AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2932, 30 April 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(ill ELECIHKJ TKLKOBAI'H—UOI'VIIK.'HJ). Mei.ijoi'uxk, April 127. Thk Hindoo, Fatta Chird, who was sentenced to death on a charge of murderirg a fellow-countryman, was hanged this morning. April 2S. A syndicate has cornered the Bear Hill gold shares, fully seventeen thousand of which have been oversold, at prices rauging from los to 30s. Many leading brokers have been entrapped iuto heavy losses. The report of the labour federation committee to the Labour Cougress attri- , butes the defeat of tho labour party iu the recent strike to the ineffectfvu power of the unions to take concerted action, and the inadequacy of a common defence fund to meet demands upon it. Major Churchward, a member of the Commission which inquired into the explosion of the gun at Queeusc'iff, has forwarded an individual opinion to the Government, iu which he couteuds that if anyone was to blame it was the Victorian (.lovci'ument for purchasing and using breech block mechanism of a certain type before it had been properly tested and proved to be a success iu England. Adelaide, April 28. Some time ago two blacks were shot at Piuke river, as it was alleged, by blank trackers. It has now been found that the trackers shot the men uiidnr instructions from Constable VVilshire, who afterwards burned the bodies. He is to be. arrested. April 20. The quarantine restrictions placed ou vessels arriving from Colombo owing to the prevalence of small-pox there have been removed. rSiMSJJANK, April L'!>.

Several unionists, cm a charge of aiding aud abetting the leaders ia the recent riots, were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from two to three mouth--. At the trial of the Peak Down rioters at Roekhamplou, a panel of two hundred and seventy jurors was exhausted without getting a jury.

SvriXLY, April lift. All the patients whom Uγ. Wilkinson had been treating with Professor Koch'a tubcrculinc show signs of improveinunt, aud have much increased in weight, lie says he has uo hesitation in advising the treal'iient in snitiVi'p caws.