AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 517, 15 March 1872, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Latest Victorian news- contains the intelligence of a most destructive fire having occurred at Inglewood, when the Empire, Stor, and Shamrock Hotels and Messrs. Reddi2k, Burnett, and Savage’s stores wore consumed. Judge Skinner has decided, at Sandhurst, that the doctor of a benefit society is only called upon to attend a member gratuitously when the illness has resulted from natural causes. •• The Ballarat Post says:—“ During the hearing of attempt to commit a criminal as sault his Honor the Chief Justice slightly astonished some ‘ladies’ who wore waiting in expectation of a tre it in the Circuit Court to-.day. His Honour first said, ‘Ail decent women had now better leave the court,’ hut none of the gentler sex - move I an inch whereupon his honor said, ‘Women who are not decent may remain’, and then some few females made a rush towards the door.” A man named Hancock, convicted of having committed a criminal assault upon his daughter, has heou sentenced to death. In Sydney February the 27th was observed as a public holiday for the holding of

thanksgiving services in all the Churches for the recovery of the Prince of Wales. The Tc Deum was sung in the’ Catholic Churches. Mr. Bryan, Resident Magistrate at Maitland, N.S.W., was drownded whilst bathing in the Hunter River. Largo nuggets have been found at the new rush in Queensland known as Charles Towers, one weighs 1230z. 14dwt. . From Gympie, the news from the rosfs shew that the yield from the quartz is equal to anything yet discovered. From 1,038 tons crushed at the Enterprise ~.a-chinc, chinc, the yield was 2,255 ounces, end 582 tons crushed at 'ho United machine, yielded 2,398 ounces.

A man named John Reardon was committed for trial the other day at Corowa on a charge for assault with intent on a young woman. The evidence showed the prisoner Lad made a mistake. The girl resisted and called out loudly, till some people came, hut previously to their arrival, she had, as she stated in her evidence, marked him in the face with a butcher’s knife. This man will not repeat the offence. Typhoid fever is prevalent in Sandhurst, since the hegining of the year, eight cases have been treated in the District Hospital. The following is the rate of wages paid to miners—Ballarat, 455. per week ; Bendigo quartz miners in deep sinking, 50?. ; others, 455. ; Alexandra, 50a ; GippsiLand, from 455. to 50s. An attempt has been made in Sandhurst to reduce the wages to 425.

The Queensland Times says, in its last summary for Europe, that “the reports from the principal Queensland gold mines are still of a very favorable and encouraging nature. On the older fields results have been obtained which tend to increase the confidence of the miners, while on the new fields the richness of the deposits and magnitude of the workings are becoming ■ more apparent every day. The Etherige promises to be the most important goldmining district in the colony, and it has the advantage of being healthily situated on dry land.”