Bowring took a young woman named Randall, to whom he was engaged to be married in October, for a drive. He alighted at arotired place, shot her through the head with a revolver, and then blew his own brains out, Botlvare dead. Bowring had been speculating and betting heavily lately, and had lost all his savings.