AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1854, 16 February 1889, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne, February 7. A man named Hodgkin is reported to have died from a wasp sting at Mittamitt, (Victoria). The doctor found him suffering from soreness of the throat and chest. It appears that some person in addition to giving him strychnine injections, put a phial of liquid ammonia at frequent intervals to the insensible man’s nostrils with a view to reviving him. It is believed that the excessive inhalation of that 'Tvapour severely irrigated the bronchial tubes. The doctor gave a certificate that death ensued from a wasp sting, but having also stated that death had probahlylbeen accelt irated by excessive applications of am monia, the local police communicated all the facts to the District Coroner, Six members of a family named Townsend, of Melbourne, have been poisoned through eating unwholesome brawn, and the youngest, aged two years, has since died. It is believed that ?the brawn became affected by keeping it in a close safe. Some of it was afterwards given to a dog and the animal immediately commenced to vomit. Brisbane, Feb. 7, A fatal stabbing affray occurred at Brisbane last week. Two seamen quarrelled outside a boarding house, and one of them, a Scotchman, named John M’Ka y, stabbed to the heart a Swede name id Andrew Milander. Ho weapon was found on M’Kay, but the wound had i apparently been made by a small penl mife. M’Kay was slightly under. the influence of liquor, but Milander wi is sober. Perth, Feb. 7. A special sitting of the Supreme Ceurt is befog held to try the charges j-of murder against three white men and three blacks. The case against them is that with others they went out after some- natives who had

speared a packman’s horse near Wyndham and shot five of them dead. One of the prisoners was a police constable at the time of the murders, and it is alleged that he did not report the occurrence when he returned.