Additional Australian Naws.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3374, 15 October 1879, Page 3

Additional Australian Naws.

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SYDNEY.

9 October 9. A draper's assistant named James KilPatrick Kelly has beea admitted to the InGrraary after bemrj run orer by a buss. It ia stated he is Sir James Kelly, baronet. Advices stato that Mr Pierce Ccmnoly, the scu'ptor, at Florence is progressing rapidly with the colossal bronze statue ordered by the Mort Memorial Committee. TASMANIA. ■ A sensation was created in Hobartown by the discovery that lately there was sold as waste paper a pile of official records giving all particulars of persons tried before various tribunals for offences alleged to hate been committed against the penal laws some 44 years ago. The names and all particulars of the trials are formally given, so that facts are furnished to the curious purchasers of those record* to get a knowledge of their neighbors' antecedents. NEW GUINEA. Cooktown, October 7. The Rev. Mr Chalmers left Port Moresby in July for the interior in order to- select suitable centres for inland mission station. He has since walked hundreds of miles exploring the country, and in investigating the character of the inhabitants!. He describes the latter as friendly, interesting, numerous and the country is apparently healthy. He made two attempts to cross the Owen Stanley ranges, and after _ climbing precipitous ravines, and crossing almost impassable gorges, he was compelled to relinquish the'attempt. Ho believed it is almost impossible to, cross the country. The scenery is grand, and the tropical vegetation magnificent, but progress is difficult. Goldie is camped in the neighborhood of Loloki, collecting specimens of natural history, and doing well. All the party enjoy good health. The Itev. Mr Beswick had also risited the interior of the north eaafc of Port Moresby, and found the district tery fertile, thickly populated, and the people friendly, though warlike. One tribe had lately made a raid on a Pula Tillage, and killed six natives and wounded others. The heads of the slain were carried back triumphantly, and a grand cannibal feast ensued.