AUSTRALIAN SENSATIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1932, 20 August 1889, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN SENSATIONS.

Melbourne, August 12 * A large.fire took place on the morning of theUitb* Robbs ,; buildings, Collins Street* in?which are the aoditbranch and engineer’s office of : the Victorian railways, were gutted ' and valuable*plans were destroyed, i A fireman ;named Pox sustained a compound* fracture of one leg. A Verdict was given in favor of Mrs Browne for £4927 damages against the National Bank on account of the loss of debentures deposited in the bank and stolen by Onions, the security clerk, A warrant has been issued for the arrest of James Alexander Matheson, accountant of tbe ! Australasian Discount Company. IJis supposed defalcations are about £400., j , •> Dr Samuel Brierly, a well-known city practitioner, was charged at the* City Court yesterday with assaulting and robbing Davidson; a sharebroker, and formerly lessee of the Theatre Royal Ootel,

The bodies of two men, identified as a carpenter named Oalkett and a contractor named Freeman, have been found floating in the Yarra,

A man named George Soarr attempted to commit suicide on Saturday evening by drowning himself in the Yarra, bat was rescued by two men who jumped in after him,

Two men, Wilks and Morgan, quarrelled in the street, when the former struck Morgan, inflicting serious injuries, necessitating bis removal to the hospital, Wilks has bsen arrested.

At Clark’s Gill, Bungarie, Eliza Heaney, aged 14, was accidentally shot by her brother, aged 17, The lad was shooting sparrows, when the girl suddenly coming round the corner received the shot in the head. No hopes are entertained of her recovery, Sydney, August 11.

Alfred Chitcber, residing at Bellambi, near Woolongong, attempted to murder bis wife on Saturday by stabbing her in the abdomen with a large clasp knife. He then tried to commit- suicide by stabbing himself with a butcher’s knife. Both were removed to the hospital, where their wounds were found very serious, so much so in the case of the woman that her depositions were taken last night. Chitcber had previously been convicted of ill-using bis wife. They lived apart for some time, bat were latterly reunited. The trial of the prisoners George Johnson and George Bignan, accused of shooting Constable Slater, was concluded yesterday, the jury returning a verdict of not guilty in each case. The bodies of Ban Mason, and the elder Peate were discovered in the Glebe Pit on Sunday. Adelaide, August 13.

A shocking occurrence took place at; Brompton Park, neat Adelaide, this morning. A single woman named Catherine O’Brien was found lying in an outhouse with a still-born female child beside her, and was afterwards safely delivered of a living male child. The neighbors had cruelly refused to attend the suffering woman. Thursday Island, Aug. 11 . The Government steamer Albatross has returned from Batavia river with a boat belonging to John Williams, who was murdered by his crow, Iho boat was 13 miloa from the river, high on the send. The provisions r.nd dingy had bean (alcec, It is unknown, when or how, Williams wes murdered, but It is supposed that ho was thro?/n overboard S9OB «f|w leaving ||ere^