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COMMONWEALTH AND NEW
ZEALAND NEWS.
Ab Arraloa, & coastal township, 100 miles
from Gisborne (N.E.), Robert Taylor a
storekeeper, was found dead with tho base
of his skull fractured and nit pocket» turn-
ed inside out. The doctor said that he could
not believe that the injury had been caused
by the man faUing and striking an object,
a« he wag not a heavy man. ?
Mr. Charles Butler, widower, aged ,60
Tears, was fatally gored by * bull at
Landsborough, in Queensland, on Satur-
day. His con, anxious at his father's
long absence,: mads an investigation
and found him ^roplped - up : against a
tree about naif, a aille from his home sufEen
iug ffbtn terrible injartá?; ; He* stated ho
had been attacked b; '^ Jersey .bull belong-
ing to e.; neighbour. - Tho-injured man died
.oin é^iHêmâi^M,-jjbSW«::
The police at Jagersfontein have been
reinforced owing to the fact that the Be>
sutos in the mines have been suspected
of collecting and secreting weapons. Num-
erous weapons have been found by the
authorities.
News was received in Sydney during the
week by the French mail steamer Ville de
la Ciotat, which arrived from Noumea, of *
«hockin gtragedy that occurred on tie is-
land of Halacoota, in the New Hebrides, '
three of the crew of the ketch Gauoeloupe
being done to death by the natives, and
afterwards eaten.
In the Melbourn: Criminal Court on
Friday Daniel Winter, who pleaded guilty
to two offences under thc Maternity Al-
lowance Act, was sentenced to sin months'
imprisonment.
A fire which broke out at the Sunshine
Harvester Works on the 26th inst dam
aged the building to the extent of beV " '
tween £3,000 and £4,000. The damage fe
covered by insurance. The cause of the~
outbreak is mikuown. .
The s.s. Benalla will take 700 British .
emigrants for Victoria and New South ,
Wales. Included in the contingent ar«
141 lads.
Both the (Postmaster-General end tko
Minister for "(lome Affairs have been asked
by Mr. Mahon, M.H.R., the member for Kal
goorlie, to endeavour to find employment
for the 400 men thrown out of work by toe
fire at the Ivanhoe mine.
At the Criminal Court, Adelaide, on the ,
3rd inst., John Charles Smith, seaman of
the T.B. destroper Parramatta, was »en- '
tenced to seven years' imprisonment for
having feloniously shot with a revolver .
with intent to kill, Harvey P. Hundley, * ;
coxswain of the same vessel, at Port Ade-
laide on February 21.
The new pier at Hobart, constructed by
the Marine Board at a cost of £75,000,
for tire accommodation of the largest tyoB.
of vessels, was formally opened for traffic \
on the 2nd inst., by the Governor of Tas- -f>. ;
mania, Sir Ellison Macartney.
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