AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 19, 22 January 1872, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

The following Sydney telegrams appear in the late Australasians : — His Excellency the Earl of Belmore leaves lor England in the Sobraou about the end of February. Paxton and Holman's claim at Tambaroora paid £2,148 per share ia dividends during the last ten weeks. The crushings have averaged over 13ozs. to the ton. Tbe barque King Oscar was attacked by a whale on the passage from Hobart Town to Newcastle; so violent was the shock, that a leak was caused in the vessel, and the water made at the rate of six inches an hour. Kelly, convicted of the murder of Edward Edwards, a warder at Parramatta Gaol, was executed this morning at Darlinghurst Gaol, when a most horrible scene took place. Tbe culprit obstinately and resolutely refused all religious consolation from the clergyman who attended him in his last moments. He resisted the warders on the scaffold, howled, and blasphemed terribly, and swore that be would not die. Force had to be used in order to place the rope round his neck, and then a frightful struggle took place. Eventually he was overcome. The body remained suspended more than half-an-hour before life was extinct. Several of the spectators were sickened by the revolting spectacle. Ten thousand Government debentures have been purchased on Melbourne account at 2| per cent, premium. A speculation in sardines has cleared ' the market. Sales of Adelaide wheat have been effected at 4s. s^d. The ship Allahabad takes 300 tons to London.