AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2765, 28 December 1871, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

The Brisbane Courier of December !) says : —With this day will conclude the twelfth year of the existence of Queensland as a Colony having self-government. Since separat'd! the population has increased, in round numbers, from ‘28,000 ISO,OOO, and the revenue ffc.m L 178.589 to an amount that has not been over-estimated at 1/783,80(5.” An insolvent, who is evidently a man to be pitied, assigns as his cause of insolvency ‘‘having married a woman in Adelaide, and being compelled to pay L*2oo, amount of debts contracted by her when single.” The latest novelties in the theatrical line in Melbourne are thus noticed by the Argus : —St. George’s has been opened by Mr ’tfydevby Jackson, with what the advertisements call the “ London Star Comic Combination.” The entertainment is of the stylo said to be so popular of late in the London music halls. The ladies of the company act, dross, and talk in the very advanced girl of the period style. Mr Rickards sings character songs after the manner of Mr Barry O’Neil, and is likely to become a favorite with the public in this line. The other members of the company were merely tolerated. The hall was Idled in every part. The funeral of the late Rev. G. Mackic, of the South Yana Presbyterian Church, was one of the moat remarkable occasions of its kind in Melbourne. Tl,;c deceased had doaired that ahouiilbe private, but the eagerness of those who desired to attend was too great, and hence thtro was a regular public procession. Except that the funeral ceremony was according to Presbyterian fashion,.

Ih 3 denomination of which the deceased gentleman had been a minbter would scarcely have been known for the leading clergy and laity of all the other 1 roustant. denominations Hocked to do honour to the memory of the departed, and even Jews joined in the [i.ocecdiugs. The Oddledows, Keclnibitcs, Orangemen, and Free Gardeners also seeded the funeral rorfeii*. Although the deceased s life was insured it was well-known that he had recently suffered very pecuniary owing to misplaced confidence in one whom he thought he could trust. After the funeral his friends held a meeting, at which ■ ir James M’Culloch presided, and the Bishop of M clbourne took part, and thereat twentyseven gentlemen, put down their names lor L 575. Linin'*. —It is said that the light of a match will frighten a wolf ; but a love match sometimes fails to keep the wolf from the door. I’or.riK S'cmijs.— A San Francisco editor thus addresses an Oakland brother: "‘\oii wallapns you itehy-odornlite, yon bogus hj nnmochrysos, yon--yon Oak lander !’ Men ire frequently like tea the real strength and goodness is not properly drawn out of them till they have been for a short time in hot water. Though some people get rich by sheer good luck, yet to sit down, fold our arms, and wait her coming, would be to act like the fool who wailed on the bank of the river till he was nigh to perish with hunger, expecting that the water would rim out at last, and he be able to pass over dry shod.