AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3557, 17 July 1874, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Some rather startling news comes from the Northern Territory, it is stated that a party of quartz reefers have obtained abont L 3,000 worth of gold from ten toas of quartz. Some smart work in telegraphy is reported by the ‘ South Australian Register.’ It appears that special arrangements were made in the Adelaide and the Melbourne Telegraph Departments for transmitting the result of the race for the Adelaide Cup. The message containing sthe news was handed in at the Adelaide office at 2h. 24m. p. m,, and transmitted thence at 2h. 25tu. ft was received in Melbourne at 2h. 51m., Melbourne time, and delivered at 2h. 52m., having merely occupied one minute in transmission, and one minute in delivery, entering, &c. -I he estate of the late Thomas Graham, brewer, of Last Cpllingwood, about which there was some litigation between two persons in England claiming to be his sons, and a person in Victoria claiming to be hi;« widow, has realised upwards of L 30.000. Before the eatate was taken from the management of the defendant, she)had acquired some of the property, but the plaintiffs compromised with her for L 1,950. The Court made au order for the distribution \of the money among the plaintiffs. A horrible story comes from Ballarat, On May 26 the district coroner was called upon to investigate a case of sudden death at Warrenheip. A widow named Mary M‘Gowan lived on a farm with her three children and her brother Daniel Cahill, aged twenty-nine years. The husband of Mrs McGowan has been dead some years. She died on the 20th, and a post mortem examination showed that she had given birth to an infant, whose body could not be foupd. At the inquest Daniel Cahill was committed, on the coroner’s warrant, for concealing the birth ot the child. Horrid rumors are afloat as to the probable father of the child. The remains have not yet been discovered. Cahiil is said to have been the only person in the house with his sister when she was confined.

The Sydney people are evidently getting alarmed through the garroting that has recently taken place in the public streets there. The ‘Herald’ says that “the last neat thing in the way of collars is a steel collar with spikes, a sample of which, made for his own use, has been sent us by Mr John Russel. If it is comfortable to the wearer, it would certainly be a caution to the night prowlers who are too fond of puting their arms round gentlemen’s necks. If these collars become gentlemen’s wear, garroters will look twice before hugging once,”

An example of how a man may lose bis self respect; was heard at the City Court, Melbourne, when a *nan named Thos, H. H. Get-gbegan was charged with deserting his wife. The prisoner was stated to have been at one time a captain in a cavalry regiment, and to have lately received a sum of L4OO from Home, the whole of which he had spent in a very brief space of time. At the request of his wife he was discharged, as it was said his friends at Home had Keen telegraphed to, and they had provided passages for the whole family to the old country, A Riverina correspondent writes with reference to the system adopted to defeat the purpp.se of'the Lafitf Act by gome persons in that district :—“A. few days ago could be seen ©n the run of a well-known squatter four men carrying four dummy huts, and seemingly with very little labor to them ! The latest move is to take away thp hut when the surveyor comes, and he reports non-residence. The allotment is then forfeited and put up to auction, bought of course by the pastoral tenant, costing him LI upset and 5s per acre deposit—2sa in all.” .