Late Australian News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 165, 6 November 1896, Page 4

Late Australian News.

X.Z. Times.] At a largo meeting of tsirixsntors and joiner.-; at Adelaide, it was decided to give the master bailders notice ihat on and after ilccemher 1 a minimum wage of !)s a day will be adopted. The duplication of the telegraph line between South Australia and West Australia is approaching completion. The West Australian Government has laid a line on their side as far a* Euela, and the South Australian pi,rti"n will be finished in a week or two. A lad named C Jarrity was bitten on the calf nf the leg by a large black snake at Walelia. He cut the bitten part out with a knife and drank a b:>ttlc of brandy, pending the doctor's arrival. Pr Stevens injected strychnine. and the patient recovered. I low is t 1 'is for Prohibition ? N:ws from Attunga, 12 miles from Tr.mworth, states that fears are entertained that most of the crops are doomed to compkte failur?, owing to the absence of rain. If this should unhappily prove to be the case, it will have been two years in succession that the farmers there have lost their crops. Two children had a narrow escape from a tumble death in Xarrabri, the house in which they wore sleeping being burned down. The building took lire while the parents were absent at a Salvation Army meeting, and the flames had reached the bed in which the children were asleep, whin a man named Sam Cunningham, who lived next doer, rushed into the house and rescued the children. There are now three cancer patients in Albury, who are receiving the liontnen rays treatment, and in one case, that of a well-known Krewa farmer, ramed Connors, a marvellous improvement has been shown under the treatment. Connors is .suitering from cancer in tie throat, and a week or two ago went to Albury in a prostrated condition. He couid take no solid food, and had to be carried about. Since then lie has had two exposures dailv, and is now able, to swallow solid food without diiiiculty, and walks to and from the operating room. The lump has been greatly reduced, and the man is eloquent in praise of the effect of the treatment. In another case, the cancer is being greatly reduced, but the sutlerer still undergoes pain, particularly at night, and the developments generally are not so assuring. In the third case, an improvement in the condition of the patient is apparent. At a place abon f 20 miles from Taralga. two boys named Henry and Sydney .Matthews, aged nine and six years respectively, were iishing from the river bank, whe.i a limb of a : falling tree struck the elder boy on the head, knocking him into the water. The younger brother at once ran for help, but before the body could be recovered life was extinct.

Bessie Mann was charged fit tlie Adelaide P.'lice Court with the murder of her chile, Frank Maim, who was found dnwned in Torrens I vi.ko. Directly the name of the fluid was mentioned the girl cried out pitc-onsly, '■ Oh, my child, my darling," and was on the point of fa Tlie scone was most pathetic. At Sydney a more than usually interesting exhibit of samples of dressed marble was placed in the lobby at Parliament for the inspection of memb< is. They were labelled as having been procured from the Bathurs.; district. An old resident of Broken Hill, named Sayers, celebrated the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar by inviting a number of lii.s friends to a biniptet. A pood deal of patriotic feeling was displayed when Savers announced that he had received a telegram from Admiral Bridge thanking him, on behalf of the British Navy in Australian waters, for his patriotic action. The Council of the Sydney Zoological Gardens have resolved to open the gardens to the public 011 Sundays. They are precluded from collecting money at the gates on such days, and have decided to admit by ticket. A wonderful escape from dealh occurred at Nevertire, New South Wales. As the mail train was leaving for Nyngan, the clerk (H. Hernfield), while in the act of jumping from the footstep, was caught by his coat on the guard's door, and fell backwards, his head striking the train. Fortunately he was thrown clear from the wheels. He- -ustaiued a cut across the right, temple, and was taken to Nyngan, where he is progressing favorably ._ Speaking of the Hunter river wines, Professor Blunno says that when the .-(as. in is favorable and there is no rain, " these wines are simply delicious." Some reminded him of the I>:•1 table wines, both red and white, of the vintages of the temperate zone of Fll rope. Mr It. P. Gordon, Chief Inspector of Stock for Queensland, reports that in the north, where ticks have been bad. the continued drought is playing sad havoc with weak cattle. Inspector Hose, of the Cook districts, writing to Mr Gordon, states that where the drought has been felt there is a large mortality from ticks amongst cattle, but where there is grass and rain has fallen, cattle are doing splendidly in spite of the ticks. Considerable alarm has been oc- " casioned among stock-owners in the , Furoa district by the outbreak of a ! disease locally known as cripples. A ] veterinary expert was sent to report. I Mr Garrard, the Minister for Labor, Victoria, proceeded to Leongatha recently, and made a minute inspection ; of the work and methods of the labor : colony. Mr Garrard expressed com--1 plete "satisfaction with what he saw, and said he considered the system an excellent way of dealing with the un- ; employed. An "extraordinary affair has occurred at Obley, N.S.W". A man named itaiiisbottoni, employed as tutor at 1 übella Station, became suddenly in-

sane, and going to the local post and telegraph otii:'i; intomr-d the postmaster that, he was Chri.- f , and that he wished to ; <*ud telegra l!l 'to all the bishops in the world to meet hun :it Ocley. lie was arrested without diliiculty. It is understood that lie is an English solicitor, hut he was compelled to relinquish his practice ou account of ill-health.