AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 810, 26 October 1877, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

A motion has been passed by the AdeIvde Council offering a bonus of LIO,OOO for the discovery of a coal-field. Mr W. 3. Carke, the well-known Victorian squatter,‘hJS given the Very' handsome donation of L2OOO to the Indian Relief Fund. • A lady travelling recently on the Me’boiiriie and Hobson's Bay Railway received severe injury from a ball, discharged it is impose I, from an air gun. She had a very narrow escape, a portion of the skin and the muscle of her nose having been carried away. • The matter is in the hands of the police, and it is to be hoped that they will be successfal in discovering the offender. MrW’arden Wyatt has made a favorable report to the Victorian Mining Department noon the rush near Rnshworth, in the Onulham district. He says upwards of 500 men are at work, and on the gutter 181wts. to the tnh is obtained. There is every probability that' the ' rush will prove one of the I'rgcst and most permanent whiih has taken place in Victoria of late years. . . . The preliminary investigation of the Do’dstein jewellery ro bery ,js concluded, »nl five men have been committed to tjike their trial for the same. The police weje highly oomplimentedby the "Bench upon the manner in which the case had been managed.. A lively discussion took place recently on the Volunteer Force, in the Victorian House

of Astern ily, when the annual vote was propise I. One of the ‘members stated that' volunteering in-Victoria Was playing at soldiers, and that bo bad seen an officer in the streets of Ballarat, emleavou ing in vain to foim a straight line, and using, in the excitement, certain profane ejaculations. A Chinaman, named Jem Ah Gee, tea merchant/of Melbourne, whose estate has been compel orily sequestered, is supposed to have absconded, carrying away with him L 1,500 in gold. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. Great floods have recently been ■experienced in Gipps Land, doing a vest amount of injury. They have keen the highest that have occurred since 1863. A writer in the Australasian named Mdleb, says :- It appears plain, very, that readers do not sea advertisements which are for their especial good. Besides, they seem to have passed by your kindly remarks in my favor a few weeks since on the rabbit exterminating business. I write ym at this time to say that rry mede of clearing off rabbits is the same as is pursued in Lincolnshire, on the game preserves of noblemen, when such animals become too numerous. It is done by a lozenge, containing vegetable poison. It will draw the rabbits or hares into a heap for shooting. Ah entlosiireis' required of a peculiar construction. I will describe it to all those who buy my lozenge. 1 advertize again this week in'another column. The price has an appearance of being high ; but the lozenge contains chemicals that cost a lot of money. The price is not worth considering, to save hundreds of pounds’ worth of .property to self aud neighbours eventually.