AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4234, 21 September 1876, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

..An officer of the Mining Depart"

aient Jtife keenl suspended for sending lit Brough Smyth m. official letter with a caricature of that gentleman

sketched at the top. The sentence of death passed on Ktegerald, alias Yellow Jemmie, foi* rapes has been commuted to fifteen jrwus'imprisonment. Orer L6joo-was found in the house of a supposed destitute woman, who died in Sydney on the Brd September. - The French Consul has expressed an «Jnion that in tbe event of the French Government granting pardons to Com■mnisfe, it will only be to depor&s and' and that they will hare t&e right; to return to fy&ee\,. .;' 'j '} . • meetifig has bfeen held at Brisbane at the town hall"to discuss : tif opening, the Exhibition *&illding there on Sunday* It was organised, women and chilen heing J presentV Bishop Hale moved a condemnatory resolution. An amendment 'was moved approving of I Jihe the original resolution was carried by about 1,400. •* -i Two cakes of gold were, received on the* 31st August from Nine-Mile Springs, Tasmania, weighing 1,7240z., from 900 tons of stone, and worth L7,t)50. ; v Fifty tons of stone from a trial crushing from the. City of Launeesfcon mine; at Nine-Mile Springs ahowed 110o«. of gold. This has great excitement. v ' Tn the South Australian Assembly, amotion iniavor of property taxation has :been given. a possibility of Mr «f. L. well-known comedian, cornOut to these Colonies. X'A r.fony at Sydney was backed to :twa fifty.: mftes in five hours, but was itepped-by the owner at forty-two miles.

A girl twelve years of age has been j fned and - imprisoned at Sydney for of four kids. A controversy has been started with reference to. the advisability ofintroliftefiig' sparrows into the Colony of Kftw South Wales. -* !ltr Grant intends to close the Tastianian Main Line of railway at the end of September if the Government VOl- not pay interest. ' A petition signed by 8,000 persons, has been 'presented to the Queensland |AgißlaWre, in favor of eight hours Obeing declared a Statute day's laboiv ■, The eoroner's jury has returned a - •vwdiefc of wilful murder against Ellen flPrancis, who' took the life of a man named Robert Davis at Emerald Hill stabbing him with a knife. * 'The ETew' South Wales Government has resolved to make a considerable reduction in the railway rates, and a i vfiry o large ? reduction.,in the rate of carriage of wool. - A fire at the Australian Lithofrao~teur* Company's works, Victoria, destroyed property worth L 2,000, and at a 'fire at Messrs Cuming's chemical .works, damage was done, to the extent *ffclO,ooo. • , A man named Edward Robinson, painter at the "railways works, while orossing the line at Redfern terminus, New, South Wales, was caught between the buffers, 1 and crushed to death.

The Australian Jockey Club has just eoiiipie'ted some extensive improvements on the Ttandwick Racecourse, in the shape of. a new grand-stand, "win"'all necessary appurtenances, at a cost of £12,000. The Gaelic Society of .New South WaJeß lately Held its anniversary. The; strains of tha national bagpipe, it is jsiaid, enlivened the proceedings, and a nttmber of addresses were delivered in tb% Gaelic language. The 'Bairnsdale Coutier' mentions that one of Cobb's coach-drivers, generally known as " Old Tom White," who is employed on the Bairnsdale and Sale line, has just received information of a legacy being left him of L 40,000. A mysterious occurrence is reported from Newcastle, N.S.W. At 2 o'clock one morning ories for help were heard in the harbor, and subsequently a large retriever dog was seen swimming round the locality, refusing to leave. A lad, ; fifteen years of age, who had threatened to commit suicide, was found hanging by the neck from a roller towel aV the back of his employer's office in Melbourne. At the! Hospital he was resuscitated—an: operation that took some hours. In< Viotoria there are now open for traffic 618 miles of railway, and 353 miles are in course of construction. Applications have been made for the construction of no less than 2,005 miles, making altogether 2,976 miles. The amount expended on railways up to the present tim'6 is about LI 3,000,000, and the new loan provided for the expenditure of L 1,300,000 more. A Kanaka, *bo was engaged on a •station at the Terricks, Queensland, ..recently murdered the overseer, without apparently receiving the least provocation. While the men were engaged one morning in drafting sheep, he suddenly stabbed the overseer in the abdomen. He will shortly be tried for the murder. James Kennedy, aged, 22, a native f of Oastlemaine, met with a singular f fatal accident while dam-sinking at •G'Shannassy's station, Moira, recently. earth fell, throwing the deceased against a pick pointed upwards, which was driren trough his body. He was ffcnioved to fteidba'nk for "conveyance to.the Deniliquin Hospital, but died $u ihe platform. i &<. (.■:. ■.■■.:- •£>.;- • «*;! Tiii-j...'o' r> - ■./.-..