Late Australian News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 171, 14 November 1896, Page 2

Late Australian News.

At an inquest on a girl who was struck dead at Windsor, N.S.W., by lightning, the medical testimony was to the effect that a circlet of metallic hair-curling pins on her head attracted the electric tluid. A motion for the appointment of a gynaecological surgeon and an additional assistant at the Sydney Hospital was negatived at a meeting of the directors. A little girl named Delaney has died at Hillston, N.S.W., from eating raw vegetables and passion vine blossoms. The Albury Exhibition, which was open for seven weeks, and to which 20,000 persons paid for admission, realised a profit of £7,000. Professor Blunno, the Italian viticultural and phylloxera expert, in Albury, declared that the extension of phylloxera to all the vine-growing districts of the colonies was inevitable. A traveller who was recently lost in the bush between Norseman and Coolgardie (W.A.), obtained relief by cutting the telegraph wire. When found by the line repairer he was greatly exhausted. At Scone, New South Wales, a man named Lay ton, who was bitten on the finger by a death-adder, promptly chopped his finger off, and has ,c., felt no ill effects. On account of continued ill-health, ■ the llev. Dr. Davies, the medical missionary in connection with r!i>Samoan Mission, lias been comp-iied to resign. The late Mr P. S. Macdonnell, the once famous Australian cricketer, was the son of the Hon Morgan Augustus Macdonnell, an Irishman of good family, who was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1855, emigrated to Victoria in 1861, and in the following year was returned to the Victorian Parliament by the combined counties of Villiers and Heytesbury. Patrick Sarsfiekl Macdonnell —the Patrick was dropped and Percy substituted when he became an international cricketing celebrity—was educated at St Patrick's Roman Catholic College, Melbourne. It was as a member of the college eleven, in contests, with the local Scotch College and Church of England Grammar School, that young Macdonnell first manifested his cricketing prowess. To his brother collegians he was always the genial and goodlooking Pat Macdonnell.