AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 649, 25 September 1874, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

The heaviest fall of snow that has been known for years oocnrreil at Wood’s Point on the 31st ultimo. A nugget weighing 35 ounces was found recently at Wilson’s Lead, Danolly, five feet from the surface by a man named Thomas Storey. The North Cross Pecf, Pleasant Creek have just finished a crushing of 1,690 tons of stone, which yielded 4,436 ounces of gold. Blondin’a first performance at Sydney was an immense Success, ten thousand persons paid for admission, and immense crowds assembled outside. Fifty rams were recently sold at Adelaide by auction, averaging Ltd each, one fetching as high as L 177. On the 14th instant, Mr French, boot importer, of William-street, Sydney, drove to Cogee with a party, and whilst strolling along the edge of the cliffs, Mrs French attempted to throw a stone over; the wind caught her dress, and she disappeared into the water. The police proceeded round the coast, hut they did not recover tl o body. At Hobart town two pure bred rams, im ported by the Berean, from London, at d intended for shipment to New Zealand, were destroyed, having shown unmistakeable symptons of foot-and-mouth disc's?. They were upwards of four months on board belore the symptons appeared. A man named Dounias Cass has been arrested by the Keroit police on the charge of committing a rape under very aggravated circumstances upon a married woman named Windle, who lived in a lomdy part of the hush near Mount Taurus. The unfortunate woman had only recently given birth to a child, and in her state of health was powerless to make any resistance. Finger marks on her throat boar v itness to the ruffian’s determination in effecting h;s purpose. The unfortunate woman has since fully recognised the prisoner as the ruffian who assailed her.

Those who most frequently visit the watering places in the summer a’ e milkmen. The Messager dn Midi relates the hj Hewing dieadful story .- —A young married woman residing at Saloon died shortly after her confinement. The medical man who was hastily summoned when her illness assumed a dangerous form certified herdeath, and recommended immediate burial in consequence of the intense heat then prevailing, and six hours afterwards tho body was interred. A few days since tho husband having resolved to ro-marry,' tho mother of his late wife desired to have her daughter’s remains moved to her native town, Marseilles. When tho vault was opened a horrible sight presented itself, the corpse layin the middle of the vault, with dishevelled hair and the linen torn to pieces, it evidently had been gnawed in her agony by the unfortunate victim. Tho shock which the dreadful spectacle caused to tho mother has been so great that fears are entertained for her reason if not for her life.