AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 146, 9 October 1876, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

♦ The trial of Captain Cameron for endangering the immigrant ship Lightning, commenced on September 21. A periodical, after the style of the Saturday Beview, will probably be started in Sydney shortly. The sentence of death passed on the, aboriginal Gillie Jack for rape has been commuted to fifteen years' imprisonment. The ship Francisco Calderon was struct by lightning on 24th August, and the steering compasses were rendered completely useless. A telegram has been received from Italy, dated 16th September, announcing the engagement of an opera company of sixteen artists. Eight of the most influential winegrowers in South Australia have formed themselves into a company ; under the management of Mr. Bourband. The N.S.W. Executive Commissioner, writing from Philadelphia, expresses fidence in New South "Wales carrying '**: some of the awards at the Exhibition. V A special correspondent of the Register, who is travelling through the areas in South Australia, speaks more hopefully of the crops, and estimates an average yield of from eight to ten bushels an acre. At Melbourne a boy twelve years old, named Smith, has been committed for trial for having placed obstructions on the railway. The Elmsgrove, from Sydney to Adelaide, has been wrecked oif the coast. Out of a crew of ten there is only one survivor. The Governor has presented a gold watch to each of the boat's crew of the Dandenong, for their bravery in saving lives at the wreck. Mr. Thomas Campbell, at one time harbor-master at "Williamstown, and who has latterly followed the avocation of farming, committed suicide in the Kew Lunatic Asylum. At Melbourne, Emma Forrester, a monthly nurse, has been acquitted on a charge of having procured abortion in the case of a barmaid named Derry, who died. In the Melbourne divorce case, Dr. Fisher v. Mrs. Fisher and Egan, the jury found the respondent guilty of adultery with Egan, the groom, the co-respondent, They also found the petitioner not guilty, as alleged in the defence.