Murder of Drovers.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7731, 6 February 1905, Page 2

Murder of Drovers.

(Hecoivtxi Feb. 6, 1.8 a.m.) roitT UAnwiN, a. Two droverd, named Frost Ujid Awards respectively, also • blaclc boy in their employment, hnvo been found shot dead «t their camp near the Victoria Iliven 'JTwy. are suppose*! to have been murdered by another black \*>y of tWrt who is missing. A startling expert enf* befell tIM jM new Tyser steamer Star of ScotlMfapH at Melbourne lately, when I struck by lightning, ond a pole about eight' feet high, 'carried jon top of licr foremast, tipteff' POUH |rfotely scattered. She was on hi* I way fr«m Melbourne to Sydney, •just off tho Quarantine Station at Ports™ \vhen tho incident occuiri-d. Wot W. T, Lily was in "haig.«, ar.d i ,Captain Hart and his cMef oflkcr i were also on the bridge nt the tim«. Thp flash which struck the foremast ] was aOiompaiiied liy a U'ivHl? thun- ] doll'lap, wMch oeemed u thuke the 'vcFsel, and caused 'fe pil.it. captain and the chief officer to involuntarily crouch down oil (tic torhtge. Beyond* the shattering of the pole of the masthead no damage ivsulted. l>orjtion of the destroyed pm<<? fell on jUie (hfk, tflit o I though in mtuc caaea | thfl peces were splintered Into wry M I small fragments, no trtices of burn* A ing wetie observable on them. polo, which was probably wud fojfll dlspalying signals, wo« of pitch pine, "J nnd was affl*«d to the foromaW, ' j winch was constructed o( steel. Itu ,'i n singular coincidence Utejt *u «n ■ almost ptvdiacly rimilar adventuM jjfl was passed through by the Star of England, also of the Tvmv ifl line, when she was «o 4 varan Melbourne