SYDNEY.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3357, 25 September 1879, Page 3

SYDNEY.

[Special Wire to " Star."]

(Peb Pbbss Association.)

September 18. A Chinaman in Surrey street, Sydney, got out of bed, took a'revolver out of his bos and levelled it at his European wife 5 be kept her under cover for a long time then fired a ball and hit her in the mouth which lodged tinder the ear, he fired again and hit her under, the collarbone. The cauae is jealousy. The victim is in a precarious state. The new Sydney tramway is working successfully, the horse traction steam motors readily being put together. Cabmea apparently like the rails as they habitually run on the track. , Hackett, Morgan, and Fawceth, directors, and Willis, manager of the Provincial Suburban Band, were arrested for conspiracy to defraud, and brought before the City Court. They were remanded, the bail being themselves in .£IOOO, and two sureties of £500. It is believed Government will take no action in the payment of members question, during the present session, on the ground that the Government party is pledged to an agreement entered into with the Upper House.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Charles Fair, late quarter-master of the John Elder, was charged with abducting Florence Shaw, 17 years of age. The girl, with her mother and step-father arrived by the John Elder, and during the voyage the intimacy was formed. On arriving in Adelaide, Fair took the sjirl to a tent on the Maim railway and has since lived there with her. He had ascertained that her grandfather had left her £300. Fair was committed for trial.

The second rending of the Bill to reform the Council Was carried in the Assembly by 30 to 8, giving a necessary and absolute majority.