Sydney Wenlum has been committed for trial at Nyngan, charged with attempting to break into the Commercial Bank there, having been caught red-handed. The Australasian Federation League have decided to ask the forthcoming municipal conference to place on their business paper the proposal for the establishment of municipal federation leagues. A sensational episode happened recently at a fancy dress carnival at Bendigo. Mrs Mackay, wife of an employe at Reidle's fur niture warehouse, was attired in a costume elaborately trimmed with wadding to re present " Snow." As she was leaving the hall her dress suddenly burst into flame?, caused either by her standing on a match or by a spark from the pipe of a smoker. Some bystanders extinguished the fire with some difficulty, but not before Mrs Mackay was very severely burnt about the upper portion of her body. A strange tragedy is reported from Derra wong, about twenty miles from Condoblin (N.S.W.), a man named Gimblett and his wife hanging themselves on a recent Saturday morning. The husband went to his father in-law's place two milesdistant, and a sister of the deceased some two or three hours later wenb to Gimblett's house and found Mrs Gimblett hanging to a beam by a greenhide rope. The sister returned, and sent her father and Gimblett back, when the woman was cut down. Mr Bassett (the father-in law) and Gimblett remained with the dead body till four in the afternoon, and then Bassett proceeded to the neighbors' to give information to the police. Upon the return of Bassett and a neighbor named Parsons Gimblett was found hanging to the same rope that his wife had used, with his hands strapped together behind his back. A magisterial inquiry was held, but no fresh light was thrown on the tragedy. The husband was aged twenty-two and the wife eighteen. There is a child four months old, which was at its grandmother's.
