AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2140, 20 December 1890, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney, Dec. 8. A sad case of drowning is reported from Barooga, near to Cumneal. A youth,Chaß. James Attwood Eeynolds, while attempting to cross a creek to reach the Cobram punt, was washed off his horse and drowned. He was a nephew o£ Sir Thomas Attwood, Birmingham, who died lately and bequeathed a millon of money to the young man, one of the conditions of the will being that he wa* not to inherit the fortune till he reached the age of twenty years. The accident happened last Monday, but the body was not recovered till Saturday, Melboubbte, Dec 9. A shocking fatality happened about eighteen mileß from Swan Hill early on Wednesday morning, len days ago a gentleman named Francis Burchet, with his valet, came up here to live on a selection in the mallee. He spent several days in the town, where he drank very heavily, and when he proceeded on his journey last Sunday he was on the verge of delirium tremens. Hancock, his man, thought that a few days in the mallee would cure him, but on Tuesday last he ran_ away trom the camp and lost himself in the mallee scrub. Hancock spent several days in searching for him but did not communicate with the police until Friday night, Two mounted constables were then despatched at once, and they followed the track up to about six miles, when they found the body of the deceased in a frightful condition. It was evident that he had died early on the morning after he disappeared in terrible agony. _ Mr Burchet was a young man of considerable means, and his father holds a very good position under Goverment at Home. Dec 18. The first fatal accident in the colony resulting from electric lighting is reported from the New Australian Company's works at Eichmond, and the circumstances point to recklessness on the part of the victim. The engineer in charge was engaged in switching a current from one dynamo to another in order to stop land oil one machine. Pattison, the electrician, was standing in front of the switch board of the second machine, and the engineer, after changing switches, saw Pattison grasping the switches with both hands, and unable to let go. The current was immediately stopped, when Pattison fell down and expired in five minutes. Deceased received a full current at a power of 500 volts, and his fingers were almost charred off. The body, which was blackened and shrivelled, presented a terrible sight. •

Fatal Trolly Accidbnt.—Peter Felix Jones, a young man whose leg and arm were amputated Bt the Invercargill Hospital owing to injury through a trolly accident, died on Thursday. Holloway'B Pills.—Weakening weather. —The sultry summer days strain the nerves of the feeble and decrepit, and disease may eventuate unless some restorative, such as these purifying Fills, be found to correct the disordering teudenoy. Holloway'B medicine gives potenoy to the nervous syatemj whioh is the source of all vital movements, and presides over every aotion whioh maintains the growth and well-being of the body No one can over estimate the necessity of keeping the nervea well strung, or the ease with which these PilU aooompluh that end. They tare the most unfailing antidotes to indigestion, irregular circulation, palpitation, sick headache, and cosbivenesa, and have therefore attained the largest sale and higheitreputatiqn.

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