AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2599, 7 May 1877, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(FBOM THE ATJSTBAL ASIAN, APEIS 21.)

We understand that Sergeant Sleigh has been retained for the respondent in the divorce case of Fisher v. Fisher. The new trial comes on on the 24th inst.

Among the wills proved in the Supreme Court on Thursday was that-of the late Mr John Manifold, whose property was sworn at £353,000.

The" Bight Rev. Dr. Reynolds, Roman Catholic Bishop of Adelaide, was a passenger by the s.s. Victorian which arrived on Thursday. The Right Rev. Dr. Crane, Roman Catholic Bishop of Sandhurst, left for Sydney on Thursday, in the s.s. Cily of Adelaide. A dreadful accident happened on Wednesday to a young man named John Barnet, aged 17 years, and living in George street, East. Melbourne, at the. establishment of Messrs Marks and Co., jewellers and electroplalers, Bonrke street easfc. : When carrying a jar of sulphuric acid he fell and broke the vessel, the -contents of which splashed over his face and body. -He was fearfullyiburned in several parts of his body,' and especially on the face. 1 A cab was secured;_a,nd ha was conveyed td the Melbourne Etospital. It is feared that he will lose the sight of both eyes.

At the police court, Geelong, on Thursday, a male child about two months old, 'found, the previous evening by Mr Scott, grocer, on a vacant piece of land near. Malqp street, was brought up as a matter of form and remanded till Wednesday next, to enable the police to make inquiries. The baby* which had been given •into the care of a competent nurse by the police, was respectably dressed, but rather poorly nourished* ; "Mr John Muhtz, teacher, of Springfield," says the Kyneton Guardian^ "has again suffered heavily in his family from that children's scourge, diphtheria. In 1873, four years ago, he lost four ch'ldren in £ very brief space, and now in 1877 he haslbisf three children, from the 3rd,to 14th instant—les3.than a fortnight—-from the same cause. \Mr Muntz being at a loss to account for this "mortality. His residence is on the main Mount Alexander : road, three miles-from Woodend, in a healthy and rural locality, and neither he nor his medical advisers, who attended his: children, can divine the cause of such exceptional liability to so fatal a dis-: order."

A terrible accident happened- at the worts'in connection with the new Murray bridge to-day. Soon after 4 o'clock one .of, the " travellers " on the Moama side of. the river, SOfti from the ground, upon' which seven men were working, suddenly fell, fearfully crushing all the poor fellows. The traveller at the time of the accident was" b§ing employed to lift the deadweight used for sinking the cylinders from "the tpR of one of the piers. . Too much of the material, consisting* of railway iron and Milestone, was taken off one side, and the cylinder canted over, struck the tra-; veller, which, in: turn was ■over-balanced,, knocked away the girders underneath it, pnd came .crashing .sideways to the ttund with all upon it and about 50 tons the loading. The men were fearfully hurt. -Their names. are X^illiam Godfrey, William Herbert, William Phillips, George James Maddrill, George Harden, and Moors.. They were quickly assisted and despatched" to the Bendigo Hospital by special train, under the care of Dr Crossen, who was at once setit for{ Godfreyj who was .dreadfully injured on the head, wa3 pronounced by the doctor to be in a dying state, and others of the woundedl men are not likely to recover, , their ; nether limbs being frightfully matagled. Where the traveller fell ruin is complete. Huge beams are splintered like matches, the hoisting machinery and bluestone are; broken to pieces, and the staging cylinders: and iron arein.utter wreck, and piled into one huge mass of debris in inextricable confusion. The girders supporting the traveller gave way for about 50 yards in length. ""'.-"'.':' . ■■- :