Australian.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3032, 18 October 1888, Page 2

Australian.

Syonev, .October 16. . In the year 1864, DrDrummond, an English medical practitioner, had' his diplomas stolen, and the most searching inquiries lailed to secure tlm recovery of the missing documents. Forsomeyears past a doctor of the same name has itnjoyed a lucrative practice at the town of A'shfield, New South Wales, on tho suburban railway line, hut in somo minds there has beert a doubt as to his bona fides. The Medical Board of the oolony, aftermakingthe necessary. summoned this DrDrummond before them, but since this invitation was issued the pseudo medico, missing, and it is alleged that h'e has decamped with £6OOO, a portion of a legacy'left to his wife. '■ Tho South Bulli Company's miners have struck. Several arrests have been made hi connection with the Wallsend riots,

A futile attempt was made to-day to meek the Wallsend train, in which the manager of the Wallsend mine was supposed to be travelling. •> ■'-■. Brisbane, October 17. A fisherman, cruising in the neighborhood of Keppel covered the missing ship Eastininster which left Maryboroughfor Newcastle on 17th February last. The vessel was found a long way inside the coral reef, and the hull appeared to be intaoti There was evidence that the. survivors of the wreck had been on the reef, and writing was discovered on portions of the wreck, but the fisherman could not read it. Tho Frenchman, Duhamel, who murdered • Mrs Eiley, liis paramour, at>; Croydon, has been sentenced to death..- . •" ' Pkiitu, Ootober 17. A most remarkable petition.has been presented to Parliament by the proprietors of the Western Australian newspaper' against Chief Justice Onslow.. They allege that for the past five years they have been robbed, plundered, persecuted, insulted, and assailed in the basest manner, both by public speakers and other journals and they cannot obtain any redress owing to the animosity displayed towards them by the Chief Judge,