AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 250, 25 August 1874, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Lmdinei and Papapa are reported to have Buffered a good deal by the voyage. Lmdine is jiot to be- sent to Sydney, she being reserved for Melbourne events. Madiime Arabella Goddard proceeds to Dunedin, tia' Melbourne, after performing at'Bathurst; ; I ■■ 1 I , , A young man, named Alexander,, Cairns, has attempted suicide by first cutting his throat, and then by drowning. > > A Chinaman has been found hanging to a tree in the Creswiclr ranges-; The 'Sandhurst''mining dividends for the week amounted, to qver,£lß,ooo., There are 51 Acceptances for the Melbourne Cup.., AfiWUg. those scratched is Calumny, who goes to Sydney. '• Papapa, of the New Zealand .horses, is especially fancied for the Cup. , ■ ' / “ hj ' The Misses Moezlln recently came into possession of a fortune of £30,000, and at once 'proceeded to distribute over’£2o,ooo amongst the charitable institutions of Victoria. Bloudin gave a benefit to the Brisbane Hospital.,. The place.,was crowded. He walked across the .rope with baskets on his feet and shackles on his;legs.. At .the benefit, he carried over a harmonium, and played a selection on the middle of the rope. The Sydney Morning Herald■ says :—“Mr Luscombe Searell, a' composer of promise, who may be sa,id to be almost a native of. New Zealand", has arranged as a fantasia, in a very spirited manner, the celebrated duet, ‘The Bold Gensdarmes,’ from Oflfenback’s opera of ‘ Genevieve de-Brabant.’ This effort of the young musician displays considerable knowledge of, effective composition for the piano-, forte. Master Searell, we are informed, is ■engaged on the construction •of an opera, which he intends to produce in Sydney.” •“ On Friday evening,’’ says the Sydney Morning Herald , “ a scene reminding the spectators oL which have from time to time been given of disturbances in some of the manufacturing districts ' ■of England.•• The captain of the steamer Western, trading between Sydney and some ’northern ports, had, it appears, shipped seven •or eight Chinamen to take the place of some European members.of the Seamen’| Union. About 6 o’clock on “Friday evening the captain sought to get them on board the which was then lying in Darling Harbour. A large crowd of; seamen belonging, it is said, to the Union, collected,-and - would not allow the Chinese- to go on board; The captain procured a furniture van, had the Chinamen, together yvitll their luggage, placed in it, and drove to the Circular Quay. The Western in. the meantime was gqt round into the Cove. The Captain having got the 'seamen to the Circular Quay, then went to •the Water Police Station where all the availsable, hands were directed to accompany him. About 200 or 300 persons had- then assembled •on the Circular Quay*/ behan to-throw, atones and other missiles at the' Chinamen, several of whom were hit- and bi'uised and •cut about the face. The Water Police got the Chinese Into a boat,/Vliieh reached the Western in safety. '• - “ z - : -