AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2461, 24 February 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[BY TBLBGBAFH.J (Per s.s. Hero via Auckland.) MELBOURNE, February 17. Contraband spirits and tobaoco, valued at £IOO3, were seized by the Customs officers from the Chinese at Breswick. Another death from erysipelas ocourred in the Melbourne Hospital. The ooroner said the man would have lived if he had been taken home instead of to the hospital. A series of aooidents occurred at Marong races on the 15th. One horse ran against another and unseated the jockey Purves, over whom the horse passed, traoturing his skull. Another rider named Eddes was thrown from his horse and broke his neck, and the horse, Young Ebor, broke his leg and was shot. The annual wool market returns show a large inoreaße of business. The sales amount to £158,000, being £36,000 over the previous year. The Hospital committee have resolved not to occupy the beds vaoated until the space allowed to each has been increased. A sub-oommittee is now enquiring into the sanitary condition of the Hospital. The Customs officers have seized fifty oases of spirits from the Chinese of Avoca. Miohael Elliott, manager of the Bank of Australasia, died suddenly of apoplexy on the 16th.

A line repairor, named Donovan, was run over and killed by a passing train at Footscray. Another laborer, named William Collins, similarly met his death at Spencer street. SYDNEY, February 17. The Viotoriau Ministerial party, consisting of Messrs Bennett and Graves, with Messrs Roods »nd Ford, engineers, visited Newcastle on the 15th, and carefully inspected the coal mines at Wallsend and Lambton. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that the late Under-sheriff Thurlo died from the effects of strychnine, self administered, and added a rider censuring Dr. Power for refusing to Bee Thurlo when brought to his house in a dying state. A proposal is mooted to establish a Colonial Humane Society for the recognition of aotß of bravery. In the polling in Sydney for the local option clause, all the wards, except Maequarrie, voted against the increase of public-houses. The Marine Board passed a vote of oensure on the captain of the Boomerang in connection with the recent oollision with the Atlanta. Henry Ogg. of the firm of Prince, Ogg, and Co,; who had been ailing for some weeks, died on the 15th. Tho Crioket Aseooiation invited the Victorian team to dinner, but the invitation was deolined, owing to an unfortunate misunderstanding. Murdoch said to Boyle, he intended to see his side get fair play, and Boyle took this as an affront, and the whole team refused the dinner, which oame off nevertheless as announced. In the match—English Eleven v Eighteen of Stanmore—the visitors made 119 in their first innings and 153 in the seoond. The Eighteen scored 83 in one innings. The New South Wales and Victorian teams were entertained on the 16th inst. on board the Garonne by Captain Hill. PERTH, February 17. Bishops Griver and Salvado, the founders of the Norkia Aborigines Mission, proceeded to Rome by the mail steamer. BRISBANE, February 17. A private company has been formed to establish a refinery and brewery upon a new process invented by Robert Tooth. A Chinese junk named Wong Hirg returned from eleven months' voyage around New Guinea, and reports that the natives are hostile and treacherous. All through the voyage was not very successful. " Six Girls " is the title of the latest novel. It is expected that a sequel, entitled "Our Broken Gate," will be issued soon.

iJroaatul Jest. — Barrens me or mwui Forrest contains many interesting anecdotes of the famous tragedian j but there still remain many which have never been printed. Once, when he wa« playing “ William Toll ” in Boston, Barnem,Q , eßsler , fl lieutenant, should have said, “ I see you love a jest, but jest not now.** Imagine Forrest's leeiing when the worthy exclaimed : “X see you love a jest, but not jest now,* 1 ,