AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2333, 24 September 1881, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[By Telegraph.]

[Per s.s. Albion, at Auckland.] MELBOUBNE,:Septomber 17. News has been received of the discovery of a new reef at Moligne, which promises to be extraordinarily rich. Twelve ounces of gold were obtained from four dishes of rubbish. A nugget weighing 87oz was discovered in a shallow working. The barqne Eden, which came to the wharf late on Wednesday, from China and Japan, reports that since sailing twelve of the crew had died. The vessel was placed in quarantine and the nsnal precautions taken. Tho medical officer at the Heads states that no smallpox existed, and that the crew died of beriberi disease.

The approximate cost of carrying out the sewerage scheme laid down by the prize essay is £275,000. The annual expenditure for pumping, £9OO.

Application was made to the Supreme Court yesterday on behalf of the Highland Railway Company, Scotland, and other judgment creditors, to realise on bills belonging to Henderson. the charterer of the Ferrett. The bills are valued at £7OOO. The police decline to surrender them.

The barqne Omeo, while beating up the west channel yesterday, was driven against tho Swan Spit pile lighthouse, and the entire structure gave way, not a vestige being loft above water. The men in the lighthouse escaped and safely boarded the Omeo, which met with scarcely any damage. A temporary light has been placed on the Spit. A widow named Romo, who was on a visit to her parents at Smythesdale, drowned herself yesterday afternoon while suffering from religions mania. She bad attended a religious revival at Ballarat, where she carried on business as a milliner, and was told by a revivalist that she was commissioned by God to regenerate the world. At the inquest the Magistrate expressed a strong opinion that the authorities should interfere in such cases as that under notice.

A large and enthusiastic meeting was held on Wednesday, in the Town Hall, under the auspices of the salesmen and assistants of the Union, te promote the early closing of places of business. An address was delivered by the Bishop of Melbourne, and Messrs Murray Smith, Berry, and Wrixon were amongst the speakers; 2000 were present. ADELAIDE.

The Enro inquiry finished yesterday. The Marino Board found that the vessel had been navigated too close to the shore and that a proper look-out had not been kept. The Board decided to send the case for official investigation.

SYDNEY, September 17. Yesterday the Mayor returned from the inspection of buildings reported to be -unfit for habitation. The Mayor decided that forty-two were ripe for demolition, and ordered that steps should be taken to have others properly repaired. ADELAIDE, September 17. Several European buying firms will be represented at tbe coming wool season. Tho Caledonian Society, at a meeting on Wednesday, made private subscriptions of nearly £SO for the sufferers by the late galea at tho Shetland Isles.

PERTH, September 17. O’Grady, master of the Clarence Packet, has been arrested for murdering a Chinaman. BRISBANE, September 17. The Assembly, on Wednesday, passed the Appropriation Bill of a through all its stages. The report of the Royal Commission in reference to the management of the Agent-General’s office, states that so far as the Commission are able to judge, the work of the office was efficiently performed. A paragraph in Saint George’s “ Standard ” on Saturday last states that Sknthorpe has arrived there. He persistently assorts that he has Leichardt relics, which he will produce when sufficiently remunerated. He alleges that he possesses Leiohardt’e and Classen’s diaries, telescope and compass, in good preservation.