AUSTRALIAN CLIPPINGS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4593, 9 December 1875, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CLIPPINGS.

On the sth inst. the Homan Catholic Church at Dubbo was robbed of silver vessels used in the Eucharist. A gold reef has been discovered near O Lonnell Phiins, in the Western district, New South WsJcs. Oidi'um Tuckerii is reported to have appeared nmoriff the vineyards of Eiverma, but there are as yet no grounds for alarm, the sulphur treatment having proved very efficacious. .The Government has offered a reward or £75 for information regarding a murder committed at Narran Creek, North-West district. Another case of death by blood-poisoning is reported to have occurred near Dalby, Umatkfactory disclosures have been made with respect to the passenger traffic by the Torres Strait mail steamers. A man named Nicholas Garrick was, on the 14th November, drowned, in the hy the upsetting of a punt. . _ , , The body of the young man Tait, drowned lately in the Yarra, has been recovered by exploding torpedoes. • , , A flash of lightning struct a wool-shed near Glen Innes, knocking the shears out of the bearers’ handsWhile a daughter of Mr. Fox, public school teacher at Fishery Creek, was lifting one of the children she fell, a crochet needle in her apron was driven into her stomach, hut aiter a evere operation it was removed. Copper is reported to have been discovered in the Western district, near Parkes. Iron ore has been' discovered near the Lai Lai railway station, Victoria. , At theJEichmond Eiver the planting of sugar-cane and the production of sugar are reported to be going on satisfactorily. A named Edward Price was on the 13th November crushed to death by a tree at Wambrook. ■ , At a sale held in Victoria 8925 sheep were sold for £12,000. . , The Mayor, and Aldermen of Sydney on the 19th instant visited the Nepean and Warragambah rivers with the view of inspecting their suitableness as a source of water supply for Sydney-r, ; -.■ i , _ , . The Singapore (s.) has taken from Cooktown 183 Chinee passengers for Hongkong, with gold to the value of between £12,500 and £13,000. . . ~ Owing to the'buzz-of. conversation in the NSW °Parliament, not one answer in a dozen is' distinctly)heard /in ' the' reporters’ gallery, and it-is not improbable that this part of the proceedings will have to he omitted from, the reports. 1 1 - ■ ■ ' ' - ‘