AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 180, 21 July 1876, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

' [Per Alhahbba.] Mflbourse John Gavan Dufly has been admitted an attorney. In the Le?islative Council, Mr Wilson condemned the action of the Government with regard to Stevenson's case. He tbxught tome mention of the matter should have been made in the speech It was the opinion of the pubHe that the Government had bungled tha whole matter, and that the action looked very like persecution. In the k gui ty Court, in the case of Morley v. Nisbett, an application for a new trial was made on the ground that the verdi t wa* against the evidencp. Mra Nisbett, widow of Janus Nisbett (Scotch Jock) disputed the p-obhts of his will, on the allegation that de, eiaed was not tober when he signed, and that it hvl not been executed according to law. His Honor refused the appl'cation, and granted probite of the will. Sydney. An inmate of the lunatic asylum at Parraraatta, was found dead and terribly mu'ilated It is mi posed that he murdered by another puti.-nt. Mr Kae, who was incarcerated in a libel suit has been liberated at lhe instance of the co^ plnnant. The schedule of Myer & Co shows that the liabilities are over £28,000, and the assets over £11,000. Jas Courier lias been served with a writ for damages, laid at £500, for an alleged libel on the Coroner, at Young. Adelaide. A verdict hai been given against a Koman Catholic Bishop on an acceptance for £."03 for g ods supplied to the Roman Catholic book depot. Two rons of Mr Burrell, bailiff of the local court, brought; an action against him for miiliciou<} prcsecution, but one was committed for pei jury, and the other sentenced to six months' imprisonment for asfaultiug his laihvr in Court.