AUTSTRALIAN NOTES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5230, 17 July 1876, Page 3

A UTST RALIAN NOTES.

I'YOM ])\\H'i-> to til'' Ull llistlllt M.' t.l.C the following '-The stoned-Ueis' -ti.Uc in Adelaide ha-, ended, ami tlio mun letum to woik to inoiiow.— A serious qmlenuc is pie\alent at Jhll Hinl, where numbcis of childim have died from it. The symptoms aie accompanied with black vomiting, while the body lapidly assumes a dark colour — During the >ear 7,300,000 sheep will be shorn in the Un eriuadistnct. —Mrs. Kami i , a spiutuahstie medium, lias mystci ioiisly dis appeared from Melbourne siuce the 22nd of May last, and no trace of her has been found — Fin ther news has been received in Sydney from Signor D'Albertis, the leader of the New Guinea expedition, who -wrote to Dr. Bennett from Somerset on the 18th of May, and stated that in tiro dajs he expected to lie in New Guinea — The alluvial diggings at Dungog, New South Wales, are attracting attention. About 70 men are at work, who make from 10s to 12j. per day with only primitive appliances, and one man found a nugget weighing 7o/, 2dwt. — It has been stated in the South Australian Assemblj' that the Government intend taking steps in the direction of canying out the recommendations of the Agricultural Commission, which recommended a Depaitmont of Agriculture — Mr. John Larcombe, while returning fioni ]>iaul\vood to Araluen, was robbed by a man aimed with a icvolvor — An aged worn m, named Sarah Keeveis, was bmucd to death in a hut near Kaima, New South Walis — A child, three years of age, was accidentally drowned in a wateihole .it Camperdown. — A little child was burned to death at Moorwatha, in the Albury district. — Twenty thousand fat sheep have been pin chased from the Downs (Queensland) stations for Sydney market. —At a meeting of the council of the Melbourne Ride Association a letter from Sydney was read, and it was resolved to ask the Commandant to lend the New South Wales Association 30 Martini-Henry ulles and a corresponding amount of ammunition. The secretary was also directed to ask when the matches can bo arranged in Sydney, and suggesting the week ending the 11th November. A young married woman fell overboard from the ' Lord Warden ' on her voyage, and notwithstanding every effort to save her she was di#wned. — Owing to a rise in the price of cattle and sheep, butchers have raised the price of meat Id. per lb. — A man, named Robert Sims, committed suicide in the Tarcutta lock-up by taking strychnine.