AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 226, 1 March 1875, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

We take the following items from our exchanges by the Alhambra : A telegram from Dunolly says :—ln the case of Theidemann, the last act of the Dunolly mystery, or rather farce, was played out to-day, at the Maryborough Court of Assize. The jury, it will be remembered, some months ago, could not agree to a verdict as to how deceased came by his death, and they wore then bound over by the coroner, Mr Coot, 'to appear at. the next Court of Assize at Maryborough to-day. When empanelled there, neither judge nor Crown prosecutor knew anything about the matter. The jury alluded to the loss of eight days’ attendance they had sustained at the inquest here, and asked his Honor to order that they should be paid for attending to-day at Maryborough. His Honor replied that they would have to look to the coroner, as the case was not properly before him, and they were then discharge !, Prom Sydney we learn that the Admiralty Court in London has condemned the Candahar to pay a fine of £IO,OOO for sinking the ship Kingsbridge in the English Channel. A telegram from Palmerston says :—Ah Kin, a Chinaman, sentenced at the Circuit Court to imprisonment for life, escaped from gaol. This man awaited his trial ten months, and the cost to the colony has been about £SOOO, as he was the only prisoner arraigned. The Ballarat correspondent of the Argus says: —“The human remains found in the bush near Napoleons on Saturday proved to be those of Mr Creed, a produce dealer, of Smythesdale, who has been missing from his home since Thursday week. The body was identified to-day by the wife of deceased, who is left with seven children. It is said deceased was addicted to drink. The inquest has been adjourned until to-morrow,” Professor Peters, the chief of the astronomical party sent from the United States to New Zealand to observe the transit of Venus, was, together with one or two others of the party, entertained at the Town-hall on the 16th by the mayor. We learn that the Swatara is ordered to immediately leave for San Francisco, and it is matter for regret that, in consequence of some hitch, there appears to be but little probability of all the scientific parties engaged in the observation of the transit in the Australian colonies meeting, as was proposed, in Melbourne to compare notes. It was hoped that the conference would have been enabled satisfactorily to ascertain and settle the longitudes of Banjoewangi and the principal places in China, Japan, India, and Australia ; but now it is feared that all this must stand over for an indefinite time.

A dreadful kerosene accident happened at South Yarra, causing the death of Mrs Brown who lived in Osborne street. While incautiously pouring some kerosene on the fire to make it burn brighter, the can exploded, and her dress was instantly in flames. She ran out of the house, and her screams being heard the flames were extinguished by some young men who threw water over her, but she had been fearfully burned, and she died seven hours afterwards. The greater part of her body was completely charred. Mr Brown was absent at Lillydale, and returned to find his wife dead. Speaking of the item of English news which states that some excellent printing paper has been manufactured in England from a parcel of Australian papyrus, sent some months ago, the sample being valued at £4O per ton, the Portland Guardian observes : —“ The ‘ papyrus ’ here mentioned, and from which some excellent paper has been manufactured, was forwarded to Loudon by Mr B. Dacomb, of the firm of Dacomb and Co,-Portland, and the discovery promises to introduce a new paper-making industry in this district, where the material is widely distributed, that will make up for the loss of the bark trade, now almost exhausted. Mr Dacomb informs us that there are seventeen varieties of the papyrus in the district, from all or any of which paper can be made, and as the quality of the manufactured paper is superior to that made from esparto grass, it is hard to place a limit to the labor which the new industry will at once call into play. The papyrus here has hitherto been regaided as a nuisance—a weed of no commercial value; science, as in many other cases, has come to the rescue, and the plant now promises to yield a superior paper, for which the demand is practically unlimited.” The Tasmanian gold mines are looking up. The Launceston papers chronicle a yield of 5390 z of gold from 235 tons of quartz at the New Native Youth Company’s mine. Mr F, B. Cuthbertson, of Messrs Paterson Ray, Palmer, and Go’s, in attempting to leave a steamer at Queenscliffe from the paddle-box, missed the jetty, and fell into the water between the steamer and the jetty, striking his head against the jetty in the fall. Unfortunately the paddles were still revolving, and they struck him some severe blows on the head, cutting the flesh to the bone, and nearly severing one of his ears. The wash of the paddles carried the gentleman to the end of the jetty, when he struck out manfully for his life, and was soon lifted into a boat and landed on the jetty. Dr Macfarlane attended the sufferer, who, although in severe pain, was pronounced out of danger on Sunday evening. Detective Hogan has reported to the New South Wales Government that Gardiner, the bushranger, has reached California from China, and is keeping a liquor saloon at San Francisco. Mr Mathison, of the prospecting claim, Bald Hills, Forbes, fell down a shaft 170 ft on the 15th, and only lived until brought to the surface. The Western Examiner reports that it has been discovered that the racehorse Gambler was poisoned with arsenic. Good stream tin has been found at Mount Cameron, Tasmania. The prospectors are of opinion that the tin country along the east coast extends for many miles. A fire occurred at Evandale, Gipps’ Land, in a stable at the rear of tire Macquarie Hotel, by which a valuable horse was roasted to death. The building, and also a ton and a half of hay which had been stacked in it during the day, were totally destroyed. The Dunolly Express reports that “ last Saturday 3oz of gold were obtained from on

the bottom of a shallow hole, only Bft in new ground, situated about half a mile on the south or Dunolly side of M'lntyre’s, This discovery bears out very strongly the opinion expressed by Mr Mining Surveyor Couchman with regard to the general auriferous character of a vast tract of unprospected countiy in this district.” Mr Robert Glasgow, an old and respected inhabitant of Purnim, was thrown from his dray and killed. Mr J. Tait, the winner of the Gold Cup, Geelong, has placed in the hands of the secretary of the Racing Club the sum of £2O to be distributed, one-half to the Geelong Free Library, and the remainder between the orphanages. On Saturday two nuggets or lumps of gold rather, weighing 17uz, viz, 14oz and Hoz respectively, were found in the boxes of the Great Britain Company, Sandhurst, when cleaning up before retorting.