AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4031, 27 January 1876, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

‘ 'deceived in Melbourne from ludia report the mairiage of Miss lfl2z : e Carandini to a gentleman ih- the Civil Service th«.»e, and that Miss Pannie marries shortly. Mr WUlianl Collina, spheitor, well-known in cricketirg circles,, and the secretary •of the Tasmanian-Turf Club', has'cbmmitted suio.de 1 by taking a dose of strychnine at his own office. The event has caused much sensation in Hobart Town; ‘' ! - 1 : •* -'A® elderly man pf rrspectible appearance/ immed' Patr. ck b yah', who r is worth direr ten ttonsand; pduhds, has beeh sent to gaol at Melbourne for three'months for indecent hehaviow.before some‘little girls. ot ttie-, success of Tasmania’s gredt wepenment; ui -'piaoato ial acclimatisation ik placed beyond all possible doubt by the hrte -repeatea catches of salmon. -We ■ have now full youngsaluion havin'.- -been caught within U e week, independently, pf t]ho.ja>ge hams which are reiipited lo have been piivat ly made, andwhicb have been quietly disposed of. Neariy all these 136 fish were younsr female salmon, m -the smolt stage, and could not be moie than fourteen to sixteen .months old Ihey are hj >w making 1 their first retiith to their a !r l X e , r i vß ri no t- l the. ,pu pose of spawning, aa alt hough, all the fisJi examined had roe in them, yet tt' wbuld not be at maturity for another season. Ihe Tasmanian Government have btenant the salmon Art into operation, but the Hobart Town paipe>s utge that 'hatis 1 thdt the only safe course is to piohibit fishing m the Derwent and other xiveis ipr at least another season.: The platfoim of the new Victorian,Pol-tical Associataon, Which is to he exiled the National Beform L -agae: is: I(l;) P>efo mof the constitu-?9“;-whorebv any m- asure twice pass-d by the Legislative Assembly and twice rejected by the Legi latiVe Coun il shall be finally settled^"so far as Parliament is concerned, by an 'appeal to the.deotos by means of a plebiscite. “• Electoral reform on the basis of population. 3. A iax on the natural value of all land over Moniesi.,of first-class land, valu-d at L 4 per acre j 000 ac.es of second-class land, v.lued-at Lo piT-aore; 1,250 acres of third-class land, valued at L2 per acre; and 2,500 acres of: fouctu-c ass land, at LI per acre, held in fee simple by any one or more in-Uvidual«. 4. iuc maintenance and extension of tlie p esent fiscal .no icy of the country, and the abolition of all du'ies' the necessaries of life that are not imposed for protective purposes. , The* susceptibility of the youthful female W*- .-shpwn-m the-case of Jane 1 Boise and Caro.ijle Vmin?, aged seventeen and eiAteen ' Their stbry, as related i «?■» i ® a “ fivemng Boat,’ is as follows; Boise,. wnO; has befeh in ; the service of Mr ] Smart, a bakf*r, and,Yinme. who has-been employed at me (house of Mr Pestor,' in Sturt stieet, left their pi cesnext night, and went in company ’to see Blondin. There' they met a young: girl named .Harriet Reid, who tt-ld them that, her mistress had warned hj r against* their society, a* they'. were going completely to ’ the bad—keeping compdny * youn? men to- a- tote and ’rfo forth. Tms preyed on'the girls’* aiimda and tney left in tears, and— being observed by some,young men, they were followed. The young lasses then wended their way to the Lake, and there determined to .bid farewell to this wicked world of sorrow, so hand in hand they plunged -in 'off Yiiqfw Point. Jhe young men \yho, had followed, suspented something, and were iioai;, at baud to pull them out after them And a, cab being procured they were tdken to the Hospi'al, wnere they remained aU night brought to the city lock-up that after-touching the;water she felt sorry, the chill waters of Wendbhree having quenched dll sentiment in ker. Her companinn, however, is a wish that she had’been left to die. '