AUSTRALIAN CLIPPINGS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4591, 7 December 1875, Page 2 (Supplement)

AUSTRALIAN CLIPPINGS.

Counterfeit coins are plentiful (about Yass. The Mayor of Sydney has had a complimentary picnic at Botany. Scarlatina has been so prevalent at Wentworth, N.S.W., that it was thought that the public schools would have to be closed. A company has been formed for supplying Sydney with milk. At Timbarra, near Tenterfleld, a child was 80 hours in the bush without food. Grass is so plentiful in South Eiverina that it can be profitably mown and stacked. Aymer Bray, a Trafalgar veteran, died lately at the Young Hospital. The Launceston cabmen struck work the other day because the police would not allow them to leave their cabs to go on board steamers to tout for passengers. The inconvenience was not serious. The Blue Mud Bay prospecting expedition (S.A.) [was attacked by blacks. Thomas Walker died from spear wounds. Charles Bridson had his hand smashed by a stone spear. There were no signs of gold. The country is not auriferous. The school for cookery, in connection with the Melbourne Home, is a success. Twenty pupils have entered for a second course of ten lectures. The wealthy class patronise it. Thomas Fulton, living at St. Kilda, returned from the country to see his wife, as she was seriously ill. He then went on a drunken spree, and turned the family and nurse out. The woman died [from a deep wound on the temple, inflicted by him, and Fulton was arrested. The Tanmorth Times says the extraordinary demand for handicraftsmen in New South Wales is a strong argument in favor of increased immigration. The Sisters of Mercy at Sandhurst have purchased a building for £3250. Mr. J. T. Fallon proceeds from Melbourne to look after the interests of the colonial wine trade in England. A youth in an excursion train from Castlomaine to Melbourne amused himself by throwing assafeetida about. Ho was arrested, cautioned, and discharged. I am afraid (says “Attious” in the Melbourne Leader) we are a long way from federation. The progress is altogether backward. Australian feeling is rather centrifugal than centripetal. The various colonies, instead of coming together, are much more inclined to fly asunder. The worst sinner in the whole group is New South Wales, which is always going out of its way to find a cause of quarrel. I could not help being amused at a report which appeared in the Sydney newspapers, of the proceedings of the Philadelphia commission. One speaker had heard that the Victorian commissioners intended to send all the Now South Wales exhibits to Philadelphia, and to claim them as their own. Another had been told that Victoria had applied for four times as much space as all the rest of the British Empire put together. A third enjoined New South Wales to stand firm lest she should be eat upon by Victoria. No rumor was too absurd to find ready credence amongst the Sydney goubmochcs. A good specimen of their feeling towards Victoria was shown in allowing the Handenong to sail and leave all the Californian mail for Victoria behind her in Sydney.