AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3730, 5 February 1875, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

The ‘Ballarat Star’ states that “the New North Clunes Company has declared a dividend, which will complete the sum of L2OO per share paid to the shareholders since the first dividend was made in August, 1868. The total gold won amounts to nearly 1.700.000. It has cost the company about L 310.000 to win this splendid result. Nearly the whole of this sum has been spent in Clunes, and much of the amount paid away in dividends has been paid to Clunes shareholders.”

An old lady who has attained the great ago of 127 years is now residing in Blackwood district. A girl in the National Bank at Penola was pouring kerosene out of a can upon the fire, when the oil caught and the can exploded. She was at once enveloped in a sheet of flame, and was actually burned to a cinder. The ‘ Miners’ Advocate,’ New South Wales, writes One of the most shocking cases of brutality of which it is possible to conceive was committed at Plattsburg. The perpetrator is a man named Edwards, who lives in a low bark hut at the rear of the colliery close to the Miami road. Both the man and his wife were addicted to drink, rnd some disturbance took place between them, when, in addition to inflicting frightful injuries on the head and face of the poor woman by which ol.c was rendered nearly insensible, the miscreant cmpii d a kettle of boiling water over her, and then, .w 'l o’i.'h this were not enough, he boiled the keltic a’ second and third time, deliberately peuring the contents of the second on her, and was only prevented completing the operation a third time by the children, who had been spectators of the horrible scene, covering their mother with bags, and huddling her beneath a bunk. In this condition she lay until the second day, her husband having refused admission to any one, eveu his eldest daughter, who is at service, and is fifteen years of age. On the second day the condition of the poor creature was such that ■omeef the neighbors had to be called in, when, in dressing her wounds, a large num’ her of maggots were taken therefrom. She is now in a most precuious state. The effects of holiday celebrations have not yet quite disappeared. There is a kind of hiccough in some of the newspapers which : hows that even a printer is not proof against seasonable allurements. Here is a literal extract from a country journal of-last Saturday, and the length of -which must be overlooked on the ground of its lucidity : We have received from the publisher Mr of Melbourne a copy of the second editor of the Genevative system and its function in health and desoase, by F.B.C.S. formerly honorary Surgeon to the Melbourne Hospital the gentleman has love been known as a skelfull operatury Surgeon in Melbourne and as an another of dispute, the pre»eut time is simpby a rossue of a formerly editor revised and enlarged, it weals is a subject not is of come well known to all adults but but infortunatelv no so well, understood, a pevusal of its pages will be found highly beneficial to those who have any ambition to live a Uf c 0 f b re ih p, shappment to band down to their children to most valuable hchboom that they can leave them good health and good sound wholesome minds for although perhaps the title of the j work is somewhat (inestimable - fa pages are free I from all prurient mutter, and what it professes { to tracbe its pluses before its render in hum j that meet no course a pain to honest mind." °