Australian Items.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3623, 6 August 1880, Page 2

Australian Items.

Speaking of the feeling at the result of the Victorian election, the Melbourne Telegraph says:—" Business vat almost» at a standstill yesterday. Arose walked about the streets-the faces of merehaatir bankers, and capitalists betokened that they were seriously anxious ait the-uneki pected catastrophe." "" ■.; Charles Hansson has been sentenced to death in Melbourne for rape^ In passing, sentence the Judge said:: '.* Rape iansot punished by death in England any longer but in this country, for reasons excellent in th'emselres, as the country is at present advised, the punishment for rape is death. The protection of the honor and virtue of women is a matter, tot first importance. They are exposed to the solitude of life m the country where population is small, and where the temptations to many evil men are great. I do not. hold out to you any' expectation but that the sentence will be crrrird out/*/ ,/; „', i. *>** The Hera'd states that Messrs Anderson and Croker harereeeired instructio^i to commence an action against the Crow* or > thepoliceautho?ities, on behalf of ', the" relative of Cherry, who was sho>t,byitV police in the hotel at Glenrowao. Jtia said that the relatives of < tbe Tboy Jonei will also, begin an action.-. -; ; v - '■;' v The raeeination scare is jcoW onia Melbourne. ; "'r «.* ,; In the New South Wales L^datite Assembly; the other night, two hobbttbU members so far forgot themselves as to become ' disgracefully intoxiettedt ,/0m of these had to be restrained. ■ • r, ;; Among the list of insolvents names in a Melbourne newspaper oeooirarthe name «t . a^.Mrs, Turner, who describes herself as a "gentlewoman/ carrying oiftfce burntta of tinsmith for her husband. •"* ■"« ?