AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3658, 12 November 1874, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Tr-c correspondence regarding .Sir James Martin’s ocni inds to lie eting-Governm- of New South Males during the absence from the Colony of Sir Hercules Robb son snows that the Home Government did not wish iq except an emergency arose. George Dawson, a well-c 7 unnoted bushman at Adelaide, made a bet th.t ho would be dead in twenty-four hours, and lie die;! in twelve lioiiiP, from bronchitis. 'i he ‘ Maryborough Standard ’ report-’. Dial “a poor woman residing near Kirk's Hotel, Carisbrook, was found early on "Wednesday morning to 1-c in labor without any attendance whatever. Her husband, being employed at Rod boro ugh, visits homo as often ’as he can, hut was away at this lime. A chemist visited the woman about five o’clock in the morning, but found the ca ; c beyond Irs a’oi ity to deal with. He c mmnnioated the particulars to a gentleman, staling that the woman was out of her mind, tearing lioivaT to pieces. j)r Howell visited the place and found everything in a most deplorable condition. The child lay tlrcrc dead, with its arms cut off. but how it was done is not yet known.'’ The woman has since made a deposition in wl ich she stales tha 1 she cut the child’s a-ms off, owing to the intense agony she suffered wldle it was being born.

At Port Cygnet, Tasmania, a youth who shot his brother, on the lad refusing to go and fetch tome cows up for him. lias been fully committed for trial for wilful murder,

ha youii" man Eercival. who last mar receive 1 the very welcome intelligence that, he had Ivcome heir to a very large estate and would probably eventually succeed to the Earldom of Fgrnor.t;, was p, suburban a rent to the ‘ Age.’ At llio return ball to the Mayor of Mel bourne tboro was m ret supper. The supper-rot-m was thrown open at half-past ten o clock, and pcor le sat down when they liked, and when the r oiu a'cmcuts. nermittod.

t-ignora Coy did a handsome thin? cl nring tl>c visit cf the Italian Cpera Con: puny to Adelaide. At her benefit she bad ilia biggest attendincft ever seen within the wal's of tbo -.heatvo. J!cr fiienns presented her wit-li a hamlsc mo diamond bracelet, and .she handed from the proceeds of the benefit a sum of l-7o to the !oca' boa ratal.

The Ballarat papers recently r.-ported that a poor man had obtained over worlh of gold in Ballarat Fas'-, tho result of one day’?, wok. How lie obtained {.ho tc. nov may be ga;nnl from tl<e following m>.Ti>ami. which appears in fho ‘ BallaraKV-uric • “Janus Dominion. a tHbuter in the Quc'ii’s Company, Ballarat Fast, was arrest'd! on a charge of stealing 2.v)nz gold, the pr.-porty of the said comp my. It is alleg'd that jut a fortnight ago the accused took a large quantity of gold to Mr Marks, got it smelted down, and sold it for L 079. He then took a trip to Melbourne, boim: a volunteer, to witness Hie rifle contest, and returned to his work at the claim, where be was arrested by a detective, Ids mates having laid the information agains’ him that he had stolen the gold from He claim. It appears that their suspicions had been aroused by a fact that had come fo their knowledge while the accuse 1 \v;vi in Melbourne, namely, that ho had sold small parcels of gold previously, for his pessesshn of which they could not account. The tiihute party consists of live only, rnd they have been working for many \ve< k-s past vith very poor results. The gold in the hJuecn claim has keen patchy, and the accused was working ;dor.c in n jun pun fn the night prior to Ir’s sale of gold to Mr Marks in the morning. ft app vi s that Goodman made no secret of in's sale of the gold, hut when ho was arrested he informed the manager and Detective llvlaul that he had a claim of his own at wide’-: he worked! overtime, and it was teem lie got Hie gold He offered to show tl e del;dive whs i elite I claim was situated, and t ; ok him and Mr j Manners some distance along the Bunmyong | road, until Hyland, ir.f umcd him find he was in custody, he declined to go any further, saying that he was not g >ing to di-c’ose the whereabouts of his claim so that it might he jumped while he was in the lock-up.”' Judged by the light of recs nt evtnts, the following extract from the Sydney ‘ pinning News ’ of Cctoher 28 wears the air of charm--1 ing simplicity With a roving spirit,

natural to artistes, Signor Giorza has left Melbourne with the intention of proceeding to Pm ope, via Sydney and "-an Francisco. So cord ml a woleom ■ bag how< ver, nvt him here, wiTi a pressing in vita; ion to ro-na'n in Sidney, that the talented musician has de : ermine 1 to make this city his hua.o for 3’ine tin e ”