VICTORIAN EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 523, 26 April 1872, Page 2

VICTORIAN EXTRACTS.

o Hares are multiplying fast in the Beechworth district. An infant lately died in the Ballarat Hospital from the effects of opium, accidentally administered by his sister, aged seven years. A horrible case of alleged malpractice on the part of a medical man named Willian H. Jackson is reported from the Western, district Mr Jackson being called in to atttend a Mrs. Petering whilst in labor, performed the operation of craniotomy, the instruments he used being a carpenter’s auger, and chisel a hook made of fencing wire. The body of the child after birth appears to have been subject to the most indecent treatment before burial. A few days after it bad been buried it was disinterred and an inquest held upon it. As the medical testimony was to the effect that the operation was quite unnecessary, and Mr Jackson was committed to take his trial for manslaughter. In summingup, the coronersaid that ‘‘inthe whota course of his experience he hail never met with a ease so horrible and brutal.” In a letter to the local paper Mr. Jackson defends his conduct, and says that the emergency of the case justified his action. At Alexander, a well was sunk by order of the borough council, but when the rock was reached gold was found instead of water The washdirt was 2ft. thick It is proposed to hand over the shaft for mining purposes. There arc rumors of a monster nugget having been found at Bowling Alley Point New South Wales. “Two youn;gentlemen from Melbourne,’’ the Riverine Herald reports, “have arrived in Echuca with two Bob Roy canoes, in which they intend making a journey to Adelaide, adistance'of 1,300 miles by water. We learn from the Geelong Advertiser that the salmon trout placed in the River Barwon a few months ago are thriving apace. A few days age several of them were seen, their length being Tin. or Sin. A fashionable preacher in a suburb near Melbourne, has recently sold the goodwill of his business for 700f. A new Trade Protection Society lately started in Melbourne, has hit upon a novel method of collect! ng debts. They send round to debtors scarlet- colored envelopes, with only a small oval of white in the middle for i the address. Round the scarlet part appeal the words, “Trade Protection Society.” This is almost as bad as the dunning post card, i Sandhurst, Victoria, will shortly have a peal of hells, the tenor bcllwill weigh2ocwt. and the eight hells will weigh ' S2cwt. in I all