AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2041, 8 September 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Tbibqbaph.] [Per Wakatipu, at Wellington.] SYDNEY, September 1. The Cabinet have decided to suspend Mr W. W. Stephens, of the Waste Lands Department, and accountant Croft for carelessness in connection with the recent embezzlement of £BOO by the lad Evans, c'erk in the Lands Office. A further inquiry will be held. The great Southern line is opened as far as Geogery. A trial assay of ores from the silver mine at Laddoldtown, near Hartley, gave SOozs Sdwts to the ton. At the inquest on Patrick Mulday, found burned to death on the Bugarra road, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Nolan, the man who first informed the police of the affair. Nolan is committed for trial. A woman named Curran, whom Nolan lived with, is apprehended on a charge of being accessory before the fact. The case possesses some very extraordinary features. MELBOURNE, Ssptember 1. Diphtheria is very prevalent at Talbot, where also there is a plague of black catterpillars destroying all vegetation. Young Aspinall, son of the late Duller Colo Aspinall, has pased his examination with high honors in England, and has been called to the' bar. Sub-Inspector Johnston, in charge of the police steam launch Babina, reports the discovery of a large river nine miles south of Schnapper Island and some distance south of Oookatown. It has good thick scrubby banka and plenty of cedar and other timber. It is supposed to bo a strong branch of the river Ruby. Protestants and Catholics are subscribing to reimburse the woman Cummins the money lent by her to the Catholic priest to build a church at Toowoomba. The claim is repudiated by the Bishop, the priest having left the colony. ADELAIDE, September 1. A suicidal epidemic seems prevalent in Adelaide. Three cases occurred lost week. On Sunday a man named Snodd cut his throat from oar to ear; yesterday a young firmer named Sherwing shot himself through the heart at Laura; and a farmer named Woorwork poisoned himself at Mount Gambier.