AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 840, 22 July 1871, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Mr Michie is now a member of the Legislative Council of Victoria for tie Central Province. Mr Joseph Penny, municipal auditor of Hobart Town, an old colonist, diei uu Llie 20Lli, Ciuui <liacc»c of the liuar | Diphtheria has broken out in Ma!. don. A worm disease, supposed to be the "trichina spiralis," has been discovered in some pigs at Richmond, New South "Wales.

The immigrant ship Shakspeare has arrived at Maryborough, Queensland, from Hamburg, and has been placed in quarantine, having sis cases of small-pox on board. The Acclimatisation Society has been officially informed that the efforts of the sericulturists of Victoria, however praiso-worthy from an amateur point of view, are to no purpose. They hare cultivated the wrong worms, and 80 produced a kiud of silk which, for commercial purposes is useless. Mr A. C. Willis, Police Magistrate at Wangarratta, fell down dead at his residence. He had felt a severe pain in his chest during the night, and was attended at 5 o'clock a.m. by a medical man, who gave him some relief, and apprehended nothing serious. Some time after the doctor left, Mr Willis was walking about his parlor when hi} wife heard him fall, and on going into the room found him dead.