AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3996, 15 December 1875, Page 2 (Supplement)

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

While a case was being proceeded with before Mr Justice Barry, some dating member of the light-fingered fraternity entered the dressingroom beiiind the County Court unobserved, anil succeeded in carrying away his Honor's coat and waietcoat, which were hanging on a peg on the wall. On the sth inst. the Koman Catholic Church at 1 >ubbo was robbed of silver vessels u*ed in the Eucharist. Another case of death by blood-poisoning is reported to have occurred near Dalby, Queensland.

Unsatisfactory disclosures have made with respect to the passenger traffic by the Torres Strait mail steamers. The body of the young man Tait, drowned lately in the Yarra, has been recovered by exploding torpedoes. A flash of lightning struck a wool shed near Glen Inues, N.S.W., knocking the shears out of the sheart rs' hands. While a daughter of Mr Fox, public school teacher at Fishery Creek, was lifting one of 'he children sh.e teil, a crochet needle in her apron was driven into her stomach, but after a sever e operation it was removed. At a sale held in Victoria 8,925 sheen were sold for LI 2,000. The Singapore (s.) has taken from Cooktown 183 Ckinese passengers for Hong Kong with gold to the Talue of between 1-12,500 and Llli.OOO. Owing to the buzz of conversation in the N.S.W. Parliament, not one answer in a dozen

is distinctly heard in the reporters' gallery, and it is not improbable that this* part of the proceedings will have to be omitted from the reports. The Melbourne public analyst, Mr Sydney Gibbons, at a recent meeting of the Microscopical Society of Victoiia, brought forward a case of milk adulteration, in which there were traces of the addition of brain matter. He said that sophistication of this character had been frequently referred to, but authenticated instances were but rarely met with. A singular fatal accident occurred at Warrnambool to a man named Rynu. He was earmarking some pigs when the knife he was using Bhpped, causing what he thought a trivial cut on the inside of the right thigh-so slight indeed, that he went on with his work till the flow of blood alarmed him, and he started in search of a doctor, before proceeding many yards however, he dropped down and shortly after expired—an artery having been severed. A painful sensation was created in Melbourne on the 2Gth ult. by the publication of an account of the sufferings of a number of newly-arrived German immigrants, who had formed a little settlement in the interior—at i\li»jor Plains, Benalla. The writer described their < oudition as most deplorable. " A strange people m a strange lan. ; none out of their own little circle ade to speak to them so as to understand their want*. Already there are nine of them dead, seven in so emaciated a state 1 do not think it hardly uossible for them to recover. Five of the remainder are lame m fact, out of the sixty-four there are now only about five who are strong enough to work " bteps were, of con sr s at once taken to relieve their immediate wants. From information subsequently received, it appenrs tint their miserable condition was clue in sorno measure to their own fault, they, being a strange peculiar people, putting their wtiolo be.iief'in ! the counsels of an old woman in their midst I who tells thvni that they have no ru-ht Io ! exert tlieuiselv.s, as th<s Lord will provide for I them.