AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1866, 29 July 1874, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

With reference to the Malmsbury branch of the Bank of Victoria and its late manager, we learn from the Kyneton Gktardian that a meeting of'Mr Eyerist's creditors was to be held on" Wednesday evening, wheu it was understood that debts to the amount of LBOO would be represented. Hotel and livery-stable keepers, the Guardian soya, ■" are amongst the largest creditors, some of the former having been- patronised to amounts varying from LSO to LBO. We regret to hear that the deficiency in Mr Everist's accounts is likely' to turn out to be far more serious than we had previously represented it. We learn from good authority which we can hardly call in question, that the total defalcations will prove to be not less than LIOOO, whilst others represent the amount as being considerably in excess of that sum."— A. later paper says : — George Everist, manager of the Malmsbury branch of the Bank of Victoria, was charged at the pity Police Court, yesterday, with uttering a forged cheque for L4OO. On the application of Mr Moule, the prisoner was remanded to appear at Malmsbury on Thursday next. Mr Read asked for bail, which was allowed and obtained, in two sureties in L 250 each. We regret (says the Ovens and Murray Advertiser) to have to record another mining accident which occurred at Milkman's Flat, near Beech worth, and by which a well-known miner named John Lyons met with an immediate death, and Mr Samuel Wright, t memberpf the Beechworth Mining Beard, received serious injuries. So far as particulars have as yet come to our knowledge, it seems that the two men named above and four others — Webb, Brady, Booth, and Hill— were at : work: in: the claim, when the bank, some 25ft high, gave way. Lyons was instantly crushed to death, and Mr Wright would probably have shared his fate, had not Webb, seeing some signs of the coming danger, dragged him a little aside. He was, however, exposed to great peril, and was in danger of getting drowned or suffocated by the mixed debris which overwhelmed him. We regret to hear that one of his arms is broken, and that he suffers from several nasty cuta and contusions. It is a sad coincidence that the brother of Lyons was killed in the same claim some three or four years ago, leaving • a widow and three children, to whom the man who died yesterday has ever since given a home. A curious and nearly fatal mining accident is reported by .the Creswick Advertiser — " A curious accident occurred at the Armagh alluvial claim on Wednesday ,afternoon, by which a youth named Robt. Taylor got both his legs broken. The company use a doable whip, and whilst Taylor was being lowered down the shaft, and when only about 20ft from the surface the horse got entangled with the rope and fell. Taylor remained suspended in the bucket about a quarter of an hour, when the braceman, a man named Ciaussen, lashed the rope an upright, and again to the pulley, and then chopped the rope in two to release the horse. The lashing not being sufficiently strong to bear the strain upon it, broke, and the poor lad was precipitated to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of about 70ft. Fortunately the well-boards were off, and the eighteen inches of water into which he fell in a slight measure' broke the fall, or the consequences would no doubt have been fatal. As it was both legs were fractured above the knee, one of them badly. Another lad below had a narrow escape, for he got into into the bucket to come up, and the men in the drive had just sufficient time to drag him from his position when the bucket with its living freight fell. Taylor was at once conveyed to the Hospital." '

With respect to the present appointment to the Licensing Benches, it was stated recently in ; the house, by Mr T. L. Shepherd, that in one Province a person interested in sly-grog selling sat upon the Licensing Bench. l :,■:■■■

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