AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 145, 7 October 1876, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Fine rain 3 have fallen in the country in South Australia.

Sims Reeves' terms have been accepted, and he is to visit Victoria.

Ellen Francis has been convicted for the minder of the man Davis, at Emerald Hill, and sentenced to death. A considei-able sum has been received at Sydney in aid of the Dandenong fund. There is a re-ported discovery of nickel silver near Mount Lofty, South Australia. Myriads of grasshoppers are reported as appearing on the plains at Deniliquin, N.S.W.

The Mecca has left Cooktown for Hong Kong with 220 Chinese and 4,0000z. of gold. A Queensland farmer has been fined £IOO, or six months' imprisonment, for having an illicit still. The schooner Peerless arrived at the Clarence River, N.S.W., and reports passing five wrecks on the way up.

At Adelaide a verdict of manslaughter has been returned against John Harmann, charged with murdering his mother-in-law.

Several nuggets, weighing from one to ten ounces of gold, have been found at Sandy Creek, Northern Territory. An old woman named Tape, about sixty years of age, was burnt to death at Sydney while smoking in her bed.