Australian News.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2808, 27 January 1888, Page 2

Australian News.

A Sir George Whitmore for Australia. Melbourne, January 25, The Argus strongly urges the appointment of one Federal military commander for Australia, .and it expresses an opinion that the capitals could be captured for want of cooperation. Important Gold Discoveries. Perth, W.A., January 25. Several important discoveries of gold are reported from Eoeburne and the Darling Ranges. A Melbourne firm have offered £50,000 for one claim from which a sample of stuff gave Boz to the ton. A Fearful Crime. Brisbane, January 25. Mrs Fitzgerald and her daughter have been committed for trial, for the murder of Mr Fitzgerald, husband of the former, at Warwick on Christmas Day. A Terrible Fate. Brisbane, January 25. A doctor who had been sent for to attend patients at the Roxburgh Downs Station, died of thirst on the way, and the messenger who accompanied him only saved himself by drinking the horse's blood. Re-action is Silver Mine Speculation. Sydney, January 25. A re-action has set in in silver mining stock and shares in some of the Companies have dropped £5. Centenary Festivity. Sydney, January 26. Visitors have been arriving all the week. The hotels are overcrowded, \ and unable to provide sufficient accommodation, The street illuminations and decorations which take place this evening are on a most mag- '. nificient scale, and they are expected i to far surpass those shown on the occassion of Her Majesty's Jubilee. The weather comiti'ios fine, but rain ', is reported to h coming down the i coast.

Strange Prooeedinga at Wanganui Hpspital. Mrs Cooper, of Terrace End, had an unexpected experience at the Wanganui Hospital yesterday, when she went to visit the brother of her late husband, who had been an inmate of the hospital for some time on account of a dangerous illness. On her arrival I Mrs Cooper was very greatly surprised to learn that Mr Cooper had died on the previous day, and when she requested to see the body, she was told she could not do so for an hour or two. She was still more astonished, on her return later on to find that the body had been interred, without any notice being given, and without even the usual funeral rites, as it was her intention to have had the body brought to Palmerston for interment. A brother of Mr Cooper has gone to Wanganui in referencee to the matter, and it is, we understand very probable that the body will be brought on to Palmerston.—Manawatu Daily Times.