AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 163, 11 July 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(Per Wakatipu.)." mv Sydney, July 1. ihe mail coach, which left Oberon at 3 o clock oii Saturday, was reported by the mailman on bis arfival at Tarana as having been stuck up by an armed man covered with a bag with holes for bis eyes. Tbe alleged attack was at a wild place of road called Dog Rocks, lo miles from Oberon. The man preeented a revolver and took the mailbag and over £1 from the mailman. He then told the driver to go on; There were no passengers m the coacb. The bag wae found by the police on Sunday, the .'letters being then torn open. A few cheques had been taken. The Oberon police left for the scene immediately on receipt of the information on Saturday evening, but the offender is still at large. Ah old man, apprehended in Hyde Park yesterday for begging, was found to have " concealed about his person " securities and cash to tbe value of £1277 7s 3id. He was awarded 14 days without the option of a fine. The Newcastle Chinese gardeners have resolved not to hawk any vegetablea for a period of one month, much to the dis comfilure of tbe Europeans. The result is that European vegetable, dealers buy from John at reduced rates, and sell at extended rates. Melbourne, July 1. The Commissioner of Customs, in referring to Sir B. O Loughlen's motion, said at a public meeting that titles "did not frighten him, and were often gained by cattle duffing proclivities on the mala Bide, or loose virtue on the female side." The city health officer has made an inspection of the slums, and reports that the Chinese quarter ia dreadfully overcrowded, and that European houses in the same quarter were worse than the Chinese. The Bakers' Union are making a raid against their brethren, who undersell them by giving short weight. Seven more bakers were fined 10s and a guinea coats yesterday The suggestion that the Berry testimonial should be a shilling subscription not having brought forth tbe silver, a writer in the Age aerionsly suggests a public meeting to initiate a sixpenny subscription. The Engliah fish landed per Bteamer Cuzco waa sold by auction yesterday morning, and realised about £3,000. Salmon brought 5s 3d to Ss Gd per pound; tnrbot, 2s 6d per pound; cod, la 7d p9r pound. -All the., fish were in prime condition The Geelong City Corporation, having been refused admission to the * railway station on Saturday last when the Princes passed throngh, declined to attend and welcome them yesterday when en roue to Ballarat. An old woman named Gilman, who said ahe was 104 yeara, died from old age and debility last night. There were loud cheera given when the defeat of the Berry Government was announced by tbe Speaker. Before the division Mr Minims and Mr Longmore were both severe in their speeches against the Govern ment, bat both concluded by saying they would vote with the Ministry. Mr Mirams said they bad done mors than any of their predecessors to reduce politics to a mere system of scheming and intriguing, and showing that the reward of political life was not for faithful service, but tbe reward of tricksters and bullies. He would vote for the Ministry, but he never gave a vote witb more regret. Ana laide, Ist July. August Zilm, a farmer at South Hummocks, while attempting to shoot a dog, accidentally killed his daughter, two years oiu' who toddled in front of the gun, the shot completely tearing away her scalp. The Supreme Court, in banco awarded £750 damages to Mr. Cbamier, engineer, for damages sustained through a capsize of Hill and : Co.'s coach. Beisbane, lat July. The death of a child at Ipswich is reported under curious circumstances. The mother received a letter from a f rieud in service, who was suffering from a fever in Rockbampton, and the child nibbled tbe envelope, and so, itis believed, contracted the fever