AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 554, 29 November 1872, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Sir James Ferguflson enters upon bis duties as Governor of. New Zealand in March next, but it is not known yet when he leaves Adelaide,- or who is likely to be his successor. The news from Port Darwin is very uu satisfactory wbh regard to the reefs. . Edward Chapman, son of one of the partners in the firm of Simms'ard Chapman, brewers, of Adelaide, has been scalded to death in a vat of beer., In Adelaide, the Juvenile Offenders Bill, which has been read a second time, provides for the whipping of larrikins. The Specimen Quartz Mining Company at Jamieson, in the Gipps Land District, recently obtained 728 ounces of gold from a crushing of 34 tons, of stone. The revenue obtained by the Sydney Government from mineral leases for the past ten months, amounted to 129 000 d At Ballarat,- mining matters are very dull. The returns from some of the mines' at Sandhurst are very good, but on the whole business is very flat. .. ’ ; At Port Darwin, a good number of the diggers .. have accepted the employment offered on public works daring the. wet season, intending to try the country further next year. The following attempt at suicide was made recently by a steeplechase rider, named Jas. West, aged 25, residing in Little Bourke-street He was in a Sandridge cab coming to Melbourne, at about 7 o’clock, and at Prince’s bridge said ha ’ wanted to speak to. a friend. He got out of tho cab, and immediately mounted on the parapet in the centre of the bridge. The cabman called out, and Constable Wilson ran up, but jnst as he reached the spot, West, who was standing on the ledge outside, said, “Good-bye,”, and jumped down into the centre of the Yarra. The constable called to a boatman at Edwards’s . shed, who had just comete, and the boatman put out and rescued West, who did hot sink, but was floating down the river. West was taken to the hospital, where bo seemed to be somewhat stunned by- the fall, but not otherwise hurt, The .distance which tho man jumped was some thirty or forty feet. He had l>een drinking. * Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.— Without a vestige of mercury or other dele terious mineral particles, are composed entiraly,of vegetable extracts, form the most ■ powcrful’combiuation ever discovered for i tisfe ffcnf of internal diseases. They renovate system, act us feme a* . well as an aperient in all'stages-of'diMase* or conditions of tho body.