AUSTRALIAN CLIPPINGS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 233, 26 February 1876, Page 16

AUSTRALIAN CLIPPINGS.

Wild turkeys are said to be unusually numerous in New South Wales this season, also heavier and in better condition than general. Several remarkably fine birds have been seen within a few miles of Albury, and a few have been killed. Mr. Jamrack, the well-known animal dealer of London, arrived in Melbourne by the Sobraon. Mr. Jamrack is to the world of wild beast dealing what Womb well was to their exhibition. He has stocked most of the English menageries, national and private. The Victorian silk is considered equal in quality to Japanese, and better than Egyptian, in Europe, and its culture is watched with great interest. The caterpillar pest has appeared on many farms in the neighborhood of Tumut. The corn crops liavej been saved from its destructive ravages by the timely arrival of several small birds quite strange to those parts, which have como iu flights of countless thousands to wage a war of extermination against this crawling nuisance. The Victorian Mining department have issued regulations in the Chinese language, for the prevention of accidents on goldfields where celestials congregate. The Legislature of Western Australia has voted a sum of £B9O towards the establishment of a high school in Perth, on a purely secular A little child, wandering about, attempted to cross the Geelong railway while a pilot engine was approaching. The driver managed to pull up when the child was almost under the buffer.