AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3510, 23 May 1874, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

The Bank of Australia at Sydney recently Cashed a forged, cheque for LSOO. 1 V Williams, the remaining Newport Chartist, died at Launceston on May 9. aged 79 years. . . ° At Inglewood, police-constable BoucHcr.was lined L 5 for allowing a prisoner to escape from ms custody. ■ ./South’ AustrrtHalias 113 persons in different parts of England acting as agents for selecting immigrants. - ® _The message wired to the ‘Argus ’ from Warrnambool, on Ayril 16, after; the conolusion o er/v. lr daßles M'Ctuloch’s speech, contained ■ B*soo words, and was the lopgest eVer tele--Australasia. . > , J .' ° % o y 8 ; - bne aged L% and two. aged 12— ; S 2 . r ? B ® a J'® ll p. od J?,.W®.b: Jays’, imprisonment on Til 1 f° r . bemg found in the streets of in a filthy state of- intox!cp,tlop. " bttle incident is characteristic of thefeehng of- loyally tp %. imperial copworking cesses, in Al^Str-. At a meeting <jfj Wallaroc minera Wpng late strike, the proceedings tarmL x a " fellows j Mr John Peters proposed, we get a flag for our use.’ Mr Laffin, of the Wombat hotel, ‘ I'll lend you half a dozen.’ Mr Buteon, ‘Have a Union Jack, sir. We (Cheerf) 6 un<ler an y other banner.’ An instance of determined courage in arresta burglar was shown on April 26, by Master Joseph Adamson, the son of the American Consul at Melbourne. Early on that morning Master Adamson found a person in his room, and immediately seized him. After a sharp struggle, Adamson was thrown down the stairs to the first landing, and on seizing the man again was bulled to thg bottom. He, however, .Mmin Taught the hqrglar, ‘ and this time sucaeeded in holding him till his father eame to us-assistance. Certain parties interested in the fate of Gardiner, prince of bushrangers, recently petitioned the JN.b. Woles Government for his release, on the grouncls that not only had his conduct in the gael been irreproachable, but distinctly good, for he assisted to disclose, and prevent an - anc * himself useful in furthenng the industrial employment of the prisoners. The Government have agreed to release him with less than one-third of his sentence completed, but the condition of exile is attached to the pardon. Considerable indignation has been expressed by the Sydney people in consequence. " 1 A Mr W. Begg writes to the ‘ Argus’ expcAmg the Statements in reference to the New Zealand immigration scheme made by that selfconstituted friend of the working classes—J. M‘Pherson. • Mr Begg says; “New Zealand is a country in which no man who is willing to work need look long for employment, and I must confess I am led to suspect that Mr M‘PhersonJs one of those who will not work; and who, being, perhaps, rather with his glib tPJbjW®’ has persuaded a digcQi}ten|ed to J3 1 ?! pfiJeg ‘tMt ne may gairihn'uhenyowripifyi though mmrthe' 'shallowness' of arguments it is to be hoped that his mission will prove as unsuccessful as it is positively libellous on the Colony,” ■ rathe 1 r im P°rtant action, as heaping upon! aw, x. waa tried at Sydney on' the .Sydney Mopning.Herald,’ It WJuf^Tnnlr^* 11168 aR d rt jury of foUl’.; v \ Insurance, Company. The plaintiff was the insurer of a Crishßa > a »d her cargo and ’ been gaged ln the beche-lc-iaer trade at Torres Straits but on the 16th . January, 1873, was seized by H.M.S. Basilrik tbe Act of 1872, in A Na m Ve i labor - er8 x n , ofc P arb of the crew. Abbel was filed against her in the Yico-Ad-puralty Court at Brisbane, and upon the suit

being heard she was condemned. The owners now sought to recover the amount named, upon the ground that the master had been guilty of baijatry in wilfully committing a breach of the .Kidnapping Act, and thereby rendering his vessel liable to forfeiture, the owners not having given him any instructions to carry native laborers. The jury found for the plaintiff, damages L 3,720.” . ’ Children’s power of endurance are very At Wangaratta a little child of some “three years old was lost in the bush about three nines from that town, for two days and two nights, and when found by a search party was not .only in excellent health, but was as cheerful as if the matter Had been one of everyday occurrence. J

The ‘Geelong Advertiser’ remarks that in a land where beef and mutton are, plentiful such two famishing specimens of humanity as John Ke Paterson.and his son, a boy of eleven years, furnished in the witness-box at the local police court very lately, would scarcely be credible out to those who beheld them. The father seemed a gaunt man attenuated by slow stafvation • ms clothes, worn .: threadbare, were scarcely sufficient to hide his naked skin from the onlookers. He and. his son were charged with stealing four sheep froni a run at Little .River; and the reluctant manner in-which the prosecution was pressed, the fact that the overseer of the station, actually apologised for the offence, told nnmistakeably in the prisoners’ u j°f’' ® v idence showed that the family had been leading a life of misery and privation. 1 hey. were woodcutters in the You Yangs forest., A day or two Before the mother was confined. _Their only bed clothing.was a single blanket; their wearing apparel consisted of worn-out A jprl of'riine'ye'artf was rtihmng about with, a.. woolsack tied, round her waist, the orily particle of dress she possessed. JJunng the week the family subsisted bn some bread and water. Such was the miserable tale told. Before ■ the father left the. court more than one half-crown had been handed to him by some of the audience. . One ©f those rare events, in new countries, a golden wedding, was celebrated at Stawell on Sunday, April 26. Mr and Mrs Nayler, who are well known in many parts of the Colony as leadmg Bpjntists {says the' ‘ Pleasant Creek Advertiser) have been married fifty years, and to do honor to this venerable couple the Lyceum in that town was crowded. ■’ A large number of Welsh miners are leaving Ballarat (Victoria) for Wales, to resume work m the coal and iron mines, the wages they receive there being better than they can earn in Victoria;. : ■ •

. £ Bingulav accident is reported by *tbe Cleveland Bay Express’:'»A passenger on board the. Boomerang dislocated his, shoulder when in the act .of sneezing, .Several attempts were made to put if back again without success, when he was ' .brought ashore, and, in the absence of amedicalman, Mr Clayton, chemist, reduced the dislocation.” ’ At the Ballarat Police-court, on May 11, a Jew named Bukh was charged -with working himself and keeping persons in his employment at work on Sunday, against the form of the statute therein made and provided, and duly set forft to an Act/passed in the reign of his late Majesty King Charles 11., a monarch as noted for his eminent piety as for' his domestic virtues. ■ It appears that this diligent Hebrew cannot we why he should.be- 1 compelled to remain idle on a day which to him is no more than any other ordinary day, and consequently he Ms hitherto been in the habit of prosecuting his.qsual aviations il* defiance 6f the prbMbition, coritaineclj in fhe law'iqst cited. Some of his neighbors, however, felt scandalised at the conduct <*f ths3 child of .Israel, and Sergeant Larner was requested to give hirii a taste of Ghnstian chanty and freedom from prejudice, in respect ofan holiday, or of the new moon, ™ e Sabbath days,” concerning all of “which the great apostle of the Gentiles told the converts at Colosse that no man should judge 9 f 0O « rs0 . worthy sergeant had a very plain duty to do, and he did it. It Was not for bun to examine into the theological Dealings of the case, or to read his informants a lesson on the great advantages likely to accrue to society if the rule which, bids every man mind his own business more generally observed. He had simply to carry out the law as it stands, and accordingly he instructed >one of Wa suborduiates to take action in the matter, and the result was that Mr Bukh was fined five shillings.