Late Australian News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 112, 4 September 1896, Page 4

Late Australian News.

(Evening Post.) By an explosion at the Victory mine, Charters Towers, Queensland, Mr J. Taylor, the manager of the mine, was injured about the face and eyes. At Stratum, Tasmania, a young man named Frederick Mace fell off a lighter and was drowned. Three schoolboys, aged from 10 to 14, have been charged at Narrabri with attempting to burn down a public school. A heavily-laden wool waggon was lately bogged in the main street at Walgett for three days. A young woman named Sarah Began, who was committed for trial at the Newton (Sydney's Court on a charge of stealing jewellery, stated that she could not help stealing. Mr .Justice Stephen remarked in the Sydney Divorce Court that if the divorce business went on increasing one Judge would be necessary to deal with it exclusively. John Francis, a Frenchman, was found guilty at the Sydney Criminal Court of uttering a counterfeit coin, and was sentenced to three years" penal servitude. In the case of Ponting v. Hiuldart, Parker, and Co., at Melbourne, the application for a new trial, which was refused, was based on the alleged " treating" of jurors by the defendants' senior counsel and solicitor. A syndicate of mining companies has made an offer to the Victorian Railways Standing Committee to construct a narrow guaire railway to Walhalla. The Woolabra bore in -the Moree district, New South Wales, is dowr> 1997 ft., and is yielding 750,000' .-u* of water daily. Richard Dolanv, a far'"* • r i | V rjv~ r ' U ' - at or,; h Melbourne. ? _rt Booth, who was a pasoy the R.M.S. Oceania from ~iidon, and who has been appointed to the command of the Salvation Army in Australia, is suffering from rheumatic fever. Charles Fraenkel was, in the Sydney Divorce Court, granted a decree nisi for a divorce from .Josephine Fraenkel, and was awarded £3OO damages against the co-respondent in the ease. At the Central Criminal Court, Sydney. Dionisio Deiconte was found guilty" of abducting a girl, and was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. Captain Carter, of the Costa Rica Packet case, returned from London by the K.M.S. Oroya. A drinking fountain erected at Pyrluont by Mr Samuel Hordern, and presented by him to the citizens, has been unveiled by the Mayor. A Married Women's Protection Bill has been introduced into the South Australian Parliament. It relieves wives under certain conditions from living with their husbands. Dr Seabrook, of the Broken Hill Hospital, recently removed a portion of the vertebral bones of a deceased patient, and has explained that he did so as a protest against the Coroner ordering a f*>st mortem to be made by aaootade doctor.