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General News.
Alice Olive Tragardh appeared in the
Criminal Court in Melbourne on Wednes
day on a charge of having, in Brunswick,
on December 14, thrown oil of vitrol over
Reuben Keirl. The Ohiel Justicc (Sir
John Madden), addressing the jury, spoke
strongly against the girl, however wrong
ed, taking the law into her own hands.
Such conduct, he said, was absolutely
opposed to the principles of British. law
and the general sanity and good sense of
the community. It could never be sup
posed that a girl who had been insulted
in the street could go and shoot or throw
vitriol at -any one. Such a thing was not
tolerable. The accused was not entitled
to sympathy. She knew that Keirl was a
married man, grid she had done his wife
wrong, while Keirl had done wrong to
both women. Keirl was undoubtedly a
man of persistently bad character, who
made it appear that he possessed qualities
far from common to men, or else he was
a' confident and conspicuous liar. The
jury brought in a verdict of not guilty,
and Tragardh was discharged.
Mr. Hughes, the Federal Attorney
General, has been offered the position of
Chief Commissioner in the Inter-State
Commission, and it is understood that he
will accept.
Exports of wheat and flour from Aus
tralia to oversea destinations since the
middle of December, 1912, amount ap
proximately to 13,043,200 bushels, or
349,371 tons. The value may be esti-.
mated approximately at £2,322,000. ,
Adam Richley Cuthbertson, a commer
cial traveller, of Auckland (N.Z.), aged
135, was arrested on a charge of mis
' appropriating £400 belonging to his em
ployer. He subsequently took prussic
acid, and died almost immediately.
The body of a baker named Robert
Wilson has been found in a waterhole at
Coleraine. He was apparently drowned
while bathing.
? Mr. E. J. Hogan (Labor) was returned
for the Warrenheip electorate in the Vic
torian Assembly by a majority of 25 over
Mr. W. B. Clark (Liberal). The totals
were-Hogan, 2 Oil; Clark, 1,886.
A young girl named Esther Porter has
been waylaid and murdered at Punch
bowl, about nine milea from Sydney,
amid circumstances of brutal ferocity.
No arrest has yet been made, but the
police are hopeful of making one soon.
Mrs Charles Vandewater, widow of a
"Vancouver " lumber king," who died
there recently, is said to have left her
fortune, valued at £1,400,000, to a poor
factory girl named Esther Sleight, of
Kingston, New York. The lady became
attached to the girl two years ago, when
visiting the great Atlantic City, the sum
mer resort of New Jersey. Miss Sleight
was at that time a servant in one of the
hotels, and was so attentive to the widow
that a friendship sprang up between them
and has been maintained ever since. At
present Miss Sleight, who is only 2(J year,
of age, is employed iu a cigar factory, and
helps to support her father and mother,
who are in jtoor circumstances.
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