AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 579, 23 May 1873, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

A slight shock of earthquake was felt in several localities not far distant from Melbourne on the 22nd ultimo. A party of young men at Sydney recently tin-kettlcd a young married couple. The bride’s father fired and shot three of them ; one,lit is supposed, is mortally injured. The Tasmanian gold-fields arc. looking up again. A rich reef, yielding 4f)oz. to the ton, has been discovered at ih°. Nme-imle Springs. The Caledonian Company has declared a second dividend. Both are Fingal companies. The live stock returns for the quarter ending March 31, shows that during the period in (question 112,932 cattle, 110,115 sheep,[an l 313 horses, woro’jimported from New South Wales, and 0,0-10 sheep from South Australia.

A meeting of shearers was hell at Winchelsoaoivthe"23fch of April. There were and 150 parsons’, present, when it was agreed'to form an association, and to charge next season not less than from 14s. to 15s. per 100 11,I 1 , was further agreed to hold meetings in other parts of the colony, with the viewy of forming- other local associations. It Geelong, recently, a most determined suicidcTook place. A warrant was sent against a laborer name l-Tlobert HendersonThe police proceeded to ids -. residence at Ashby, in ordorjto arrest him. His wife said ho had gone out, - and . would lie in shortly. A search! was made, and bo was found in the 'closet hanging’-by his neck, with his feet'six inches from' the ground. He was quiteylead. It would appear that he bad made a noose with some wire used for binding telegraph insulators. (He bad been engagedfju painting telegraph posts.) He then lied *his hands behind him; and jumped of. The wire was attached to the ridge-pole of the closet. The following shocking case of suicide, the Ovens and Murra;/', Advertiser states, occurred at Hurdle-flat, near Beech.worth.

An elderly man nafbed John Jones, a minor, residing in the above locality, Jwas yesterday morning found lying;dead in his bed, his face and -head covered with blood, by a neighbor named Thomas Chapman, who had called on him. Chapman at once gave the

alarm, and, accompanied by another resident of the place, returned to the hut. On a table close to the bed where deceased was lying was found an empty pistol with an exploded cap on the nipple, and a razor, the handle and blade of which were covered with blood. Subsequent examination of the body showed that a portion of the lef; cheek had been blown away, and it almost appeared as if Jones had first attempted suicide by cutting his throat, and then in desperation placed the pistol in his mouth, and tired the shot which caused his death. Deceased had been for some time ailing, and had been an out-patient of the Ovens dist.ict hospital. His' 1 condition seems to have preyed on his mind, as he'hadrthrown out hints to Chapman, who frequently visited him, as to his intention of making away with himself, but the latter had made light of the threads, naturally thinking that the remarks were the result of petulance caused by sickness and poverty. With regard to the reported gold-field in Rivcrina, the Sydney Erenhuj Nev:s states that the following telegram was received on the Ist instant from Commissioner Johnson, Forbes, by the Under-Secretary for Lands, Sydney “ M;.y I.—Gold discovered in a quartz reef at Cargolligo Lake, c.n the Lachlan River, about 12!) miles west from Forbes. Have just returned from that locality. Would recommend gopd-field to be proclaimed five miles back round the margin of the lake, and reserved from conditional purchase. Nothing ns yet discovered to warrant a largo inllux of population. No alluvial gold as yet found. Will report fully on my return to Bathurst.” A correspondent of the Wmjija Wagga. Advertiser writes warning people against a rush. He states that gold has been found at one spot on the surface; that a reef or “ blow” from a reef lias been discovered below the surface, and that the stone shows well, but that nothing beyond this has been found; rnd that sinking for alluvial is a failure, the “ colour” not being found. There arc nearly 200 persons there, doing nothing, with the prospect of not bettering their circumstances.

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