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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 169, 31 May 1872, Page 3

The " Australasian" says :—" One- ' item of the mail news deserves more notice than it has received. We. allude to that chronicling the death of. Giuseppe .Mazzini; There .have ael- , dom been lives more purely and con 4 sistehtly devoted t©. an .idea. and. a country —the idea republicanism, and the country his own Italy—than that of Mazzini. This course he pursued through difficulty' and danger, through. 1 good report and evil report, and al-, though his end was always a noble one,, and, dictated by. the most elevated motives, it wa.s it must be admitted, sometimes sought by-crooked and impracticable paths. His life was mainly spent , in exile, and although he lived to ■ see the unification of his country, one great object of .his hopes, his almost frantic attachment to, republican doc-, triries. prevented him from sharing in. the triumph his labours had been so potent, an agency in preparing. One may differ widely from his beliefs, and question the desirability of some of his objects, but none could doubt the enthusiastic devotion to a principle, or the lofty, self-sacrificing spirit of the wearied fighter who has now sunk to rest." . The exodus now taking'place from Fiji is stated by-ablate Levuka paper to be most alarming.- : - '■•l^* Two sailors, quarrelled in a house at Newcastle, New South Wales, and . went out to fight, when one stabbed the' other fatally. A ,Dape newspaper states that the discoveries at the diamond fields art on the increase, and estimates their value at not less than £SOO a" day, or"' £1,500,000 a year. i-'.'.: :