AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4069, 11 March 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

*T A hoy, aged twelve years, recently drank so much colonial wine in Victoria that he became insensible, and, after bring carried home, died. Efforts are joeing made in Sydney by the N.S.W, Rifle Association to send a team of riflemen to. Philadelphia to represent the Colony in the Great.* international. Bifle Match,-to take place during the Centennial celebration. . .. i.

Biondin has got a rival in Mr L'Estrmige,' who made a most successful dtbut before a Melbourne audience in-the reserve, Madeline street, near the University. Similar arrangements had been made as when M.’ Biondin made W appearance on the St. Kilda rpadi and the . programme was identically, the some. - •

Startling disclosures haying reference, to the treatment of patients in the.Kew Asylum', have been made by a discharged patieijt, ] named* Mrs Scott. .She fully, cotroborate* the charges of cruelty preferied. against!! !the. attendantsi and the laxity of displayed by the medieal ,lh" .stances are given .of the filthy. bf the patients and the drunkenness Indulged in by the attendants. ; * , . , , s - * Captain. Blannin, Hon. secf'etary of - the Victorian. Bifle Association, has received the mail a letter from the hon, secretary'- of the National Bifle Asaociatio'd of - Eujdand, expressing the regret of the Enghshßiffbmeu that the proposal ,to send,.a , team pf Australian riflemen to .Wimbledon t)rii year has falfen through. The hope la expjressbd that the pleasure of meeting has omy berii deferred. ’ . , .! - An investigation is .being made into a revolting charge .adrihstthe Goyemment’ undertaker in Mribourne. . A body* xt is stated, was, placed in ,a coffin much too small for it, and men,had to stand upon the lid to close it, while iron hoops were placed around the boffin to. keep the.lid together.. The,evidence^.of those, present at the time was taken, and it is expected that , the' matter will be placed before the Chief Secretary. . ■ .\ The standing, order, now known to the world as the : iron hand ’’ was used for the first time in the Victorian Parliament by ia member of the Opposition.. During the consideration of the Supply Bill, there was a disposition shown to get. up a disensriou; when Mr A- T. Clark moved “ that the motion be now put.” This was done to the exclusion of any further debate, and the Government measure was passed quicker than it otherwise would have been. It is curious that the minority should first use an order to the passing* of which, they had given such strenuous opposition. Within the last few months the quartz mines at Sandhurst have again come prominently into notice through the increasing yields of the valuable mines there, and prices of shares in many of the mines have greatly increased since the commencement of this year. The yield of gold at Sandhurst during last month, as shown by the official returns, amounted to 22,1500z. 14dwt. Bgr., which is regarded as being a very good commencement for the year, January being (in consequence -of holidays, &o.) a broken month. The yield of gold in the previous January was L8,2970z. 9dwt. 9gr., which shows that the returns this January are considerably more. The ‘ Hobart Town Mercury * states that at Bellerive, on the 15th ult.,'twb children, evidently under the age of twelve years, were brought in a cart to the to be taken to'Hobart Town in the steamer. Their hands were tied together (handcuffs sufficiently small for their wauls not being Available, we presume), and they were seated on thb quarried stones on the wharf.... Id .this ignominious and cruel posltidn, dresfusd in brown holland pinafores, and looking the picture of misery, they became a spectacle for the children of the neighborhood t6 gaze upon, and as much objects of horror a? if they were a pair of Criminals of the deepest dye, and were on the road to tfle gallows.* Upon enquiry it transpired that they were bemg escorted to Hobart Town’Gaol by one of the Sorell police, and that they had received a sentence for eating apples without the consent of the owner! The hands of the children were kept tied while crossing over in the steamer, a breach of the regulations i for which the constable ought to be severely punished. ;

The ‘ Forbes Times 5 reports'acircumstance of a most painfulcharacter that occurred at Goolagong recently. A youthful mother; only married twelve month? ago; had 10ft her first and only little one in bed Whilst she. went to fetch a bucket of water, in the absence of her husband, who-was away reaping. As she neared the house on her return she heard her child crying, and, dropping the bucket, ran to where she had left her oab'e. On entering the room she was horrified at seeing a large snrfke on the bed, and, almost bereft of her senses, she ran out to give the alarm. Some members of a picnic party (not far distant noticed the poor woman run and fall, and run and fall again l . As this wasrepeatedseyeral times they at once hastened to her, and she then almost hysterically told the ! cause of her fear. A farmer named O’Donnel rushed to the house, and there he Saw thebaby with the deadly fangs of the snake fastened on to it. He picked up the’ child and held it high over head, shaking it violently, but still the reptile would not let go its hold, and it.was only after the snake was killed that it could betaken off. The father was'at once sent for, and although be Hastened home as quickly a? possible, it was only te find his little one a corpse and hisi wife in an agony of grief. The shake was over six feet in length, and whs of a leaded color. ,

A shocking fatal accident kappened. oa February-22, at Messrs Halstead and Ketr’a timber yard, Elisabeth street, Melbourne. At about twelve o’clock the, engineer in charge of the machinery, Percivw Scott, stopped the engine in the turning room, in order to adjust some packing in the bearer of the main shafting, and af£er having done what he wanted ordered the machinery to be set going again. He was stooping down then, looking at the effept, and was about to get up when. a boy attending him cautioned him that fly-wheel behind him waste* volving. Scott, either throughforgetfulness or not understanding the warning, suddenly stpod upright,’ and was immediately struck on the one of the of part qt of, hiseyes.waa idtHovas to the Mdbotuhe Hbapital but pronounced lueto-be extinct- 1 : 'ShehSor* fifty jSfo old, leftt widow udittafy

The proverb "marry in haste, Ac.,’* wai iUustrateddh Melbourne by alad daufiid M< Edward Mattingley, -dtef aiyas CUiTOewft to the District Pohce&mritiwMa-*rife,%ybtujg woman, for ’ vantr in his mother’s young people -Went fry* fe- fonunMßf auctioneer, and parson ofsobneaeot fh OcHSogwood, to get married, Hcdedfinfed-te'lßirry them there in the youth seemed under the ffidtienee tifhrmk, but inthe evenihir he t«aried ! th6m.V‘ Hfyo Woman had w child aftetWfiAlsV-' Tbeyobth hadno means,beingmanly imartMwclisrk without wagds, aini w&skeptbyhiS-mother. The old lady has beeu the wife,, and Offered tbcoUtmne thhTtiflthe lad was earning for himself. The base* Was dismissed. : w| ■ A>swa>rerthtifc J '" v,B '.‘ ** A case recently heard at Wfi&CthtfTOOiee [Courts (says the ‘ Sydney' MailT WaS almost as full of incident as come lhb T volumed novels of a appeared that atHammefsfldtii, iSeS tjou. don, in the year 1870, man, whom we will call Mr Saitoh, plightedeafth toother thCir tr<fth, aadliVed vefyhappily tCgetheris hnsfciMand%ife until the month ofMkroh, 1875* Haitch left England by a deed Of gift, household *fumitffite and other feffects'fiftho houSa in Wbich sbh liVed, of the is said,-of nearly LBOO ; for sdme : timethey eonespondMt by eve# maa; he* letters being couched in most' butin process* of ! ttm« and’ cooler still, until' at ■to write at all. Mrs Haitch,-fiC to make both eUds meet, tosk In 1 among others a young Aiistlilihn We may caff-, Mr ? • for the Mni Haith’s correspoudfcnceitith'* h&ifasband, of '-Which Mr HaitCh’ : Wj& r> h'p6mral in June, 1874, by; a letter father. As sponaspossihle of this is. 1885, Mr HSitch llft ! '€Maak.Bf 'LMm, and on arrival there ascertained ‘toSFhia wile - and Mr :'See kad'leftnflngttHa for Sydney as man aud wife, taking.with them his (Mri’ HaitcVs) two 'dnldreii and the household goods. Anxious to rOtitfl^rtiis anJaridved herein' Dec*. 30. business mani there Watf tih feoveringMswhereabouts. ; Mr'Ht|behßßtat before a justicejand, on oath, See with-having stolen a quantity 1 efdftjhschold furmture,t)f-the vSloe OfLIOO andtto.Wards, of which he (Mr See) w*s tWfhthc use and enjoyment. Jhe information ‘ffisclosed neither: tho titue WhM Uor the p'ace . where 1 the aUeged stealiag took ■’’ The; the case caffie oft lor hearing hi each side -attended by gentleffien learnediu the law. Mr Hritch lwbailed his whS--that-he fotmd his wife Uriftg Whh as his wife, and that the* faridttredn'tiia house’ was that, or a portiohofthaVttori chased by him and leftln thoohargeTdf btra Haitah,dnEngiaud, and wasittill hirptoperty. The attorney on the' othW ‘«ffie commenced' his. ■ cross-examination of Mr Haitch, by asking where the aliegsdoffenco , was committed—a which wita‘-ob-jected to as improper to be put tothe witness -as one involving a question of lawias to the jurisdiction of the justice, whichthe witness ought not to be -oedlsd-Upwi to : answer. The sitting justices, however, saw the importance Of the qucstictiit.and, i after duly . considering it in- the iight of' itiile '-evidence, .decided that if- the toy) was not only conceived but consummktedin England, «nd that consequently haring no jurisdiction in .the matter, had discharge the defeddant from custody. dknd so, at present, the affair stands. v. . -<■