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Temuka Leader, Issue 2467, 21 February 1893, Page 3

Larceny. —At Tiraaru yesterday two sailors named McKenzie and Schneider, belonging to the Araby Maid, were fined lOs each for stealing five drinking horns and an old pair of boots from the Club Hotel. The captain said the men bad not been ashore for seven months, and they were well behaved on board.

The Fkanklin Expedition.— The Rev. Mr Young, for a quarter of a century a missionary in the Arctic regions, states that a dying Indian, who accompanied one of the Franklin relief expeditions, has confessed to him that the commander sent him and a companion across an island to the Arctic Sea to look for any remains of a vesssel. They espied masts sticking out of the ice in the far distance, but the provisions of the party were so nearly exhausted that the Indians were afraid to tell the commander of their discovery lest' the delay in reaching the vessel should result in starvation. The party accordingly reported they saw nothing. Mr Young says he is confident that the ship seen by the Indians was one of Sir John Franklin’s. Coon Sheep-Stealers. The most audacious case of sheep-stealing known for many years in New South Wales has just occurred in the GiJgandra district. A thousand sheep belonging to the executors of the late Mr D. M. Keogh, of the Warrana station, and other owners were taken away and freshly tar-branded. A travelling permit was applied for, and granted in regular form. The sheep were taken along the travelling-stock route in broad daylight, those in charge of them giving the requisite notice a each holding as they came to it. They arrived at Medway, 10 miles from Dubbo, where trucks were ordered. It appears that here the thieves must have got some idea that the authorities were on the lookout, for the sheep were left in the yard, and those in charge of them disappeared. A man named Walter Newston has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the case. He has made a clean breast of the affair, and the police are now looking for his confederates.

A Devoted Sister, — A touching domestic story was revealed at an inquest in Melbourne the other day concerning the death of Miss Catherine Irwin. Her brother John had developed an incurable disease, and ultimately was forced to relinquish his employment. His sister faced the work of maintaining house and nursing her brother bravely, but the task was a hard and hopeless one. After months of sickness at home the brother was removed to the Melbourne Hospital. There he remained for three months, and as his end was fast approaching his sister took him home that she might nurse him herself in his last few weeks of life. On Saturday morning, as the crisis was near at hand, the sister, who had been up all the previous night, and was physically and mentally exhausted, yielded to sleep. She was heard to groan about 10 o’clock in the morning, and as those in the house were unable to wake her Dr O’Donnell was hastily summoned. When he arrived he found she was dead. Twelve hours later the brother died. His end was near, but it was unquestionably hastened by the news of the death of his sister. Miss Irwin’s death was from apoplexy.