AUSTRALIAN NEWS. [PER S.S. TALUNE AT THEK BLUFF.]

Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1892, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. [PER S.S. TALUNE AT THEK BLUFF.]

DISCOVERY OF UIGANTIC FOSSILS"' FISTICrFFS AT A "BOROUGH COUTW3IL MEETING. PROHIBITION 11$ NEW SOUTH WALES,. DROWNED IX A SHAFT. SUICIDE OF A BUSINESS MAX.. I By Telegraph. I ! {Our Own Correspondent. } Melbourne, ICtb AugiiHt. The SonSb Australian Geologist, Mr, Brown, during * trip to tho far North, discovered many fossils in tho neighbourhood', of caves on a station atWarburton, tho chief of them being tho remains of an extinct deprotodou, a huge tortiary marsupial. A portion of a jaw, containing four teeth, is in splendid preservation, the teeth indicating that the animal was of huge proportions. During a discussion at tho Richmond (Now Scrath Wales) Borough Council, Aldermen Woodhill and Kelly, after a fierce altorcation. came to blows. They were separated, but immediately adjourned outside. On tho two Aldermen returning to tho chamber another scrimmage tookplaco, during which a number of chairs woro tmoshed and papers on the table set on firo by tho overturning of a candle. Alderman Woodhill afterwards left the meeting- „ . ,_ A deputation representing tho Good TemlilMß waited an ih/5 Actiiig-Promior of Now Sonti* Wftles and » r & ed that a Bill bo introduced to Parliament providing for a plebiscite Vcfc of all tht men and womon of the colony on ibo aislinev question of Prohibitiou. Mr. forton. in roply, said that, personally, ho did not f«YoV* the taking a plebisoito on any qtiortion. A. u ° pooplo, ho thought, hiul nlroady ffßffieion.*' P ow ° r »{ this matter in their hands. Thb .?enoral electiou was tho bost moans til teev."»lJ > h0 question, but tho matter was ono of groV™mportans«, and as in duty bound ho would ">y it befofe 1 hia colleaeues, and an nuawfa 1 ' I would be given from tho Government it* o> News has been -received at Brisbane thaft ! two strange blacks hato been Heen at Stradi brooko Island, and tho •nthoritios, thinkiup ' they woro the Dora Dora blaokß, sent aruiedl mett i» capture them . The polioo wandorcd in tho trtisb for two days, and then oamo upon, tho eorpec? Hi an aboriginal which they believed was ano oi tho party they wanted, but they found they h*d made a mistake, and renewed the search. Then a male aboriginal! was found in an omptr Jtouao answering tho. description of ono of tbtf fugitives, but ho escaped into the bush, and n© traoo of him. has since boen found. . _ ... Mr. Daniel O'Connor, M.L.C-r »"d \ftto Postmastor-Goueral of New S^nth Wales, ha=i issued a writ claiming £50C<i damages, against tho Sunday Times, for pub. wlvuiga. paragrapli which it is alleged oonnot** 8 l " fl namo in Fome way with tho Australian Bii** k * ing Company frauds. Water from an old shaft, burst into tin! new shaft of an antimony mino at Templestowo (Victoria), and two miners named Lewis Grant »nd James Young woro drowned. Young leaveß a wife and wx children. Nicholas James Mackenzie, an om nnd well-known resident of Sydney, committed suicido in Centennial Park by taking carboUic acid. Deceased for many years carried ou. business •uocossf nlly as a drapor, bufclfttterl y ho met with financial reverses, which ntadch it necessary that he should assign his estate, and this preyed upon his mind. Ho waH 52 years old, and leaves a widow and family. In tho Sydney Divorco Court, Byrora Squire, importer and pianoforto tuner,, sought a divorce from his wife. Savahi Squire, on the ground of adultery with tho Roy. Mr. Morgan, formorly Presbytorinit minister of Groonfell. Tho case camo to am abrupt termination. After tho respondent, had denied tho charge of adultery, and thepetitioner had denied the oruolty, tho petition wttB withdrawn, and the caso was< settlod on terms agreed upon between tho parties. Mr. Justice Windeyer ordered; that tho terms of settlement wore not to bo published, and romnrked that tho parties might at some time in the futuro como together again.