LATE AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 4419, 28 April 1877, Page 3

LATE AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

The'following items of Australian news are.contamed in papers received at Hokitika by the Albion, and are not mentioned in the telegrams of netfs by way of Auckland,:— 1 VICTORIA. . i . A quartz specimen weighing Blbs was found by Henry Bell in a claim immediately south of the Briseis Quartz Company, Am. herst, which yielded of pure gold. Abortive ;be#i ,'piade j to bring about the amalgamation of the three Mel* bourne Gas Companies. ; , , , At SmytSedide/' the proprietor of' the ‘Grenville Advocate’ was committed for trial for an alleged libel on Mr William Clark, M.L.A. A man named Paine was found lying dead in Little Lonsdale street, Melbourne. His skull was fractured. Four men have been arrested for his murder. Mr James Osborne, of Illawarra, and formerly a member of the New South Wales Assembly, committed suicide at the Union Club, by blowings his brains out. The liabilities of M. L. Solomon, auctioneer, are over L 15,000, and his assets L 6,500. < Frederick Pool has been committed for trial at Mhdgee for forging and uttering AustraBank notes. Copper and- circus and menagerie arriVed at Sidney iym Robert To.wttby the

s.s. Gland Hamilton. The giraffe belonging to the menagerie received so much knocking about on the passage that it died. Mr Claxton, a lawyer, has lodged a protest against the legality of the South Australian elections, on the ground that the voting papers contained other marks than the initials of the returning officer,' namely, the returning officer’s stamp, which custom has always been observed.

The Governor opened the state school at Gawh r, and made a strong speech in favor of perfectly free education. The Hon. Thomas Elder has, imported a steam earth-scoop for dam-sinking. The squatters are greatly interested in its trial. Ope party at the Echunga diggings have obtained 21bs Isoza of gold m two days. '