AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 1, 3 November 1869, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

The rieW season at the Duko of Edinburgh Theatre, Melbourne, opened pro misingly with a large attendance on the 9th inst, when the prime attraction was the first appearance of Messrs Diaz, ilbanezj and Oorrea, acrobats from Spain. Seiiores Dias and Coitor niado th-;ir« bow in a. performance on the double trapeze, which was very startling, and broufghtf # . . tlov.'u immense applause ; as did also tRo combined dancing bail and la perchs business by Sefiores llbanez and' Din?. Sefior Tlbancz, in an act called El Ilerouh, displayed astonishing strength, balancing a . '■■ 701b t c'anuon bull on his head while ha * carriAi °ne of 301bs in each hand. The ladder in the air by Diaz and Oorrea wa<j very perilous. But a novel edition of tiri ' Niagara. Leap by the three performers • capped anything of this kind of s:msa tionalisiu which has ever been soon in Melbourne. Sefior llbanez, hung head downwards from the proscenium, having his feet in a couple of loop.', and held n small trapeze, from the bar of which hung Sefior Diaz, head downwards .also, and holding Senor Oorrea by one leg. The danger seemed so awful that the greater portion of the audience sat spill bound,. without the heart to applaud. Of eourso the performers received a s'toi us of plaudits when they descended. The Melbourne A'jr. h\ta that another pastoral prince, Mr James Glass, s piatter, of Singleton, N.S.W., has had to give war before Use force of circumstances. Liabilities, £130,000; assets, til 1.000. The expedition sent out under Mr For rest's command in April last, towards Up interior.of the continent, by the Government of Western Australia, in the hop*, of clearing up the mystery which envelopes the fate of the long lost Lcichardt, has returned in safety, but without finding any trace of the lost party. The statement-, made by the aborigines two years ago inspecting the remains of white men soon many years agu ia'tuc : ..l.r:;r . :■: im--'-as to cany conviction iviiii them, and induce the belief that they could ba nono other than those of the partv of the lost explorer. The localities pointed out hav 2 now been travelled over without success, and we are leu to impugn 'he veracity of ;l blackfe'low" at our leisure. The country is described as being without any permit, nent water, quite unfit for slock, ar.i otherwise discouraging. Thajhmilton Spcclohr of the 18th ir.st., contains art account of an inquest which was held at the Moravian settlement, renshur.it, Victoria, on <he body of e. woman named Elizabeth Knolsrh, which disclosed a most extraordinary ease of religious belief, extending to the denial of medical aid,' on tlrs ground that bclicvera require no doctor. The pastor of the Moravian body, a Mr Krunnon, stated that the deceased had by" ill about a fortnight, and that everything wee done for her com fort, but no doctor was''ah >d in, or medicine. given tc her. because !•• hovers require no doctor. Soup, tea, coiil;, and sometimes ] beer, wore given to deceased, but no medicine. The pastor said it was in accordance | with the rules of the [Society not to'cali in a doctor, no mattor how bad any sick | member might be, —the Lord and prayers i being their doctor. The jury returned a j verdict that the cause of death was heart I disease, tind attache.;! a rider co the effect i that the doctrine of not calling in medical aid in cases of sicknc 'a lent is contrary to the inter.:.... <; .eeaunuv and reason. Captain Drown, of (..•_• ship Isabella ! .Drown, informs us (Melbourne Age) that _ I on his present, as also on his previous j voyage to Foo Chow, he whnessal a curi- ; mis phenomonou when half, way between ■: the Straits of Manipa and Ombey. On the ! night of the 28th August, at about halfpast eight o'clock, the sea,-sis far as the ! eye could reach, presented a surface of daz- •. j zling whiter-efts,'appearing, but for the imI cliilatiou of the water, as if it were a vast \ " ; field of snow. This Lusted fur two hours,.- ■ i and on the vessel's passing out ol it, the, j horizon from east to west shewed an it> I tense glare of light. A bucket of water , was drawn while p.i*>ing through" the j " white sea," but althnu ;!i a number of • I light globules were plainly vlslbk therein, i they were n lite distinct from the animalJ cube commonly met with at Sea. The salary of Mr Weld, the thu'erinu' ! of Western Australia, was to he LTJ.OOO ; j it is now to bo .£2500. I Mr Krotft, the ouralor uf the Sydney* • mil i-.'U'.u. and Professor T!t;vnp-r>n, in ex . . ! ploring flic Wellington caves, New South ' I Wales, have discovered the remains o"f ex I tinct animal., hitherto unknown to science