AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 4247, 6 October 1876, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Some disorderly scenes still take place in " ' Victorian Parliament. Major Smith, on frying called to order by Mr Langton, exclaimed, “Will that chattering magpie I > atopt” On the same evening Mr Walker said to Mr Munro, in reply to a strong I statement*- “If you make the same re- - stork outside, I will tell you you are a gar;” The Honorable J. G. Francis was to leave ■ London for Victoria during September. One of the Chinese gambling houses ha& Been robbed by four Chinamen, who cut the '.'/-gas pipes, and in the darkness caught hold af the money on the table. - ’ A Queensland farmer has been fined LIOO, •r 81* months’ imprisonment, for having an illicit still. .'The schooner Peerless, which arrived at the Clarence River, N.S.W., reports passing t five wrecks on the way up. « A periodical, after the style of the ‘Saturday’Review,’ will probably be started in Sydney shortly. ■Arn old woman named Tape, about sixty years of age, was burnt to death at Sydney while smoking in her bed. The trial of Captain Cameron for endangering the immigrant ship Lightning commenced on September 21. At Adelaide a verdict of manslaughter has been returned against John Harmann, charged with murdering his mother-in-law. A telegram has been received from Italy, dated -16 th September, announcing the .engagement of an opera company of sixteen artists. Eight of the most influential wine-growers in South Australia have formed themselves into a company. Mrs Scott-Siddons, the actress, competes in rifle matches, and is a crack shot with the Martini-Henri rifle. The N.S.W. , Executive Commissioner, writing from Philadelphia, expresses confidence in New South Wales carrying off some of the awards at the Exhibition. At Melbourne a boy twelve years old, darned Smith, has been committed for trial for having placed obstructions on the railway. ■ The Governor has presented a gold watch to each of the boat’s crew of the I andenong, for their bravery in saving lives at 'the wreck, . Mr Thomas Campbell, at one time harbormaster at Williamstown, and who has latterly followed the avocation of farming, committed suicide in the Kew Lunatic Asylum. At Melbourne, Emma Forrester, a monthly nurse, has been acquitted on a charge of having procured abortion in the case of a barmaid named Derry, who died. 1 In the Melbourne divorce case, Dr Fisher V. Mrs Fisher and Egan, the jury found the respondent guilty of adultry with Egan, the groom, the co-respondent. They also found the petitioner not guilty, as alleged in the defence. The decision in the inquiry into the loss of the Dandenong is that the loss of the vessel was caused by the breaking of the shaft, the accident having been of an unprecedented character. Mention is made of the coolness and bravery of the officers, crew, and passengers, especially of the boat’s crew that received the survivors. The Government have presented Capt. Walker, of the barque Albert William, with a ship’s •hronometer, and have suitably rewarded the boat’s crew that rescued the passengers of the Dandenong. It is stated that Mr Amos, the contractor, has suffered to the extent of LI,OOO by the destruction of trucks on the Southern Railway, New South Wales, by a late storm. ■ ' Margaret Lewis, charged at Windsor with having administered to a child three months old carbolic acid with intent to murder, has been committed for trial at Sydney. In Queensland, Elizabeth Lancefield, charged with poisoning her husband, has been found not guilty, and a voile prosequi was thereupon entered against Bowney, charged as an accessory. - .-A lad employed in a furriery established in Melbourne has confessed to having participated in an extraordinary fraud. He took, at different times, 150 dozen valuable native skins, and handed them to an accomplice at the rear of the establishment, who conveyed them round to the front entrance, and resold them to the owners. Mdlle. Jenny Claus is now giving concerts In Sydney. Two little hoys cut the legs off a duck at Ballarat a day or two since, as an experi- - snent in natural history, “to see how ducks ■Conlfl walk without legs.” It is not stated in the ‘Post,’ from which we quote whether any experiment was made upon the boys frith a cane.