AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3104, 29 January 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Melboubne, January 25. Josiah Wright and thirteen other confederates of the Kelly gang were brought up at Beechworth Police Court to-day and further remanded for a week for the attendance of the police and witnesses who are out after the Kellyg. Wheat, Adelaide, 4s 7d to 4s 8d; flour, £13. The Melbourne Exhibition tenders hare been opened. There were seventeen tenders, and that of David Mitchell was successful. In the case of a woman who died during pregnancy, there are suspicions of an attempt to procure abortion by a well-known surgeon. The body has been exhumed, and an inqueit is pending. . '" McLaren, from New Zealand, agitator of the unemployed, was denounced at a meeting of three hundred, as employed in Sydney during the strike to collect hands for the A.S.N.Co., to replace the seamen on strike. The meeting expelled him ignominiously. Sydney, January 27. In the Champion Scullers' Eace, after the start, and while Laycock was leading, Trickett slightly fouled a passing boat* and Laycock won easily. He stopped to wave his hat near the finish. In the Champion Yacht Eace only Magic and Waitangi, the Auckland yachts, started, Magic leading. Ulyett scored 15 ; Absolom, 22; Horn* by, 0; Lucas, 15. Four wickets for 106. The total score of the English team is 217. A. Bannerman scored 15; Thomp* son, 5; Murdock, 43. Charles Bannerman sustained severe injuries to his right hand while fielding a ball, and is disabled. Queensland, January 27. A female child, from the Orphanage, who was in service, died. The examination shews the result to be rupture of the liver, with external bruises. Elizabeth Ellis, her employer, has been charged with manslaughter.