AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 597, 26 September 1873, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

On Monday, the Bth instant, a man named Schruger was killed in the shaft of the New Chum Company, Sandhurst, by the cage crushing him against the wall. New diggings have been discovered near the Jawbone Gold-field, Sydney, with moderate prospects. Twenty-one thousand tons of coal were lately exported in one week from Newcastle. For the past eight months the yield of the New South Wales Gold-fields show a decrease of 26,000 ounces Rabbits are increasing so npidly in the Adelaide country that Parliament has been urged to take immediate action with a view to their destruction. A splendid nugget of one hundred and seventy-five ounces has lately been found in the Eldorada Claim, Smythesdale. The Agent-General for Adelaide in England has appointed sixty-seven agents for emigration purposes. A bridge is to be very shortly constructed across the Murray by the Governments of Victoria and New South Wales. At Sandhurst, on the 11th instant, two gentlemen, named Morrison and M Conch, were drowned in Grassy Plat Reservoir. Wallen, late cashier in the Union Bank at Brisbane, has been remanded on a charge of embezzlement. The latest news from Port Darwin is to following effect- “ Labour, stores, and machinery are arriving daily for various companies. The Kapunda party are down thirty feet on No. 3 lease, and the stone is carrying gold to the bottom. The Royal Standard prospects are good, and a large, rich reef has been opened on the Christmas Claims." On the 9th instant a shocking accident occurred at Sandhurst, in' the claim of the Carlisle Company, Garden Gully. James Hamilton, the head engineer, was in the shaft at the two hundred foot level, taking measurements of the pumps. He held out his right hand to pull the knocker, when the cage descended, cutting off his arm above the elbow, and the limb fell down the shaft. By telegram .received at Melbourne it appears that the woel-known ship Great Briiain made the run home in sixty-two days. The “ Geelong Advertiser” says that deer-stalking on the Brisbane Ranges will soon become a favourite pursuit, between thirty and forty of those animals having recently been seen in one herd. They are said to be very attentive to the young crop*, and the farmers in the district therefore make sportsmen very welcome. Bam ford, the Victorian executioner, has died recently in the Melbourne hospital. A New York paper solemnly assures its readers that Mr. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the ‘‘New York Herald,’’ has for some time been madly in love with one of the King of Denmark’s daughters, and that there is every prospect he will be successful in gaining her hand.