AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 515, 1 March 1872, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

o Diptheria is becoming very prevalent in many place*. A smart shock of e rlhqunke was felt on the 23rd ultimo at Wa.'ga Wagga. The dec which have been ace ima’ised are inn easing very faet anl spvetvlin • over the country, As many us thirty hj ive been s°en in a moh. Fatal accidents are consa- tly occurring throughout the country, from 1 lie incautious use in de of keros ne in the lighting of fi es. A mining manager at Bcndiio has be n. committed fo> trial for mans’anghter, fuallowing an m safe rope to be used, whe cby a man was ki led. ichaul Cantwell, eighty years of age, hanged himfilf at. Tal ilk. The cause a*sigmd wrs intemperance The !atc-t i ew> from Sandhurst is to the elfect that things arc quiet, but healthy. The cases of sunstroke throughout the country have been more numerous during the recent hot weather than has ever before happened. Another plaj.no besides that of ‘•locusts” sa\s the Pleasant Creek News has attacked the crops in th it elis’rict. “Some of the paddocks hearing very heavy crop's of o its have hem overrun by myriads of caterpil. lars. So densely thick were they that at one time they seem ed liter ally to co\ er the ground as with a sheet of life. In some eases the damage done was such, that in some paddocks, the crops will nut he cut down at ail. they being utterly profitless. A man named Edward Worrell was recently killed in a claim owned by the (i. 0. Company. Whilst working in the bottom of the shaft, a bucket filled with stone Ml from near the top on his head, and death resulted immediately. An attempt has been made to reduce the rate of miners’ wages at Sandhurst, which has called forth a goo I deal of indignation on the part cf the workmen. A curious scene was wiln sse I at the departure of t' e steamer Dandenong for ■ s ydncy on the 2nd instant. Ah .vender M'Crca, the Sydney storekeeper whoso wife eloped with a young squatter named Cass, proceeded clown to the vessel at the whaif, and went on hoard with his luggage, being accmnpanie 1 by his wife, who, he believed, intended to return with him, but who it appttars had taken her boxes, con. tabling dummy lugja.e, to the wharf, leaving her real property behind, es she purposed to leave the vessel at the last moment, and remain in Melho. r io. C'he Becomingly induced her husband to go be■ow to look after his berth just as ho vessel was about to haul off; hut apyi cntly herimention suddenly flashea ..e.oss ihe husband’s min I, as he anxiously called her to conic he o > for a minute to look at his bunk. Unsuspectingly she went below, to the amu.-em a.t of a number of spectato.s who knew the tela.ions between the two and saw both siiles of tlie game ; hut when she attonrpte I to coma up again her hueha.el prevented he', aid a ennsidcable com notion wis heard. At last she broke hj osrushc i n.mn deck and to the . i.lo < f thevqssel; hut here she was toiled, for there was alargi gap of water between the steamer and the whart. Seeing a lighter moored near she was about juo ping up. n it, hut hesitated, au i in a tin merit u was ; too late. Finding she could n > pet ashore she turned her aticmion to her hush; ml,. 1 who was the least an used of ;ny it the | pa-sen ers, while the vessel wait down the river, as the wotn.-n had to revenge not only her disappointment, lut the loss of her bona file In page, which remained j stowed away in Med bourne.