AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 373, 15 July 1874, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

The ' Colac Herald ' reports the case of a stonebreaker named Adam Rye, formerly a resident of Camberwell, near Melbourne, wha, fpr work done at Colac, received a cheque for LlB in full payment. He returned home, soundly thrashed his wife and children, and, packing up the blankets which formed the sole bedding of the party, shouldered his swag, and has net been seen since.

A paragraph recently appeared in the 8 Age ' describing a case of love at first sight on the part of a wealthy squatter and a local barmaid. The ' Geelong Advertiser' gives the sequel to the affair as follows : — "The couple attended at St. Mary's < hurch (the young girl being a Roman Catholic) on Thursday and wished the Rev. Father Moore to perform the marriage ceremony. Without a dispensation Roman Catholic clergymen have not the power to marry a Protestant and Catholic unless both solemnly promise that the children shall be brought up in the Catholic faith. This promise, or rather oath, the enamored swain refused to take, the girl refused to change her creed, and the result was a separation without marriage." Father- Dunham, Catholic priest at Roma, is supposed to have perished in the bush on the road to St. George.

The full Court has quashed the conviction of tbe washdirt stealers on the ground that washdirt is not ore.

A mob of cattle travelling from Maryborough northwards is now in the vicinity of Rockhampton. The beasts are' dying at the rate of a dozen daily from pleuro-pneumonin and also from the Cumberland disease. The symptoms are great swelling of the head, and the feet above the hoofs are very red and swollen. Bank of New. South Wales shares have been sold at Sydney for L 52. dearly LI, OOO has been collected at Adelaide towards an Inebriate Asylum. Two of the dtmumonde left Sandhurst lately, and went to Castlemaine to have a prize fight, for L 5 a-side. The women's names are Minnie Bentiy and Mary Ah You. The first beat the other in a few rounds. The police were communicated with and the women arrested. Diphtheria has been rife of late at Maryborough. One of the most recent cases was that of a fine young woman, twenty years of age, who died of the disease after twentyfour hours' illness. A doctor was not called in until too late to be of any service. An insolvency commission at Adelaide has delivered judgment on the petition of Mrs Levi, to rank as a creditor in the estate of P. Leyi and Co., and made an arder that she will raak as a creditor to the extent of L 12,000;

The Legislative Assembly of Victoria consists of seventy-eight members. The newly elected House ia composed of twenty-six Englishmen, • twenty-two Irishmen, fifteen Scotchmen, three Welshmen, four natives of Victoria, three of New South Wales, one of Tasmania, three of the Dominion of Canada and one whose birthplace was "unknown" to the biographer of the Bouse. Scotchmen, it will be seen, figure largely, when the relative proportions of the population ©f the three Kingdoms is taken into consideration.