Late Australian News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 277, 22 March 1897, Page 4

Late Australian News.

[New Zealaxi> Times." The body of a youth was found in Mr Lincoln's vineyard, Tulle wang. New South Wales, on March Bth, and has been identified as that of Conrad Artz, a resident of that place. The body was fearfully mangled, evidently with a hoe. which was found on the spot. There is every reason to believe that the youth was murdered. The body of a middle-aged man has been found on the beach at Port Arlington, Victoria. There was a gash in the throat from ear to ear, and a portion of the face had been eaten away by sea lice. There was nothing about the body to lead to identification. A return prepared by the Lands Department in Brisbane shows that of 1,800,000 acres of land thrown open for selection on the oi'd inst., S.">0,000 acres had been applied for, with a total rent of i'o:-}NO per annum. The statue of the late Right Hon. W. P>. Dalley, Q.C., has been successfully cast in bronze by the sculptor, Mr lames Whi'.e, of Sydney. The unveiling of the statue will take place in about three weeks, on the sitegranted for the purpose by the Trustees of Hyde Park. The public- will then have the opportunity of viewing the completed work. The chief merit in founding by this process is that every detail is reproduced, thereby preserving the sculptor's modelling intact. During the progress of a'dance at Melbourne Government House a lire broke out in the sitting-room of Mrs Freeman Thomas, situated in the front of the building, on the first floor. The tire brigades were quickly on the spot, but the room, with the valuable pictures and furniture which it contained, was completely gutted. The fire brigades were quickly on the spot, but the room, with the valuable pictures and furniture which it contained, was completely gutted. The fire is believed to have originated through a curtain at the door blowing on to a light near it. A peculiar robbery of gold took place at Baliarat recently. It appears Mr W. 11. Ilicks, mine manager of the Sir Henry Loch Goldmining Company, locked in the. safe at the mine one night 200:>z of amalgam, but on the following morning it was discovered to be missing. It was the custom to take off the amalgam every day, and place it in a safe near where the en-gine-driver was on duty day and night. The safe showed signs of having been tampered with, and the door had been unlocked and afterwards jammed. The door had been opened either with skeleton keys or duplicate keys. Four amalgam dishes were found in a hedge near the mine. The engineer on duty during the night says he was not out of the place for three minutes, when he went across the engine-house for some tea. The detectives have the matter in hand. Several peisons are suspected, but no arrests have been made. A reward of A'loo is offered by the company. Harry Foran, a Domain orator and a Federal Convention candidate, appeared at the Sydney Water Police Court to answer a charge of riotous behaviour in the Domain. Foran was shown to have jumped down from a, box upon which he was standing orating on the previous Sunday and to have smitten an interjector in the face. Mr P. Bourke, who appeared for the accused, said that the blow was struck under great provocation, as the purify of his client's principles had been questioned. Foran was lined 2s. or two days' imprisonment.. A man named Murdock McPha.il, aged >»:-!, has died at (Ilenmore, Melbourne, under mysterious circumstances. He bad discovered a valuable quartz reef at Steiglitz, but his claim had been forfeited for non-com-pliance with labor conditions. He complained of sleeplessness to his wile, and was quite sensible to the last, and declared that there was nothing the matter with him. Dr Blaekct-t, however, found large quantities of arsenic in his stomach. More disooveries have been ma.de at Clenbrook (N.S.W.). Among other things found in a lagoon were a rubber-lined spong(; bag, the rubber being perished showed that it had been in the water for some time; new cashmere brown sock, marked near the top with colored silk \ ; a large turkey sponge and a broken medicine bottle, with the name Osmond, chemist, Sydm y on it. .lohn Holand has been lined 1"20. with I'Scost-:, for conducting sweeps at the Champion Hotel. Fitzroy, Melbourne. The defendant, who was known a-- the Arch Medium," undertook to leave the alone in future, a - there was nothing in it. Mr .lustier A'Heckell. Melbourne, has sanctioned the reduction of the capital of the lioval Dank of Australia, Limited. While opening some oysters at. Petersham, Svdnev, a man named John Holland, aged Ml years, cut his hand. Becoming faint from loss of blood, he fell, bur-ting a blood-ve---,, j in. the head, and died soon afterward .. Commenting on the e\odu. of Chinese, a Sydney paper -r ys : In the two China.-bound steamer*, the Chansha ami the Australian, that left wharfs last week, there- were 102 Chinese hooked. Some were from New Zealand, others 'from Tasmania. \ a tona eantriimted her quota, as did New South Wales, and a few came nil the way from Men/:,-. Wi-Urn Antra! ia. An action h being broneht by F\a Adelaide Mendoza against the MelIm.lri." t e\ ( ' liic.l .1)1 tile Metrtl politan Board of Works to recover I*"<X,KJ dant.t"! - front both d- f< nd uit«s r-oriij>eu--;i!iuii tor uijurte - ti-om a fall I s -iipp:' .• over a k » ■ pring Motie ill ftil U pi ict . The uiv-aenous .i;- <oj-. >r.»n< • <>{ Mr W. j>«\ir. -if lemd.ile, iif.ir Wit.rrai.Mtl, wa> e.t.i •:>. «•)!« n-.e mur< -t in \ ictoria wh«-n the la.st mail left. Hi- hou-i- hi ;t '.!:»■ -\tiwhit d part ef tht eouatn. Search parties ii&d

been out for days', but without result. L;)toi' particulars to hand convey the information that Mr Dwyer has been fo-iii-.l by a party of surveyor-:. The story of one of theai an interesting one, 1I:j and his companion were engaged in their work when they heard a low tapping in the forest Wondering what caused it, they called aloud. •• Hello : is anyone there ?" There was no response to their call, and a succession of *' coo-ees" had no more successful result. Still, at intervals, regular and irregular, the tapping continned. and recognising that it was like nothing they had ever heard before in the bush, they determined to make an investigation. It was fortunate they did so. -Moving back from the track, and penetrating a bit of heavy scrub, they came upon the missing man. He was sitting upon a log, huddled together like a man thoroughly worn out with fatigue. In his hand he held a stick", and with this he was tapping the log ou which he sat. When they approached him he looked at them vacantly and without understanding, and went on again with his tapping of the log. lie was evidently partially demented, and, fearing to excite or frighten him, the surveyors waited a moment; or two. wondering what was best to be done. They had not long t'j wait. The man, still tapping the log, hoarsely whispered, " Water," and the surveyors, now assured that the man was not wholly insane, were undecided no longer. They gave him water to drink, and made him as comfortable as possible in the circumstances. Then one rode off to the rescuers' camp with the news, while the other remained beside the missing man to see that he wandered no further. Although in a weak state, Mr Dwyer, after being medically treated, was gradually recovering.