AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 229, 25 July 1873, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Melbourne, July 11. Two children were violated at Sandhurst, and the brother hung himself on account of the disgrace to his family. His suicide and locality were revealed in a dream. • The Council notify their intention not to revive the Payment of Members Act. The new Electoral Bill gives a vote to female ratepayers. Mr. Morley, carrier and ex-Mayor of Sandridge, has been committed for trial for perjury, and the present Mayor fined for using abusive language. . A woman at Sandhurst was blown to pieces while drying gunpowder at the fire. The Roman Catholics protest loudly against the Papal Bull for building (?) as interpreted by the priests. The laity who belong to benefit societies declare their loss by withdrawal will be £IOO,OOO. Smart and Phillips, executors under Jacobs, have been committed for trial for making away with the property and leaving the children of the deceased to be ar-

rested by the police as neglected infants. The Budget speech estimates the revenue at nearly four and a quarter millions, and the expenditure four milions one hundred and seventy-two thousand. The iron-moulders' strike continues. A million loan is proposed for a railway to G-ipps Land. Sydney. Mr. Hay is the new President of the Legislative Council. The decrease in the gold yield is 121,000 ounces. Port Darwin. The mining prospects are good. UNPUBLISHED AUSTEALIAIT. Adelaide, July 11. Fever and diptheria of a dangerous type are prevalent at Moonta. _ The importation of New Zealand Stock is prohibited. Sydney. The question of the Californian boats calling at Moreton Bay is unsettled.