AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 4229, 15 September 1876, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A man) named Power: was burned to! .. room "alr~the SaiJqr's.Home, •)JPfiiJt t 34.delaide._. , :;, J ; tf± \ A man ,mamed Robert Thurstoni : Melbourne whilo.underi the influence of drink. •'' E. Cullen, §jq, Adelaide working man just dead, has left all his -property j valued at L4OO, to the as'yiupas iot the blind aridWaf. j J^rs.Henderson, the wife pf a well : known coafecbioner in Sandhurst, commiJted Suicide'by taking a quantity of 6il of almonds. - ',. .

Two shearers, named respectively Roberts and Anthony, had a dispute when the former, ' Government of Victoria have at far to public opinion ' as 'to attemptthe experiment of sul*latche3 instead of locks on , the doors of jrailway carriages. The " question"was rafsed in '' the- House "by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, and in reply Mr Jones., said that arrangements , were now being made to introduce ;-o on th|e Victorian railways? inStead -of' having -the passengers locked l :1 "inf.''; ; Ssrie slight alterations would be '.-.. rendered necessary in connection with

platforms and fencing before this, could * be ftbne; but he hoped to see the .new system inaugurated in the course of a very short time. [ Mr Bent's Bill for admitting attorneys from the other Australasian Colo-

;ides on the same footing as attorneys bf -Yicioria has been carried by 31 • ; votes to 23. An. inquiry is being made into the ojnanageinent of'the aboriginal' station at Coranderrk. It is alleged that the have had- access to intoxicating liquors, and have been allowed ThVcelebrated, I)avenport Brothers "' have arrived from America and nave given seances at Melbourne. J >*. Ifc is reported that the curate of the Rev. Father Egan, the Rev. Father Haly, lately stationed at Warigardtta, -■has been shot,, at Marandera, . New South Wales, by the police. He is 'supposed to 'be identical with a person j.aaamed was wanted by the police, and fired on the constables who endeaVored'to arrest him. It is supposed that he must have been, insane for ;some time past. ' ,; "The number of Chinese lottery banks is gradually bn the increase in Melbourne.

.?The exhibition at Brisbane is now ■vittaially closed, but at the request of the public would remain open a few : day's The receipts have amounted to LI,COO. At Echuca an. old man, aged seventythree years, named Edward Bedford, attempted to commitanicide by cutting a vein in his arm. Ha lied in a critical condition. "£. seriotta"charge of dummyism is brought against some member of the Victorian Parliament in a letter to the 'Ballarat Qourier' by a correspondent signing himself " A Boort Selector." "... A shooting ..case has occurred at Gundamine, New South Wales, in which a man named Whilton severely

wounded another named* Smyth, who afterwards severely ■ wounded his assailant. ..•!:■•.,

In the Victorian. Parliament the Government promised a full inquiry an allegation that a woman named Govitt bad died in child-bed at Coranderrk Aboriginal station, unattended by any medical man, the nurse, it was asserte"d, being drunk. | A salesman at the Melbourne Wholesale Meat Market was proceeded ! against, and fined LlO, at the instance ' of the local Board of Health, for ex--1 posing the veal of three calves, which was Wemaciated and impoverished as to i be perfectly unfit .for human consump- ■■- . • '' . .

In' the County Court, Melbourne, Mr Godfrey, solicitor, was sued by Mr John Green, a landowner at Carlton, for L 250 damages for negligence .and .nnskilfulness in the performance of.-, certain professional duties for which ; he was retained by the plaintifß The jWy, after some consideration, found for the plaintiff, damages L 175. "\ James Martin aad-Co., Gawlei*, the largest iron workers inrvSouth Australia, have given their men notice that they must reduce the wages ten per cent., or increase the number of working hours from eight to nine. The men are considering the proposals, which have been rendered necessary by increasing English and foreign competition, and a prospective bad season.