AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1455, 2 April 1873, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Among the Bangalore's passengers for Mel* bourne was a Mr. Larson, the representative of the London firm of Ashter and Morris. He comes to the Colonies with the.^objec|,of arranging, if possible, for the laying Acftrn of tramways and. narrow-guage railways.*, 'He also represents English capitalists, who have empowered him to arrange for the''lrivellt• mentof L 500,000- v, • The sporting editor of the ; Leaden gives the Dunedin Jockey Club some advice. .jHe remarks, r V Those going from' Victoria would hare to submit to one drawback : that of not knowing their Handicap weights before they had incurred the expense of the voyage, which wouli do more to deter those, (inclined to a spec than any other thing. If the Dunedin Jockey Club really want us they must rectify this another time." r . .-. A remarkable case of sudden death occurred at Emerald Hill on Tuesday week. A man named Edward Wool, a ship carpenter, 3Q years of age, had been working during the day, and retired to "restabout 11 o'clock. About 1 o'clocV in. the morning he turned towards his wife in bed, and said, " Annie, my heart has- burst," and died almost .immediately. On the post mortem examination being made, it was found that the heart had ruptured and caused his death. ;\ '-. .. ,"- .', Referring to the reproduction of " Hamlet" "in the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, the Argus says;:— "The best Hamlet, according fcojpur notion of the character, whom we have gad here is the late Mr Walter Montgomery. Trie most tolerable since that great actor is Mr ■FairclPugh.: Mdlle. -Eugene Legrand. appeared (alsbfor the hVst'time ln Australia) as Ophelia. The lady is very prettyiaWcf vieiy elegant,, but does not appear/to, possess/much dramatic .power ; while , the acpgnf, which it is ! not uncomplimentary- to suppose * may with reason belong to a native of France; has not "yefc' been safißcienblf. "|vercome to enable-'herito take any assured wteitien on an English stage. - Mrs Steele, whom we are sincerely glad to'weloome babk again to Victoria, made an excellent Queen," The citizens. qt Melbourne are very much interested in ' the 1 fcffprt now being made to take' the' Yari Yean out 1 oSf* pawn. The Government Via ;.? making a deal of money out of these works. About L 30,000 per annum must be dear profit after interest and expenses ha>e been/paid^br, in other words, the citizens^are taxed that muph annually for;the benefit of; the community atjlafge.., /Any Jttpplus, M ig agreed, ought, to go either into the givjc. treasury for the ; benefit of local works, or should be swept away by a reduction of the pates, instead of which |t falls j*t p.r§sent into the consolidated revenue, and Ballarat, Stawell, or Gipps Land gets the benefit of the extra local taxation of Melbourne. A gun accident, which caused the' death of Mr Kobert Gray, teacher, at Wallan Wallan, was a peculiar one. ' Several gentlemen were on a •shooting excursion. Mr Larnach, of Kilmore, sat down ron a sjope. and lajd his gun ,on tji^grounfj before ' hinv; ' *Ehie 1 others joined Win arterwards.. Mr Gray t sat 'down on the muzzle of Mr Larnach's gun,-and then took hpld of the barrels {to- move the piece away, when the charges exploded, one after the. other, ; and lacerated the; calf of, his right leg fearfully. If there had been a doctor on thegronnd Mr Gray's life might have been saved, but three" hours elapsed before : tfie buggy which he.' yjras placed in could react .'JKilmora.. Mr Larnach said that the deceased could- (hardly .have : failed to wo the! gun before he ,sat down. There was not; time to move it out of his way before the-ex-plosion occurred. ; , _ • The old man named Edwaid Carolan, whd a "fortnight ago stabbed to death Peter Stephens; ; Was tried on a charge of murder at the Criminal Court. The evidence showed that Stephens had gone to Carolan's house, and was endeavoring: to force his way into the place, : with what object could not be proved, although ft was suggested it wa§ jn search, of a yoman wfyo had.liyed witfy 'ljim.' Carolan resisted his entrance, strop]? him several times w;th the flat "of the knife^ and at lost §tabb§4, him in the tlugh, the wound severing. „s}§ femqral aptery, ajjd tfee result heing Stephens's death in a quarter of an hour, The defence was that the wound wag accidently inflicted in the scufieV or, # not an accident, it was not inflicted from malice, and the crime was therefore manslaughter, and not murder. . Mr Justice Fellows summed; up for a ooriviotipn;for manslaughter, and the jury found the prisoner guilty of that offence -only;;'-:; He was remanded for sentence. A storekeeper named Hughes had to undergo great privations on a journey last month from the Bavenswood diggings, Northern Queensland, to the seaport, Bo wen. In crossirigthe then swollen by floods, he !\jras swept "off his horse by the current, and; canned ■down stream. Several; times he/ jras washed under; but at last was forced head foremost afeauist-a tree, 1 by means' of which he reached thebank. His clothes, which he stripped off before entering the water, and his valise, had vaniahe,d.,witt the howie, and hi had not jT stjtcK of apparel.* 'The^ black :\y^ Wo ac^mpanied urn th iught r he was drowned,, and set ou^ for the nearest statipfl. 3lr;B[ughes} ■w^eh Jie. recovered . fjp,tn? exhaustion, tied |q proceed in thp earns, dnewion. ffor'roui? ; flays and three nights he pushed *>n without any sustenance except water, enduring frightful tortures from' the mosquitoes, which incessantly preyed upon his bare skin. At length} iifKen almp.g^ dglirious, he fell in with" a carrijsVWhb was pamped at the Elliott Rivep, : A rather strange administration sntt%as heard in the Equily Court, Melbourne. Some few months ago, Mr W. Moore, landlord of the West End Hotel, Spencer street, died intestate, and Mrs Mary Moore applied for letters of administration to his estate. She had been married to him in 1869, some few montb.B. aften another Mrs Moore, to whom tb^e had been married, died. This previous Mrs Moore deceased had married as a "bachelor," and Mrs Mary Moore, the appellant, had never heard, while living with deceased, that he had had another wife before her said immediate prede; cessorl After Modre^B death? another Mrs Moore, with ttie'Ghrito&ra

ratne of Lucy, turned up. She also; claimed that she was the only lawful; widow of the deceased publican. This Mrs Lucy. Moore, last referred to, proved to 1 the satisfaction of Mr Justice Molcsworth, that she was . married to the deceased in, 1852, in Scotland. Shortly afterwards her; husband and she came out to Victoria. They separated in 1857, in consequence of domestic discord, and though she had heard of his two subsequent marriages, she maintained silence as to her position till after his death, and apparently he was led to believe some years ago that she was dead. His Honor refused to grant administration to Mrs Mary Moore, who, it will be' seen, occupies a disagreeable position, and is much to be pitied. Her costs will be paid out of the estate of the deceased. .