AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 4095, 11 April 1876, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

The practice of selling liquor in brothels, in Melbourne, has of late reached such limits as to demand the attention of the revenue authorities, and Mr Martin Evans, the inspector for the corporation, having obtained the necessary evidence, proceeded against several women in the District Court for selling liquor without a license. Acting on the same principle as is followed by some of the large manufacturing companies at Home, the directors of the Victorian Woollen and Cloth Company have decided to throw open the sale of their goods to the factory operatives and general public. These can now go direct to the store and buy, at first hand, an end of a tweed, a shawl, or a pair of blankets. Eaglehawk, a Victorian borough, must bo in a bad state. The * Leader’ writes :—“ In addition to scarlet fever, scarlatina, typhoid fever, and measles, we are now being visited by an epidemic, which selects that tender spot, the eye, for operation. There is scarcely a family in Sailor’s Gully at the present time but that some of the members are under treatment for soreness of the eyes, which resembles in many respects the sandy blight. The attendance at the State schools has been considerably de■i creased during-the past month, and in looking over the' roll the cause is accredited to sore eyes.” Scarlet fever seems to be making O

fearful ravages amongst children in

. some Of the, country districts in Yicz toria. hj In the district of Maryborough many fatal cases are reported, and children going to bed well are dead in the

morning, The disease has appeared all ' Over Hie district, including Eddington, -Moolort, JSTewstead, Alma, Chinaman’s, Carisbrook, Maryborough proper, and Timor. A few days since the Tulhroop . Shire Council, in their capacity of local , Board of Health, held a meeting, and determined to ask the. Education De- — partment to close ever'’ school in the pfcire for the present.