AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3525, 10 June 1874, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Hr T. L. Bright, the welhknown journalist, died in convulsive fits in the Sandhurst hospital on the 16th inat A Chinese named Ah Lung has been committed for trial at Daylestord for attempting to murder a miner named Oliver. In endeavoring to save hia throat from being cut, Oliver received twelve wounds, one of which enlarged his mouth to the extent of one and a-half inches 2U6.000 children are on the rolls of the Victorian State schools, or nearly one-fourth of the population of the Colony. As only 15,000 have come from private schools, the return shows that over 50,000 children who were neglected before are now receiving the benefits of education. The dinner held at Ballarat, on the IBth, to celebrated the establishment of the Iri hj Club, was a great success. About ninety persons were present, and among them were most of the leading Irishmen on Ballarat of all cret ds and opinions, together with three P otestaut clergymen. The Roman Catholic clergymen were not represented, not feeling themselves at liberty to attend. Messrs Robertson Brothers’ first annual cattle sale at Golac was an immense success realising nearly L 13.000. There was a large attendance of buyers from all the Colonies. Young Durham bull calves were sold up to 260 guineas, and heifers up to 200 guineas, x oung Hereford bulls went at prices ranging up to 250 guineas, and heifers up to 210 guineas. Competition was much brisker for the shorthorns than for the Herefords, The ‘ Ballarat Star’ says “ Our obituary notice recently contained the name of one who, while being entitled to be included in the list of pioneers, bore a somewhat prominent part in the battle of the Eureka ’tockade. We refer to the late Mr Charles Miller, compositor, who for some tim l .! preto his death was a member of the Star companionship. It was he that, at the time of the memorable 4th December du was appointed printer to the Rebel Government, and was the publisher of its proclamations, by virtue of which he was relieved from the usual drill duties,” The following mixture of fact and fancy appears in the ‘Argus’:—A passenger per the Omeo steamer, from IS ew Zealand, named James Martin, was admitted to the Geelong Hospital in a helpless state. He says that whilst working at the erection of an iron bridge over the River Waikato, fifteen miles from Dunedin, a girder fell on him, the re-

suit of which was that both thighs were broken. He was conveyed to the hospital at Oamaru, where he remained till fourteen days since, by which time the bones of one of his thighs had become united, but so imperfectly that he could make no use of it, while the bones of the other limb had, appa rently, never set at all. Hearing of what had been done in the way of cures in the Geelong Hospital he has found his way thither, and now awaits an operation, in the hope that it may prove efficacious.