AUSTRALIAN CABLE.
Sydney, Sept. 2,
The sculling carnival on the Parramatta begins on the "12th inst. Stansbury is placed on scratch, Sullivan has osec, Keefe (the present amateur champion of New Zealand) 40sec, and eighteen others have enterad, including Kemp, Dutch, Neilson, Messenger, and Lambert. Sept. 4.
The five-mile amateur bicycle championship of New South Wales yesterday was won hy Ilodgkinson in lomin 44sec,
It is understood that Keefe, the New Zealand champion, withdraws from the sculling carnival on the Parramatta.
Two thousand lives Avere lost by the eruption at Sanguier Island.
Melbourne, Sept. 1
An extraordinary document has been unearthed, purporting to be the confession of a man who apparently destroyed himself. In the confession it is declared that Mrs O'Brien, who was recently convicted and sentenced to death on a charge of poisoning a farmer named Corn well at "\Varracknabeal, is innocent of crime, and that Cornwell committed suicide. The writer of the letter says that he
assisted in the plot to fix the death on Mrs O'Brien. Brisbane, Sept. 1. A young man named Frank Harrocks, son of n well known member of the Civil Service, who was arrested in April on suspicion of having caused the death of a new arrival named Weissmuller, found dead near the city with his brains beaten out by a tomahawk, has been found guilty and sentenced to death. IT.M.S. Rapid has arrived from New Guinea and the Solomon Islands where she destroyed several villages as a punishment for recent outrages. The police have abandoned the charge against M. Perrett, suspected of being a Russian spy, without assigning any reason. Perth, Sept. 4. El-luck still hangs to the ship Laira, which left Dunedin for Freemantle on the 19th April, and on the same month experienced a severe gale, in which she sustained damage necessitating her putting into Hobart for repairs. After leaving Hobart she met with fair weather and arrived, but yesterday her commander, Captain Hugles, was killed by a load of timber crushing him.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2395, 6 September 1892, Page 1
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334AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Temuka Leader, Issue 2395, 6 September 1892, Page 1
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