AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1922, 2 March 1875, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

The G-ympie Times pays the total yield of gold from this field up to the 31st December, 1874, was 380,8200z. 12dwts. !2grs. Escort faes were £8,942 10s Id. Avoirdupois weight, 11 tons, 13cwt. Oqrs. I7lbs. 6.22-30ths. Value at £3 10s per oz. troy £1,332,872 3s. 9d. A man named John Fortune, who has for many years resided at Old Inglewood in the occupation, of some land, committed suicide. He went under the Hope Creek bridge and with a razor made a gash in each arm, dividing the main arteries. He died from loss of blood before' ho could he got to the hospital. He had' been drinking much lately. The Ballarat Star states :—■" Bushmen in this colony are not such savages as people often try to make out. We heard of one splitter this week trying to save a fellow-workman's; house from being burnt down, while the fiery element was not more than 200 yards from his own place, which contained his wife and children. This act, in a place where bush fires travel at so great a rate, is worthy of record." The Temperance News for February, on the " Eights of Woman," says :■—" If Mrs Colclough wants to be of any real

serrice to her suffering sisters let her influence them, if she can do so, in favor of temperance, moderation in dress, a beMcr attention to household duties and acflgi. plishments, and more regard for sound common-sense views of life and its duties. As matters at present; .stand, what with woman's nonsense and extravagance, men have the worst of it." At the annual meeting of the Ararat Mechanics' Institute, a motion was brought forward, pursuant to notice, to the effect that the institute be opened on '"■ Sunday afternoons. A long discussion ensued. The Rev. Canon Horn an and Ber J. Megaw (Presbyterian) opposed the proposition, as did also Messrs Binfield, M'J can, and others. Messrs Leslie, Murray, and Young supported it. Authorities were quoted on both sides, and the supporters of the movement were denounced as atheists, deists spiritists, and infidels. One rev. gentleman took the part of the larrikins, and declared them preferable to anti-Sabbatarians) On a division the motion was lost by a majority of nearly one-third. A girl named Annie Burton, who had been five months in the employment of Mrs of the Newmarket Hotel, Cobden-street, Hotham, got tired of the drudgery of domestic service, and determined, upon becoming a circus rider. To effect this, money was necessary, and having obtained an opportunity by the absence of her mistress on January 27, she appropriated money and valuables in the hotel to the amount of £5 17s 6d. She commenced her pi'ofessional career by obtaining lessons on the trapeze, for which she was to pay £5; Ihe theft, however, having been discovered, the girl was traced and arrested. She was on Thursday sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, with hard labour.