AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 33, 29 January 1908, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FOIL TKACEIA SIH'ECIED.

Melbourne, January :;s. Last week a decomposed bouv was found iu a disused shall iu the liiltarji district. It was supposed that an acd dent had happened, uut the police have now reason w believe that an atrocious murder and robbery have been committed. A woman named Ur.iham, living apart from her kubsand, left Geeloug early in December to spend a holiday n Vyandra. She lad considerable jenclkrjr. The clothing on the body ha s been Identified as hers, but there is no trace of the jewellery.

(JOBAK AIAGAZLNE EXPLOSION. Sydney, January 28. Whe* the powder magazine at the Cobar mine exploded, the names leapt fifty or sixty leet in the air. Tne ground shook as in an earthquake. Not * itone of the magazine was left standing. The debris was scattered round for a radius of half a mile. A falling ■tone knocked the machine from under a cyclist. The man had his head cut by the missile. No other accidents are reported. The supposed cause of the lire w« spontaneous combustion.

KISINU IX NEW GUINEA,

Sydney, January 2S. Advice from German S\:w Guinea reports a rising of natives at roudanihafen. Troops have been sent to tinlocality. It is believed the European, are safe. The natives have taken to we hills.