LATE AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 885, 26 April 1877, Page 3

LATE AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

The following item* of Australian nows are coni aim'd in pa pci’s received at. Hokitika by (lie A|bion, and are nut mentioned in the telegrams of news by way of Auckland : VICTORIA. Sergeant Sleigh has been retained in the divorce ease of hisher y Idsher. " specimen weighing 81b was found l n llenrv JJell in a claim immediately south of the Jlriseis (Quartz Company, Amherst, which yielded d'lb of pure gold. Abortive elforts have been made to bring ah *ut the amalgamation of the three Melbourne Gas Companies.

At Smythesdale, the proprietor of the Gri nrillc Adr ovate was committed for trial for an alleged libel on Mr William Clark, M.L.A. A man named Paine was found lying dead in Little Lonsdale street, Melbourne. His skull was fractured. Four men have been arrest ed for bis murder. A man named Barraclougb, a woolsortcr by trade, cut his throat at Geelong. NEW SOUTH WALES. Mr James Osborne, of Illawarra, and formerly a member of the Assembly, committed .suicide at the Union Club, by blowing bis brains out. The liabilities of M. L. Solomon, auctioneer, are over £15,000, and his assets £6500. Frederick Pool lias been committed for t rial at Mudgco for forging and uttering Australian Joint Stock Bank notes. Cooper and Bailey’s circus and menagerie arrived at Sydney from Hobart Town by the s.s. Claud Hamilton. The giraffe belonging to the menagerie received so much knocking about on the passage that it died. The steamer Southern Cross, from New Caledonia, has been spoken between the north and south Solitary Islands in a disabled condition. A new Building and Investment Society has been started in Sydney. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Mr Claxton, a lawyer, has lodged a protest against the legality of the elections, on the ground that tho voting papers contained other marks than the initials of the returning officer, namely, the returning officer’s stamp, which custom lias always been observed. His Excellency the Governor opened the state school at Gawlcr, and made a strong speech in favor of perfectly free education. Tho Hon. Thomas Elder has imported a steam earth-scoop for dam-sinking. The squatters are greatly interested in its trial. Education leases were sold to tho extent of 30,000 acres, yielding £2OOO per annum. One party at the Eehunga diggings have obtained 21b 15oz of gold in two days. TASMAN 1 A. The Government have intimated to the Municipalities their intention of introducing a Bill into Parliament providing for the centralisation of the police force.