AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 4897, 11 November 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

» The formation of an unpaid volunteer company in Adelaide is invited by the colonel-commandant. The overland mail arrangements between Melbourne and Sydney are reported as stil in an unsatisfactory state. The South Australian Assembly Has passed the Bill to establish a permanent military force by a majority of 9. A child of five years died at Paddington, New South Wales, from drinking an overl dose of brandy, which had been left by the bedside. ■ J An old and well-known resident of Sand, hurst, named John Wybrant, a su«oessful quartz reefer, died on the 26th at the aoe of sixty-five years. ! While MrChiniquay was lecturing at Maifr. land, New South Wales, some eggs were thrown into the Presbyterian Ghuea,< and the windows broken. Mr Horne, the naturalist from the Mauritnis who has journeyed through New South Wales, speaks m glowing termJof its richness and capabilities. The yield from land in New South Wales during the year ending September shows a falling off of upwards of Xl,000,000; but L 245,00 U ° Pr<>Per hM by Quantities of charred wreckage of a laroe SEw a 8 8? T^l? Kow Western Australia. The wood is apparently ©Tan shi ,B n ° tr * Co ,ot ' of ™ e nMn * , A man named Bunyan. while cutting out hay on a farm at Kelso, New South Wales, slipped down a ladder. He was carrying a hay needle at the fame, which penetratedlis lungs, and killed him instantaneouslv The body of a lad named John fountain aged six years, was picked out of a waterl hole in the Government naddock at Sale, Victoria. It was supposed at first that ho depth, but there ib reason since to btlieve he was lushed who, on seeing his head disajpbiu-, became alarmed for the consequences to themselves, and du. £» A^Si-i^ 0 * $o layone A littfe boy, too young to 1» sworn, states positively that he saw the chili pushed into the deep water.