AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 242, 30 June 1874, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Lady Bowen proceeds to England in September ; the Governor follows in December or January to accompany her back. Th© Costerfield (Victoria) Gold and Antimony Mining Company have struck rich goldbearing atone, and antimony ore of the finest quality, in the 520-feet workings. The measure for the payment of members, which has passed through committee in, the Queensland Legislative Assembly, provides that the members of the Assembly shall receive £3 3s. per diem, as remuneration for their services. The ftallamt Courier has been informed that a fortune of £30,000 has fallen to the lot of one of the workmen in a Ballarat foundry. He received the news by the mail, and immediately commenced drinking, w found in the gutter, and finished the* night in the lock-up. v - l! Th,© Viptorian Mining Department offers a reward olf £IOO for the >4is©©v©ry of a safe and efficient means of signalling, between the top of a shaft and the several entrances to it; between the several entrances; and between each entrance (separately) and the surface. The examination of the invention will he conducted by a board to be appointed, and the reward will not be payable until the invention approved by the board shall have been tried for six months. The following story is told in a Melbourne paper :—A young lady lately selected a piece of land up-country, struck up a flirtation with the selector, whose land marched with hers, and pamo to town a week ago to be married to him. On the way down the lover spent the best part of the time on the box seat beside the driver, enjoying his favourite pipe, avid no doubt dreaming of the time when lie would have a lovely being by his fireside to cut his tobacco and darn his socks. The nelectress, left to herself inside the coach, struck up another flirtation with a fellow passenger, to while away the tedium of the journey, and the result was that she married the second man the day following her arrival in Melbourne. The moral is obvious. A bookseller in Melbourne named Terry has been petitioning the Divorce Court for judicial separation from his wife on the ground of cruelty, and has proved his case triumphantly. The poor fellow has enjoyed seventeen years of his amiable wife’s society, and seems never to have dared to call his soul his own in all that time. Blows and hair-pulling, black eyes, and a bleeding nose, were among the most ordinary form of conjugal endearment in his happy home, while his commonest mode of exit from it was through a window, without any hat, and sometimes with no clothes to speak of. The petitioner deposed on oath as follows “ I noticed that her assaults on me usually took place after she had had pork and porter ; it on biliousness, which usually ended