AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 177, 20 September 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

VICTORIA,

The extraordinary personation case at Sandhurst continues to excite great interest. The woman Evans is still carefully confined in the hospital, and no longer refuses food. The doctors believe that her mental health will soon be restored. The evidence shows that she carried cut the deception of being a male for nearly 20 years, almost without suspicion. She was a skilful ploughman, carpenter, blacksmith, miner, and, in fact, Jack-of-all trades. There is little doubt but she married three wives. The first, it is believed, soon separated from her and married again. The second wife died, but no*- in Hd’dbirth, as has been alleged. The. tniro wife still persists in her statement that during her nine years married life she never discovered that her husband was a woman until the recent discovery, and always regarded Evans as the father of her child. Evans continues very moody, stating that now they have discovered her tiiey might as well end her life. A male acquaintance visited her a day or two ago. After fi cling the muscles of his arm ns if to estimate his strength, she suddenly sprang out of bed, grappled him, and tried to lake his clothes off. She would have overpowered him had not help arrived, wlvn she retired sullenly to bo-1, it is proved that she lias had « child bev.-eif, sioco dead. She claims to be . the nephew of Sir DeLacy Evans. The. features of this man-personator are feminine, but with a masculine her f-ice is as >-I-ar of hair as an infant’s her height about sft. 3iu. „ A fire occurred on S,.pt. 10, .-.bout midnight on l no premises of Mr I '. (1. Carr, tabac uuist Svr-ns'.o , South Melbourne. He state' just as he was about to close, two men entered, locked tue door, seized him, and for--, d him down a sewage well under tne shop. They, put a heavy weight on top of the trap and robbed the shop and then set fire to the premises. He forced the well open and e raped. The rales on new papers ported to other Colonies will shortly be reduced. Government decline to reduce the letter rate from 2d to Id, as it would involve a sacrifice of £49,000 a year.. Captain Irvine’s certificate has been suspended for two months for misconduct in quitting the bridge of the Claud Hamilton just before her collision with the barque Eden. The ‘Argus’ considers the punishment to be unduly severe.* There have been violent scenes in the Assembly, During an 18 hours’ sitting last week the Minister for Public Works was again taunted with being a cattle duffer. Mr Patterson warmly repudiated the slander, declaring his complete innocence. He became greatly agitated, and finally he sank into his seat and burst into”(enrs. Mr Berry, in addressing his Geelong constituents, declared they had better be slaves and swamp the Assembly altogether than leave Victoria any longer in the grasp of the selfish minority with monetary in terests to serve. He announced his intention of stumping the country. Secundus has almost paralysed speculation on the Melbourne Cup. Suwarrow was lately backed to win some thousands at 100 to 3,4, and 5. Sweetmeat has received support at 100 to 4, and Falmouth has been occasionally backed at similar figures. A rather severe earthquake shock was felt in the western districts. Excluding the Government and departmental accounts, the deposits in the Associated Victorian Banks show a falling off of over half a million during the March to June quarter. The wrecked ship Ivanhno was sold for £390. A lad aged 16, at Lilydale,' blew his brains out because his father chastised him for misconduct. The net result of the Idnd tax up to June 30 is £252,000. The ebpenso of administration was £23,000. Mr B. A. Proctor, astronomer, purposes lecturing in New Zealand during the winter of next year. In regard to the sensational claim for five millions’ worth of land m Melbourne, the Victorian Land Department knows nothing of the alleged grant on which the claim is based. It is suggested that Trickett should meet the three best Victorian scullers in a three mile race, encountering them successively at the commencement of each mile.

NEW SOUTH WALES,

The Bishop of Sydney advises the members of the Church of England to support their schools. He feels bound by every tie of patriotism, Christianity, and cliurcbiitimship to maintain those sciiools.