AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8210, 14 August 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A GHASTLY TRAGEDY,

AN AFGHAN MURDERS HIS WIFE.

Received August 13, 10.7 p.m. ADELAIDE, August 13. This morning; a horse attached to a bloodstained buggy was found wandering about at North Adelaide in the vicinity of Torrens Lake. ' While the police were making inquiries au Afghan, named iNatella Rabibulla, arrived at tie watchhouse and reported that his horse bad bolted. The police arrested the Afghan on suspicion. Natella's house was then searched and disclosed evidenoe of a shocking tragedy. ! There were bloodstains all over the building and the yard, but no sign of a body. The police proceeded to Torrens Lake, and dragging it secured a sack containing a woman's lower limbs. it :a believed that Natella murdered his wife during the night, nut her up, and was disposing of the remains when the horse bolted. The murdered woman was a European.. She married Natella a few months ago. Her maiden name was Nellie Manson. Received August 14, 1.21 a.m. ADELAIDE, August 13. The sack found in Torrens Lake contained the whole of the murdered woman's body, which ' was dismembered and horribly mutilated. Though the scene of the crime is in a thickly populated neighbourhood no quarelling or other soond was heard; Natalia was {apparently on good terms with his wife. , Fire on a steamer. ' Received August 13, 9.5 a.m. j MELBOURNE, August 13. I The steamer Laiesz, from Capetown, brings news of a fire on board the Burgermeister-Hachmann, which was en route to Australian and New Zealand ports. She put into Capetown to repair an accident to her pumps, and while she was lying in Table Bay a fire was discovered in a spare bunker, the ooal having ignited in three separate places. Luckily the fire was found before it had damaged vessel or cargo. Seven hundred tons of coal had to be removed before the seat of the outbreak was reached.' When the Laiesz left Capetown the fire was reported to be practically got under, and it was expected that the Burger-meister-Hachmann would resume her voyage in a day or two. A LONG PASSAGE. Received SYDNEY, August 13. The barquenline Kougsbyrd, wbioh has arrived here from Napier after a voyage lasting forty days, reports that she encountered a series of gales, . wbioh caused her to be hove-to frequently. She came through undamaged* AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Received August 13, 9.42 a.m.

{ADELAIDE, August 13. Sic W. J. Lyne, Federal Minister of Trade and Customs, addressing a large gathering, said he hoped the preference treity with New Zealand would be made known before the end of the month. He advocated a general land tax over the whole of Australia for central government purposes. It was impossible, he said, for four million people to stand the tax of six Parliaments, six Governors and all the maohiuery of Government. NEW ZEALAND RACEHORSES. Received August 13, 10.7 p.m. SYDNEY, August 13. Maniapoto has been scratched for the Epsom Handicap. Received August 13, 10.7 p.m. MELBOURNE, August 13*. For Saturday's races Chivalry is weighted at 9st in the Show Handicap, and Up-to-Date at list 51b in the August Steeplechase. ATTEMPT 10 SHOOT A JUDGE. Received August 14, 1.8 a.m. - SYDNEY, August 13. Chief Justice Darley was paying bis uaual week end visit to his mountain home, and was travelling alone in a reserved railway compartment, when, it is reported, on looking out of the window between Springwood and Lawson a bullet orashed through the glass, narrowly missing him. The police have failed to discover the bullet So far the investigations throw no light on the incident.