AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4283, 17 November 1876, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

The advices with referancetoareMirilv reported discovery of a new tribe of abdf. ginals etate that they reside, near * burgh thirty miles long, 150 miles-SSt .They have thatched gpmyahs, live chiefly on fish, and appear rj3£ n0 we *^ ons » _ Uie_ PublicansHßill - introduced IntS“th# Victorian Parliament and., read** first time P™™ 6B tllat no new license shall be issued withm three years.of its: beccsning law, and on }y tima.nn a majority of .the ratepayers of the neighborhood" expressing them wish at the ballot-box for- an SrS® m the number of publicrhouses. : ..J •"■iT rf-.v The remains of the late Father iHe&lßv? who Was shot by the; New pohce in mistake for k have’ been buned m tbeWahgaratta OeAetery. There is no doubt aboutTthe MehuSrof tfi# unfortunate priest ,the pewomshot. PVanfifa,; formerly Premier Engk d™' has returned to tbe Colonytfwns Intelligence has recojtved in, Sydney of a revolution ht Samoa. A mamrgenta have taken 1 ’tip ’'arms against the oamoan Governmeniy and great preparation* are being made for wm bn both, Mdba.-VThb insurgents are in a majority. ' l / of T t - hp Fwiiaengine, tpokeplace on tne Xjittie iiiveipool.Range,,jßT.S.W. The maximum load of engines; part of the line is 80 tens, ;but the FairKe tool 100 ton. *ith .great stopped on a gradient, of 1 insAbntshei started again with her load withontt fliffi* cutty. J ,:■;■■ ■'• ,t .il The Victorian 4per cbht. loan ha^aver&gCfl l m the London. Money Market L 96 3s'M;* applications were for 1^,'000,000,“ : Forty cases are, for.tnM:at.tha T next Criminal Court,., Sydney including two cases of murder,; twelve of burghnyi. and tha majority of others forgery, t A collision occurred en the raiiwayioxr I*™ 10 * *1 Blayney, ! Nbw South Wales, on 27th October, by which sixteen trucks werW thrown off the.line and smashed. Two man were hurt.

At Surrey Hills, Sydney, of kerosene, exploded, and a child six years of burned to death. * i ■° r , Mrs Jane Cliift, a widow and, dressmaker, residing, at South .Melbourne,. swaTSSmmoned to the Prahran Police Court raoeutly. to answer a charge of having illegally posted. under newspaper rate, a i copy t of the ‘ Southern Cross/ in the folds of whiohiwaa concealed a slip of paper bearing the #ords,< I will be r down. on Satwday to seeyOu/* The newspaper was found lo beßffb up into patterns of si, child , a.. The . Badoh however, considered that there attempt to defraud the revenue, was made up more as a parcel than«.news*, paper. and, the posfege was simply deficient. Case dismissed; ~ : r . lt A sum of L 5,000 has been voted to .“the family of the late Chief Justice Hansbn. -*• A woman off loose character named falling; ton has been confuted, of drowning her child of three yeain old’ in the Kiver Tapiar, Launceston, Tasmania, and sentenced to be hung. ' '* 1 A painter named Johnson, nving at WilhamstoWn, yiotoriifidifed ffrom a ve PJ u ? ua ? al cau ® e - Hniwfcat to bed at 10 o'cloekapparently in At 11 he woke Up ahd-tbok' some pudding. Two hours afterwards he gavh>“%, Hlbn . be in (great pam, medical man was eept-for, bujt: the man was dead, 7 An jnqnest was; when Mr. ijigg' who. had made -a post -mortem ex* ammatwn.iof the body.ssjfidrohfl -found that - a large hydatid cyst had fbmed on the left and the bursting of this cyst had probably caused death. J ’ The secopd reading of the Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill hasberiroatised by the Queensland Legislature. J \ What may happen to a railway traveller was recently exemplified in Victoria;. A Justice of the Peace was returning to his home from Melbourne when a man suddenly charged him with having robbed him in America. The J.P. was astounded, andnssnred the man that he was mistaken, as,they were entire strangers, and.seeing.that his accuser was evidently suffering .from some maniacal delusion, ho spoke soothingly to him. He did not succeed in-calming however, and at length he became sodemon* strative that the other passengers in the compartment had. to interfere. -IjVith some difficulty, the maniac, for such he was, was restrained until the train arrived at Geelong, when he was handed-over tq the pblice. Had there not been sufficient* help m the compartment, it might have fared badly with the Justice, as ms assailant was strong, and had a weapon with him,

There was an abrupt termination to the show of a giant in Geelong rchetf&y. The ‘Advertiser’ says that a little diffeiihce took place between the giant’s celestial attendant and Mr Sterrick, the proprietor for the time being of Choukiczee, and resulted in a fight. Things looked most alaHning, and the giant becoming exasperated seized Mr Sterrick by the coat cellar, and lifted him dean above the smaller Chin*man’shead, thus separating tile oombatants. The room was crowded with spectators &t the time ; women aud children shrieked, and dashed out of the building by the front and back doors in great confusion. .A great crowd of persons gathered in the street op. posite the show-rpomp. and-the utmost excitement prevailed." Two policemen were called in, and Mr Sterrick wanted +b»m to arrest the Chinaman for assault \ but asfliW had not witnessed the affair they would nbt do so. The dbors were closed, and the show abruptly terminated.