AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 549, 25 October 1872, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

The latest news received from Port Dar win, are to the effect that no alluvial digging has been discovered, and that with regard to the reefs, nothing can be done until machinery is erected. The rush to Charters Towers is a failure. Hundreds of diggers are returning. The steam boat Companies have reduced the fares considerably to returning diggers. Mining news from Gipps Land are very encouraging. A correspondent writing to the Australasian from Enoch’s Point, some sixteen miles from the Jamieson, say?s: — “That the place is a term incognita tomoat people of Victoria; but it should not beso. I veryjmuch doubt if there would be a more prosperous district if it was known but hal fso well as it deserves. Within a radius of six miles from the small township there are ten quartz reefs, all idle ami what for! simply for the want of capital to erect machinery for crushing.” In Adelaide, the other day?, a libel case was heard, in which a number of Parliament sought damages for an innuendo conveyed in the words that he had been “got at." experts-men “of sporting experience” were summoned as witnesses to explain this mystic term, but ultimately the judge directed a nonsuit. Mining Perns from Ballarat and S.vidhurt are not very encouraging. At the latter place there have been however some verygood yields from several of the companies, anditis expected that things will soon improve The Castlemain reefs are improving. Returned diggers from Charters Towers consider the reported finds there a hoax. At Adelaide the well known professional pedestrians Hewitt and Riggings have been beaten by ono Good fellow, who received fourteen yards start Large quantities of rich quartz specimens have been brought down to Adelaide from the Darwin. The man Elton, who about two years ago murderedjiis stepson at Sandridge by cutting the hriy’s throat, and who, after being sentenced to death, was found to he insane and sent to the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum isjnow considered sane, and has been removed to the Melbourne Gaol