ADDITIONAL AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4253, 1 July 1875, Page 3

ADDITIONAL AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Per Brio « Syren. , ]

Special efforts are to be made to bring under the notice of the Americans New tsouth Wales wool staples, with a view to encouraging trade therein. The blacks on the Palmer killed a Chinaman cut him op with a shovel, and partially ate him. ■ J Fcmalo telegraphy are being freely distributed through >. ew South Wales. Tho tobacco leaf crc.p in Victoria this year amounts to 400 tons. A bullock-driver in Melbourne, for driving his tearu upon the Sabbath, was sentenced to a lino of 20*, or to undergo a period in the stocks. He was charged under one ol the Acts of the Charleses. The Victoria Sugar Company have made arrangements to send home a manager by this mail to obtain the most improved machiuery. A fire has occurred at Smith's grocery store at Prahan. It was insured for £1300 in the Queen, tho National, and the Northern offices. A few davs ago an old man, about sixty years of age. of the name of Dalton, iu the employ of Oibsou Brothers, on the Bo«olonc run, in tie capacity of a shepherd was while following his flock in the bush, at a considerable distance from tho house seized with an ejileptic fit, from the effects of which he became blind, and was thereforo unable to retrace his steps, and on the third day the musing man was found, in a verv exhausted state, and could not possibly have survived the exposure of another night in tne busii. A case of small-pox has occurred at Roms, Queensland. '

Among tip latest Chinese importations (says the Ooktown correspondent of the s< Sydney Moning Herald) there is one that a has caused •. good deal of excitement anil n curiosity fro'.i its infreijiiency in any of tho eohiait j. viz. the arrival of a Chinese lady I 1 ii L:g.. caste the wife of the resident partner st in the largst of the Chinese firms here w This lady, \uo arrived here by the Brisbane, has been qme the rage ajid holds, I believe, d daily receptbns of curious ladies and equally w curious gen'.emen, who look with wonder ir on the stroge and lich costume of the foreigner, w.o is, I dare .jay, pretty tired of tl sitting as a show to amuse people to whom si she cannot gpak a syllable, even to relievo d the tedious osition of being the centre of a a group of curius staring eyes. t: Mr. Davies asked the Colonial Secretary ol recently in tie New South Wales Lower p Chamber: l.What was the total cost in- ti curred for t&grams and cablegrams in con- tl nection with;he Pacific mail service from ai the date of te inception of negotiations to n the present tne '! What was the amount si of the total cpenditure incurred consequent tl on the visit othe late Postmaster-General to a: New Zealand England, and America in connection with-he Pacific mail service nego- ol tiations ? 3.Have steps been taken for the r< recovery fron Hall's sureties of the amount t< of their bond? 4. Are actions pending at ai law for the novery of the penalties ? 5. Is ei there any prtpect of the penalties being re- h covered in wlile or in part ? 6. Wluifr was s; the amount aranced to Mr. H. H. Hall to tl I account of ad ia excess of subsidies due w under his conrart ? Mr. \V. Forster replied : g 1. 1 regret tht the information cannot be ci furnished thisafteruoon. 2. £164t> lo's Oil. it 3. Yes 4. "es 5. It can hardly be ex- a peciod that -i opinion in a-tic-patioi. of the C I rcsnV* of yja aj-eal to thu law court should be ; S | exurt- sed. Id. I g TV Cookton eorrwiiw,vilen% of the Sydney j I Jlor.iing Ji<\d write? fV- n iv* own ; r part. I belicvihat :he IVinKi \i ill maintain s« alaiger Chin* popn'atfon tiiaa 'v.. have at I 1* pres.-nt, for any years. hoi»w«.r it may j si turn out « aiiirt i-..r white ::.': our eveutu- <' ally. All the v ist extent of country lyin» Ib< I round the Mit**ll "\\ aters and at the Palmer It j Heads is verible Chinatien's country—a tl : few dwts. :» d»—quite sufficient to srtisfy tc I John Chinaml but a great deal <00 little <ii for John Bui Later advices from the 3: Palmer indica that the same .st %te of uiat- ai j ters obtains, a. gepoval ml--. i:i the 'i ;ld. li; lAt the Xornaijy a >;ieal r;iuy tre <,jing well, but rnoKrc <piiie ' vith li their succor - * .» j -orvect .parties that 11 I lately came iivic tr->in tin. tt lot 'ire not | ' ■ 1 a t -,v, succcsslin They have failed to trace , 1! t' 1: ..ohi" o aap-v riob locality ;sma'< pros b b.-.t tliXjur everywhere, aecuia t<> I s< ; ■ ■" '..ie ftv jevaV.fc.r of theii reports. Agoou [ <•' | !. ii of sluic'.igi going on at '~>«J-.oy and J j .vuidy : in some.scs goo.l rcaal'.. "vvn 1 o ! oiitaiued. Tbe'hinaU:Ci: ;uv, as a rule, | i getting fair retns on th<r t "aimer. Thoy a I are now wi-rkin.the bed o; *.lic • .cc:-. a.'d [ many claims areikin.; hair ail ounee t / .ia t< , ounce per man. r ■lay. Tney are quietly f | but steadily pt'ng out over the older Ji j workings, Cov.xi < lakey and ivii'-ly, and t I \7ill ere long ocCu the whole of the grouud. ii | The first rusli wc l take au ay all, or nearly o | all, the men out there oroll the Mi- il ehell. In fact, hdred.s merely hang 0:1 to 0 I their claims wait,-, like Mr. Micawber, for t something to tunp." v A curious auiliierally unknown law has 1: been put into fo- at Wilcannia, ou the (. Darling, as the CC sponilent of the PuMural 1 Fin 11 * writes 'iur i»iliee trooper lias s astonished tlie i&smiti " of this town by 1 ordering one of iii to clo=e the door and 1 windows of h.s 3Eriy within one liour after sunset. The repentative of Tnljal Cain c ; ' jibbed' a little'mt yetteiday morning 1 . found, on apph-ii to the police sergeant, c 1 t'.iat th« trooper v right in his hiw. By t the 19th Vie., 24 s. 21, every black- > : smith, wliitesmittmchorsmith. uailmaker, t or other person ÜB. : a providing it is 1 1 not undergrounil Cn a cellar, and having a t 1 door, window, or l-rture fronting or open- t ing into any or passage, and not : ; closing such door,; nilow, or aperture, or ; : not fastening the >tters so as effectually to exclude the ligttlithin one hour of sun- • set, &c., shall be file to a fine of not more 1 i than £2, &c." P 1 Starting upon Renunciation that emus | ; ! --p nrite f • kindness, and become 1 A .fc iectly tame, bift,mewhat mischie .-ous, [ the/lii'erwie 6V<I:(ST ves the following case 1 in point:— district takes a ; peculiar delight horses and cattle ; for a run of nine riil or so. Its mo-.Je of s starting a horse is thi ; The e'.i •, finding a 1 liorsc tied up to a fe-e, walks up gently, ; looks al' iver, pokes i head over the saddle, then bends down aboi the fore legs, when it suddenly makce acl-t with its beak at the facc of the horse, hich jerks its head , back, b.-eaka the brie, and bolts, with the emu striding afteit, until both cry ' a ■ ' " r Lovers of pork «ri read the following glowing account wrQi onie interest. It is clipped from the V"ja 011 Saturday afternoon a grand indh ' pigs passed through Bega on the way to il slaughteiing yards » at Warragubra. The :ob mustered abo.it \ 1000 strong, with scant yan inferior auimal 3 in the lot." It was a to be remembered • i/i see that dense moyii; herd, most of them 2 rolling fat, and as some,no remarked, it was - the most valuable drr*v<that had ever passed -■ through the town. 'IVng them at the low 2 average of £3 10s pa hewl, the thousand i. represents £3500, eijuiln value to /00 head b of cattle at i's per he;id Mr. Allan informs 1 us thai he will use a pa-nt steam apparatus • for trying out the lartlthis season. AN >th 2 this arrangement the da of " burning is b obviated, more lard can , e got from the pig, • and a pure, first-class fificle is turned out, x which is certain to t'junand the highest 5 market rates." .