Australian Items.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 220, 23 September 1901, Page 3

Australian Items.

At Camperdowu, New South Wales, Amy Chatburn, 10 vear3 of age, was killed by a tram.

A country visitor to Melbourne was found dead bet his bed in the City Hotel in an aitiiu ■- of prayer. Heavy mot t ulip is recorded among lambs in Tasmania, a. 1 many ewes have also succumbed to the inclement weather. Quite a panic has c: furred amongst the residents of Port Pi.io through the remarkable mortality amongst children there.

A Chinaman named Wong Ling _ Goo committed suicide at his residence, North Bondi, Sydney, by hanging himself to a rafter. A man named E. J. Harris has been found dead on the Culgoa Liver, New South Wales. He left the town with some cattle a few days previously. A man named John Finnegan was shot while walking along Kent-street, Sydney. The bullet was extracted at the hospital, but it is not known who fired the shot. The body of Walter Madjhius, late [ third engineer on the steamer Perth, was found floating in the Yarra, Melbourne. It is supposed that he fell in accidentally. A wood-cutter named John Mullins was garotted in Kent-street, Sydney, the other night, and had his nose broken and face severely cut about. He was also relieved of ii 7 10s. During a storm at Albury, New South Wales, on September 8, there was a loud thunderclap, which was followed by a shower of line yellow powder resembling sulphur. A party of men were overhauling a pump at Yacltandandah, Victoria, when one of them suddenly fainted. He was caught in the arms of another, and died without uttering a word. A very old resident of the Ballina district, New South Wales, named Simpson, living at Pimlico,, was bitten by a snako on August '2.1. Remedies were applied, but proved ineffective, and the man died the next morning. At Deniliquin, New South Wales, a young man named William Dal attempted to commit suicide by jumpiug into the Edward River. He afterwards repented, and climbed up the piles of the bridge, 30ft or 40ft to the decking, and was then hauled back to the bridge. A long-distance telephone between Sydney and Melbourne is favored by the Federal Inquiry Committee. Connection between the other Australian capitals should, the committee thinks, be deferred until the financial results of such a line

have been proved by experience. On September lOtb, Lucinda Silva, a young married woman, was committed for trial at Ballarat, on a charge of murdering her infant child at Bitfield. The bones of the child wero found among the ashes. The mother protested that the child’s death was natural.

In the opinion of the Christian Endeavour Convention, the l’ostal Bill, as passed by the Federal Parliament, is satisfactory, “in so far as it will prevent the Tasmanian Post Office being used as an instrument for gambling purposes in defiance of the wishes of the people of the other States.”

During the progress of a football match at the Bowen Bridge Ground, Brisbane, W. Batt, one of the players, broke his leg. Mr J. Noonan, Millthorpe, New South Wales, lately found 30 lambs dead. Their tongues had been torn out, indicating depredations by foxes. At Melbourne recently, James Macdonald, professing to be an agent for land selectors, rccoivod a sentence of throe years’ imprisonment for the larceny of TbO from a client whom he misled by false pretences. To the end of August 413,532 bushels of the past soason’s maize crop wero shipped from the Clarence to Sydney. In some parts of the district cane crops wero frosted, turning out badly, as low as Is por ton density price being paid. Decently W. Hattersley, a miner of Temora, New South AVales, made desporate but successful efforts to extricate a mato from a fall of earth in a shaft 90ft deep, and has been awarded by the Royal Humano Society of Australasia with a bronze medal for his bravery. The other night the Prince of Wales Hotel, at Nundah, Brisbane, was brokon into. A safe containing about TOO worth of property was stolon. The burglars utilised a buggy standing in the hotol yard for the removal of the safe. After taking it some distance they blew it open with dynamite. Three men have been arrested on suspicion. The fato of the Queen's arch in Melbourne —one of the relics of the gay doings in May—has been determined at last. The once handsome structure, which cost the State of Victoria some jGIoOO, has been disposed of for a TlO note ! A week or two back the Works Department, so bad was the timber market, could not raise even that sum for the huge toy, and was contemplating giving it a coat of paint and waiting for better days. The births registered in South Australia in 1900 numbered 9143, being fewer by 254 than those recorded in 1899, and, with one exception, being the lorvest number registered in any year since 1577. The deaths registered during the same period numbered 3774, being fewer by 632 than those of the previous year, and being the lowest number recorded in any year sineo 1892. The number of deaths from cancer, 210, was the highest ever recorded in one year in tho State. A fatal shooting accident occurred at Singleton, Now South Wales, recently. Two young men, John Yates and Heaton, wero out opossum shooting. Yates was walking in front of Heaton, when the latter’s gun exploded, and the chargo entered Yates’ body uudor tho shoulderblade. He died in dreadful agony half-an-hour later. Before ho died he said that Heaton was not to blame for shooting him.