AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4037, 3 February 1876, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

A case of refusal to perform burial r.tes on tbe part of a Homan. Cathol'c piiest, because the deceased permitted her children to attend a.State school, has occurred at Kangaroo Flat According to the ‘Bendigo. Advertiser,’ the was invited to perform the funeral rites. The coffin was duly borne to the grave, but there-w sno app arance of the priest. Some delay to?k plac ' but sti lno priest appeared ; and-it was broadly stated that the reason why he would, not perform the rites was that deceased's, children were sent to the State school, she being too poor to pay to send them to the Roman Catholic school. Tin Roman Catholic -schoolrbaster at. Kangaroo Flat was accused of, instigating the priest to keep away for tße reasoh abbve stated. The corpse was (hopped into the grave, and covered up without any cefemony. Scarlet fevfer Is spreading very fapidlv in the curlymg districts of Victoria. : There is now no 'room lef r to doubt that the salmon haS .been thoroughly' acclimatised in Tasmanian waters. - Mr John Woodcock (Jrayes, the bon/ Secretary of the Tasmanian Acclimatisation Society, who has hitherto ridiculed the attempt, makes open confession of; his mistake. .In a letter to the ‘ Mercury ’ he says:—“ Now that the long unsettled question as to the success or otherwise of im salmon experiment is fur overset at rest by a grand Victory, itis but proper t^t. these amongst us who have held adverse opinions should at once come forward and confess. An avowal on my part to this effect, I know, is, immaterial; but since, by your patience the columns of, the ‘ Mercury ’.have been open to my pen on this subject tor the last seven years, I ask for .yet another space wherein to acknowledge my conviction that the English salmOn in our Derwent is simply a great fact I hav©;*wrthin-thiß last fortnight seen and handled the sxno.t ef .the Salmo solar, as taken withm a nffe shot of our city by the fishermen’s seme, and know that some dozens went to the breakfast tables of those of our visitors and other#.” ■ ; ‘