AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 547, 11 October 1872, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Mining news at Kandhurat is improving, though still dull. The returns are increasing, but the calls are very heavy. The rush to Charters Towers is a failure, and great distress is expected. Frank Roberts, formerly a draper in Sydney', has been committed for fraudulent insolvency ten years since.

Port Darwin news received at Adelaide is very encotir ging. Crushing samples yielded six pennyweights from ten ounces of quartz. Margaret O’Douoghoe, for the murder of Mary OTlouke, iu Punch’s-lane, Melbourne, has been found guilty, and sentenced to death.

John Weechurch, for wounding, with intent to murder, Mr. Duncan, in the Pontridgo Stockade, has been found guilty, and sentenced to death

, The convicts in tho Pentridge Stockade appear to be vicing with each other in the violence of their conduct. Another of those assaults which have been of such frequent occur-cuoe of late iu that establishment has taken place, the overseer of shoemakers, Mr. Bridges, being the victim in this instance.

At tho Melbourne Police Court, a man 'named Thomas Moran, alias “ Tommy, the Nut,” was charged with assaulting and robbing John Lewis, wars discharged. A man then in gaol as a vagrant stated that he himself garotted the man, while two others (whom he named) rifled his pockets. Tho Australasian Steam Navigat on Company, in Sy duey, have received a telegram from Townville, stating that the miners are returning from Charters towers iu disgust and threaten a riot.

The Monta mines (South Australia) have paid 100,000/ iu dividends during the last six months.

The following is a copy of a telegram received by Messrs. Goldsbrough aud Co., of Melbourne, relative to the state of the wool maiket at the end of August:—“ London. August 20.—The market is unaltered, with fair prospects. Trade generally is good ; Bradford rather dull. The Monarch has ■arrived. ”

Kangaroo and Wallaby skins are being largely made use of in Paris for the purpose nf binding books, and the Commissioners for the London International Exhibirion are therefore anxious to obtain from local tanners exhibits of those skins prepared for book-binding.

The latest accounts from Port Darwin are to the effect that specimens of gold in quartz, received from the mining district, have created considerable interest. Some of the stone tried yielded results beyond expectations. Nothing can be done without machinery The miners, having secured their claims, are busy getting up supplies before the wet season sets in.