COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2698, 31 December 1909, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

j V ,« r - ■ - MORE OF ARMIDALE TR AGEDY. i‘ X ■ / ’ i •’ : : . , P 5 * ited Press Association —Copyright. y -v;”-: SYDNEY, Dec. 30. A man named Casey has been arrested on a charge of murdering the girl Kelly, at Armidale, on December 13th of last year, and for Avhich the victim’s room mate, Agnes O’Leary, was tried and acquitted. LANDING A STOWAWAY. The captain of the missionary vessel John Williams denies a statement published a few Aveeks back that he had landed a native Avoman stowaAA-ay on a reef in such a jiosition that she had to undergo great hardships to reach her home. He states that he landed the woman on a reef within four miles oilier home.

■ to visit iiAoitn.Axn. The Premier of .New South Wales, Mr Wade, accompanied by his wife and son, left for Auckland by the steamer Maheno. . VICTORIA WANTS MORE RAILWAYS J' MELBOURNE, Dec, 30. The State session ilist closed approved of six hew railways, involving an ex-, penditure.of £078,000. j r LORD KITCHENER POPULAR. r . BRISBANE, Dec. 30. . . Lord Kitchener- was enthusiastically welcomed on his arrival at Townsville. He reaches here on Saturday. DEATH FROM BURNS. - (Received December 31, 12.35 a.m.), . . MELBOURNE, Dec. 30. The third Hooper child has succumbed to its burns. [The child was burned through an explosion of methylated spirits while her mother was ironing with a patent iron heated with them.]