AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3287, 2 September 1873, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A terrible example was made by Mr Justice Fellows, at the Melbourne Criminal Sessions, of a prisoner who had been convicted of abusing a child of tender years. The man’s name was Michael Clancy, and the offence with which he was charged was committed under extremely aggravated circumstances. His Honor sentenced him to ten years’ imprisonment, with hard labor, the first week of every month during the period to be spent in solitary confinement, and to be thrice whipped during the first six months of his incarceration, receiving eighteen lashes on each occasion. “Kangaroo hunting extraordinary is the title of au amusingly told article in the Qwlony

Advertiser. A man named Fox who had been engaged for a considerable time kangaroo hunting on Mr Twomey’s run, Mount Rose, invited the runholder and a friend to witness the manner by which he had been successful in procuring plenty of game. Fox dressed himself in a couple of kangaroo skins, got the butt end of his gun between his legs to imitate the tail, and thus disguised as an old man kangaroo, hopped out into the fields. Unfortunately for him the boys who had charge of his dogs allowed them to slip too soon, and befoie he had time to get rid of his dress the smaller dogs were in full Sry, and the larger pounced upon him and endeavored to grapple him by the throat. Of course, his invited friends were immediately on the scene and effected his rescue, otherwise it is more than probable that he would have been worried. It may be mentioned that everyone thoroughly enjoyed the sport with the exception of the huntsman. The bench and the bar in Now South Wales do not agree very well, judging from the charges brought against Judge Josephson, of Sydney, by Dr Simon Bclinfante, a barrister of that city. The latter charged the judge before the Supreme Court with systematic ill-feeling, discourtesy, and partiality towards him as a practitioner in his courts, which he could only attribute to “corrupt and malignant motives.” A whole string of instances were brought forward in support; of the charge, none of which, however, went much further than to show that Mr District Judge Josephson is not quite a judicial Chesterfield, and that Mr Bclinfante generally managed, somehow or other, to lose his case. Their Honors dismissed the case with a “ left-hander” to both parties. The Judge had been “ exceedingly wrong” in some, if not all the cases mentioned, and it was possible that “a very suspicious, angry, or impulsive man” might imagine that the wrong was intentional ; but they, with better knowledge of the learned Judge, believed his to have arisen from other causes than those imputed, and in any case there was not sufficient evidence to sustain the charges. The humorous publications make a good deal of capital out of the cxiycance of the modern domestic servant. Let me give an instance in real life. A young married lady was in treaty with a nursemaid at a Eourko street registry office, and the negotiation promised to eventuate successfully. The future nurse, however, inquired, “What is the weight of your baby?” The mother couldn’t answer satisfactorily. She had omitted to weigh the baby ; and of course no nurse who respected herself could overlook so preposterous an omission.—“ yEgles” in the Australasian.