Australian.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3094, 3 January 1889, Page 2

Australian.

i . Sydney, Jan. 1. .: Fonr inches of-rain- has fallen in the southern districts. - The price of atock has rison and that of produce fallen. ' v 1 .... - Adelaide, Jan.;l. ,i ; A coach conveying a picuio party, fell over aproeipice to-day, and a man . named Browning -.was - killed. Twenty-fivS others wero: injured, three of them seriously. ..■ ■ . . MußouaNEi Dec. 81. ■ A woman named Georgeaon ,was kicked to death in the Chinese quarter of the town this, morning by a man whose name. is unknown, but has since been arrested. . ■. .' Sydney, January 2. .The revenue of last year exceeds that of 1887 by'upwards of £BOO,OOO. " Homier, January 2. The revenue: for the year has increased by £42,070 over last year's letuins.

Disastrous Floods in Australia- : Melboubnk, January 2nd. , The most disastrpus..floods which have 'been experienced'jince 1854 took place at ". Castlemaine yesterday i afternoon and night. - A portion of the bridge was swept through, the town. All the railway bridges from Castlemaine : to Chewtou have been destroyed, and the. damage' to property is enormous, -. Railway traffic has been suspended.' Mrs Matthews, who. in her endeavours to avoid the rush of the water, got on the table with heryoiingest child, overbalauce'd it and both were drowned, - Two miners, named O'Connor and Dennis, were drowned, owing to the Francis 'Ormond mine flooding,;, .

THE BRADFORD MURDER,

Hombie Brutality.

Loldok, December 80.

The victim of the Bradford murder turns out to be a girl eight years old. Her legs and arms-were' roughly chopped off and tied to the body; her oars were cut off, and there wero two stabs on the body; the heart and in-, testines were torn out. The remain's were wrapped in a rough covering. In some other respects the murder resembles the Whitechapeltragedies. The first theories was that tbe Crime had been committed by some drunken lads inflamed by reading the account) of the London horrore, but a milkman named Barrett has been arrested against, whom a strong suspicion exists. A bloodstained sack aud knife which accurately fitted the wounds on the body, were fomd in his lodgings.

Shocking Suicide at the Thames

A most distressing, suicide occaried at Waiomo on Saturday last, 'Ait old miner named Philip Boran, who was about neventy years of age, deliberately. lilhw iiiiiiEelf in pieces »iib dynamite. The first new# of t hp tragedy'reachod tho polioe on'Moiidav evening, and ■ Constable Bern wis at once despatched to Waiomo to make enquiries into the matter, as*nothing bus then known definitely, as thn body had not been found. The following letter was found in BevanV whare: " Wrtiotrio, December 22.—*1 have this day taken iny life by placing a niiiHtiirrf tin of dynamite tinder my head and letting it off in the usual way, namely, with detonator and fine. My. reason for writing this is that it my reinaiiiß were found, no wan shall I>b blamed for. my death.—Philip Bevan." A party, wan immediately organised and a search made for tlm mining man, with the result that his remains were found by ConslaUe Bern and a man named .Hummer in the gully, Only the trunk of the. body remained, the head and neck heing completely shattered and blown away by the violence of. the explosion, an a mustard tin contains three charges of dynamite, . The scene of the tragi dy ' presented a molt sickening spectacle, ; fragments of hrain ami neck being scattered about on sbrut'S and tiees In the vicinity. The remains were brought into Grahamstown, and an inquest held on Wednesday, when a verdict to the efl'ect.tliat deceased committed suicide was returned. It appeals that Bevun has been tributing for somo time pant at Waiomo, aiid shortly before Chi iEtiiias commenced crnshing, dating the progress of which he visited Tb»mei, and in response to a query as to how he thought it would turn .out, he replied, 11 Oh, I don't knotv; if it dor* not (urn out all right I will blow niv biains out with dynamite." A few ilnya later the crashing whs finished, liuithe gold Was small and not by and means Hp. to expectations, nnd hencethe.causeoftherashact, Bevun has been very unsuccessful for a considerable time paßt, and consequently in very |ow spirits, :