AUSTRALTAN-NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4489, 3 April 1876, Page 3

AUSTRALTAN-NEWS.

SYDNEY, March 16. Towards the close of the discussion on the Education Bill this morning, Mr. Forster, member for the northern goldfields, called Mr. Cameron, member for West Sydney a liar, and later on Mr. McElhone accused Mr. Forster of voting while "beastly drunk." Mr. .Parkes,. r after the division had been taken,' said that for fourteen-years past he had been doing all he could to secure a settle ment of the education.question, but as he had found gentlemen who came into the House as avowed friends of denominational schools turn traitors to those schools, he considered that he was released from any further obligation to assist in the maintenance of the present system, and that he should feel it his duty to take whatever course the extraordinary division on the second reading of the bUI might seem to him to direct. ;,. . March 20. A child named Bell was burned to death at Marrackville this p morning, through the upsetting o£ kerosene. March 21. U A lunatic, who escaped from Gladesville Asylum several days; ago, was recaptured this morning while attempting to throttle another man. MELBOURNE,; March 17.

In commemoration of St.'Patrick's Day, a procession took : place this morning. At dinner last night, Sir Gavan Duffy responded to one of the toasts. -He spoke principally of his experience in Ireland. Many of the State schools in: the .country districts are closed,. owing to. scarlet fever.. Two of the fc'u matra ' passengers have been 'fined in small penalties for refusing" .to submit, to vaccination. A forty-three ounce nugget has been found at the Norfolk rush. The Government have consented to give: pound for pound subscribed up rto £1000, for sending a rifle team to Wimbledon and Philadelphia. A preliminary meeting was held at the Town Hall, this afternoon, to make arrangements for collecting subscripi- tions. ■'- Mr." W. J. Clarke has given £100. The Durham fell in with the schooner Efrii-; lius, bound from Lagos to London, the crew suffering from fever, and reduced to a most: pitiable state j assistance was rendered. One of the steerage passengers committed suicide i •by drowning. A serious fire occurred at Sandridge oh the 16th, through the accidental upsetting of a kerosene lamp. The shops of Mr. Alexander Kerr, bootmaker, a-.-.l Mr.! Edward Lee, grocer, were both fatally! destroyed, with their contents. The damage: is estimated at about £1200, and is covered; by insurance in the New Zealand and Im- ■ perial Companies. — -

| -:- BRISBANE, March 21. Official advices, dated Junction Creek, received today, stated that Mulligan's party had arrived at Cooktown, and had discovered a new goldfield; They- brought in some splendid specimens, and; the discovery is likely to turn out a lirge rich field. Good alluvial anl rich'reefs hare been found. It is higher ap than any of the present diggings, and is said tope on the Hodgkinson -River, 160 miles from Cooktown. There is * good, road for drtyi iot. Mulligan's party .will not disclose th»wh»re»bouts of the field until thsy have made their own arrangements. .. ADELAIDE, March 21. ; The Ministry resigned at noon to-day, and i the Governor sent for Mr. Boucaut, who has' undertaken th» task of forming a new Minis-! try. Three man, named Joknion, John i Jenkins, and Augustus Jenkini, are supposed, to have been, drowned 'on ..Saturday, 'oa' Yorke's Peninsula. Portions of the boat and' the men's slothing have been found, but) the bodies are missing. The Jenkinses are i sons of the Eev. Mr. Jenkins, of near Brigh-' ton, England. HOBART TOWN, March IS. • Some members of Mr. Page's family; living at Newton have had a narrow escape! from death br strychnine poisoning. Two | persons suffered severely, but timely reme- ; dies were user 1 . It transpired-that a boyj engagdas water upset a bottle of strych-i nine in ,the stare room, and some got into! the table salt. I i