AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 4287, 22 November 1876, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

A mineral, supposed to be tin ore, has been dipcovered at the Hodgkinson goldfield. Applett, the pedestrian, has offered to run Hewitt 100, 150, or 200 yards, for LSOO a side.

A new rush has taken place to Dunolly. Highly satisfactory prospects have been obtained.

On the 10th, a girl named Emily Tomkins endeavored to save a boy named Frederick Summerfield at the Cudgegong river, and both were drowned.

At the Sydney Criminal Sessions the trial of Luxford, for killing his children, at Penrith, was postponed until next sessions, on the ground of the prisoner's insanity. The amount L 1,040 collected at Sydney for the Dandenong "Relief Fund has been divided amongst eighteen persons. Captain Walker gets LI 00. It is proposed to form a shipwreck fund on the same basis as itbe ¥ictoria#^ciWi a '

. A Hot is reported, as probable at the (>reat Oobar Copper mines, in the Hourke district- The manager refuses to allow the residents to take water frbm a tank situated between the mines and-the township. - A trooper had tc draw his revolver to keep order. Mr John Roberts, jun., the champion Jbilliardrplay'er, gave the last of his farewell series of exhibition matches at the Melbourne Athenjeum on the 13th," and signalised the :occasion by making the largest break—-46 he has yet made in these colonies.

A most enthusiastic reception was Recorded to Edward Trickett, the champion sculler, on This arrival p Sydney ph Thursday, November 9. The mail steamer Zealandk; larrived in Port' Jackson before daylight on! that morning ; but it was arranged that Trickett's public landing should take place in the ;vening at eight o'clock.- From twiighti to dark night the Circular Quay ivas thronged with people. It was istimated that between 25,000 and 50,000 persons were assembled. Several, bands of music ware present,' And the firemen of the city had their engines- out, and a good supply of torches. :

A woman named Julia Hillery, the ife ■of a cab proprietor in Sydney, was >ramitted for trial on November 10

for the manslaughter of her husband. The. evidence showed that the woman, vfhen partially intoxicated, had a qjuarrel with her husband, and, according ,to his first account, struck him on tjie head with a broomstick, inflicting a severe scalp wound. When his dying deposition was being, taken, Hillery dknidd.that his wife r had ill-treated him, and adopting her version of the q larrel, said that she had"only pushed hj ut after he* had stabbed her in the tl e arm with.a"penknife, and that the f is]b, i; ,caiiß!?d him, to fail.i He denied tl at she hadjitruck him k _ The medical ei 'idence slowed that the deceased had re ceived a severe : blow on ; the head, .pi obably inflioted by a broom. 11l -the House of Assenlbly which gives laws to: a neighboring. Colony, Mr.lnnes referred to Mr Whitehead

ts "the hon. gentleman," when up u raped Mr. Murray to a point > of bi der. - - except the hon. number himself, had the slightest dja, of what had gone wrong, and on hj. 3 faces of more' than a few an exanssion of real astonishment was

visible. : Mr Murray, however, soon altered, their, facial appearances- by stating, that: he thought members shiuld be addressed as "hon. membets, ": the term " gentleman " being, in hid ©pinion, not Parliamentary, and he was anxious to have the ruling of the Speaker 1 on •this point. Sir Robert toqk very little time in satisfying hon. member, for he promptly answered that "either term was permissible £V and supplemented the! observation with the additional trujth that " the only objection he had to ihe term was that it was not at all applicable to sonie of them." The hon. member aid. not mention names. " I : '■■ - : if,''