Australian News.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1980, 12 May 1875, Page 2

Australian News.

A^ fatal, accident happened to a little % boy named Milton at Bairnsdale. He|< was put on a horse's back Jto have a ride, | when the brute • started, threw the child / and dragged him for a considerable distance with his foot in the sjjrrup. -Every particle of clothing nearly was torn off the poor boy, his head was literally smashed to atoms, and one of his ears was almost severed from the head. Mr M. B. Carroll, M.L.A., has been "cbWmittcT i;fdF:'tfiandff"tW %^harges f>bf' forgery. The receipts from the Victorian Government railways for the week ending 15th April:amounted" to apiiist £16,671 for the corresponding week of the previous yeir. Aggregate to date from the Ist July:—lß7s, £747,454; 1874, £698,577. Weekly average (forty- ! one weeks), 1875, £18,230; 1874, £17,038. Passengers, 1875,, 38,295 ;1874, 28,158|.; Two little boyis were severely burned at Ballarat by the- explosion of a half canister of gunpowder, which they were pourning out on to a piece of a paper, when another boy set fire to the paper. A very singular mishap occurred at the Hospital on Wednesday evening, 14th instant (says the Tarrengower Times), to a- benevolent - : patient .named George Godfrey. Godfrey, who is an industrious inmate, acts as a kind of wardsman, was in the act of reaching a lamp over his head, when without warning of any kind, his hand and arm fell down to his side, snapping the bone by ;the muscle. The crack of the bone was heard some distance by Mr Chapman, the superintendent, /who immediately went to the. poor fellow's assistance. Godfrey was in the early days a successful digger, and was once "stuck-up" and shot by a bushranger in this Very .arm, which may account in some measure for the sudden paralysis of the , limb on Wednesday evening. i The sitting 1 of the Ballarat Court of Assize terminated :on the 15th April/ when the various prisoners found guilty of the crimes charged against them were sentenced. • Amongst them were the brothers John and Samuel Wallis, who were found guilty 6f having stolen gold from the 'mine of the .Queen Company. The court house was densely packed, nearly: 500 persons being present when the sentences were being' recorded.' When His Honor was addressing the Wallises the utmost attention was'paid to every word that he uttered. A great sensation was caused when the Judge sentenced the prisoners named to three years a»dsix months' imprisonment ..with hard labor. Directly the sentence was passed, shrill female cries rang through the court house.Three women, one said to be the mother of the prisoners, another the wife of John Wallisi and the third the intended wife of Samuel Wallis, fell on the floor and gave vent to heartrending hysterical shrieks'. They were taken outside of the court house immediately, but it was a long time before they could be brought round again. The prisoners .evidently keenly felt their unenviable position, and it was with difficulty that they could be got to| walk back to the cells. . " . :

A number of, bad eases of diphtheria are reported to have been cured at Maryborough by the use of sulphurous acid. .. The Melbourne Argus says :—" Counterfeit half-browns and two-shilling pieces are being circulated in the suburbs. Sergeant Parkinson, of Prahran, has a small collection of them which have been handed to him recently by storekeepers on whom they Jiad been passed, reappearance the coins are good imitations, but their baseness can be immediately i detected 1 by weighing them in theJiMpfc ! as they are very light." "TT'^yS -&£? 1 We see by the Northern Argus that an. i aborigine has been hanged in Queensland i for rape, and a' white man has had i sentence of tteath •',' recorded " for rape. i In the last case the,, jury recommended ; the prisoner id merely on the ground that there were no signs of violence on the 1 victim of his outrage. 1 . A constable named Houlahan bas been 1 committed for trial at-Kildare for appropriating a bottle of brandy on a Sunday. A dividend of £&■ per share has been declared in the Victoria Insurance Company. "M. D.," writing in the Hamilton Spectator, says raw milk is a good remedy in cases of typhoid fever and diarrhoea. Her agent, Mr Elliott Busby, assures the public that Madame Uistori will arrive in Sydney and make her first appearance in. July next, at the lloyal Victoria Theatre, where she will appear in.conjunction with her dramatic company for a period of twenty four nights. The engagement of Madame Ristori is limited, in consequence of having arranged to appear .in Melbourne for the same period, prior to her departure for South Australia, en route to India, where this great actress will take her farewell of her profession. The old saying, " What may happen to a man in Victoria," was never more truly exemplified (says "Tattler.".in Town and Country) than in the case of the man Butcher, who died from the effects of alcoholic poisoning in a very abrupt manner yesterday afternoon. Not very long ago the deceased, in company with his brother, came to this colony in the prime of youthful life, well-educated, healthy, and cheerful; with^money in Tus'pocket to enable him to hVe in ease" and comfort; and a fair field open for him to gain position'and respect. But, in the J face of these great advantages, an incomprehensible infatuation took possession of him, and gradually he sank into the depths of debauchery, crime, anil degradation, culminating now by goirjo^tb aVpre&pture grave in disgrace. Ips parents 1 are in high positions at honfrJiii From these he constantly received-remittances, and'at the time of his death'about £1600 Was on the way to hinu This young man's miserable end should be a deterrent to others following- a'siniilar course of iniquity." "' ■ . A tombstone in "tKe Stawell Cemetery bears as unique an inscription ,as; any we (News) have heard of.. It is erected to the memory of a former resident of Stawell and his, son.' The latter, aged 18, died under peculiar circunistances,,which our readers will doubtless recollect. He was eating a mutton chop, when! a jagged piece of bono lodged. In' the oesophagus, and subsequently cut an important bloodvessel before it could be" dislogcd, the unfortunate young man bleeding to death in consequence. The following is the epitaph:-r ,

Weep not for us, mother and brothers dear, It is God's y?'Al tnat we ave'liere.': At my; s\ycei> a,'*e 1 swallowed a bone t ,] That sent me to a happy home. '' li .;. *;