AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 229, 26 September 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbouenb, Sept. 16. Notrs hag been f«eeired of the discovery of a new reef at, Moliagul, which promises to be extraordinarily rich. Twelve ounces of Sold wero obtained from four dishes of rubble. A nugget, weighing 87 ounces, was discovered in shallow workings at Goldaborough, in the same district.

The barque Edsn, which came to the wharf late on Wednesday from China and Japan, reports that eincfl sailing 12 of the crew died. Tho vessel wbs placed in quarantine, the usual precautions being taken. The medical officers state that no small-pox existed aboard, and that the crew died of the beri-beri disease.

The approxiuute coat of carrying oat the sewerage scheme, laid down in the prize essay, is estimated at £275,000, and the annual expenditure in pumping, £9000.

A large and enthusiastic meeting met on Wednesday iv the Town Hall under the auspices of the Salesmen and Assistants' Uuion, to promote the early closing of pieces of business. Addresses were delivered by the Bishop of Melbourne, Mr Murray Smith, Mr Graham Berry, Mr Wrixon, and others. Application was made in the Supreme Court yesterday, op. behalf of ike Highlfmd

Railway Company of Scotland, and other judgment, creditors, to realise on the bills belonging to Henderson and Charters, of the st.-amer Ferret. The bills are valued at £7000. The police decline to surrender the bills. The sheriff, in order to obtain the consent of the Attorney-General for the surrender, asked for a further hearing. The application was adjourned. A widow named Rome, who was on a visit to her parents at Smythesdale, drowned herself yesterday at noon. She was suffering irom a religious mania. She had attended religious revivals at Ballarat, their she carried on business as a milliner. She was told by the revivalists that she was commissioned by God to regenerate the world. At the inquest the magistrate expressed a very strong opinion that the authorities should interfere with such cases as that under notice.