AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3760, 7 September 1869, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

AVe compile the following from tho " Sydney Morning Herald 1 ' of the 25th and 2&tli August, :— The Attorney-General hai declined to proieouto Mva. Tuoker and Ryan on either tf the charges arising out of the fire at Two-mile Hat. In 1802 a dentist named Joha LonRfleld, while travelling upon the Yas3 mail, was shot at and wounded by bushrangers, who attacked the eoaoh The man received such injuries as incapieitatod him from earning a. living by h:3 profession. Maurice Alexander, M,L A , ha3 presented to the Colonial Secretary a petition from Longfleld, setting forth the story of his disaster, and begging for employment in the Government seivice Mr. Townsend has returned to Tamwoith (says the " Examiner"), and does not se-m in the least sorry that his gem did not prove to be the real Simon Pure. He does not appear to have been at any loss, although his gains are not so «reat by half as are represented by the Sydney papers, the lucky ones being those who got up the company, and sold their £5 shares for £35. Mr. Townsend, we learn, intends returning to Nei? England, and purposes devoting his attention to the gathering of rubie», emeralds, &c. s but no more diamonds He says ha will leturn u> Sydney in a month hence with a number of £61033 A bill has been introduced into tho South Australian Parliament to restrict the inpoitation of all lucifers to thO3e known as the safety matches that will not strike except upon a prepared surface The intention is to reduce the- risk of fires Mr Evans, one of tho party organised by the Hon. J. P. Fawkner in Tasmania, for the settlement of Port Phillip, and one of the earliest among the fouuderi of Melbourne, is dead. A picked crew from the US a, ' Keanage'-will try their strength and science with a crew of trie Sydney Naval Biigaders, The match is to b9 pulled in barges. ' An affray took place on the night of the 20th, in Newcastle Harbour, on board the American ihip 'Panther. 1 Several of tb.8 crew were stabbed by the captain of the 'Panther,' who acted in self defence, the men coming into the cabin. One of. the crew was com eyed to the hospital, where Jie is ljing In a very precarious state The <aptaii- of the 'Panther' was takcu to the lock-up. The affair has caused considerable sensation in tho city The ex-convict Jone», who committed tho outrage upon Mr EcUvaid-i's farm, lias committed suicide It is leldum that even the most hardened ruftuns run through such a list of crimes in a lifetime as this man did in less than three days He committed arson, robbery, Tape, attempted to commit ft most diabolical murder .by burning thtoe halpless fellowcrentures, and ended the fearful lift of crimes by suicide.