AUSTRALIAN NOTES

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 28, 24 May 1876, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NOTES

An extraordinary defence has been | in by Messrs. Stevenson and Sons, w tive to the package^of hosiery alleged] have been surreptitiously passed--by tU in a case of wearing apparel. They sa that the duty was:paid 011 the* hosiery a previous occasion, some time ago. Su a mode of transacting business is at ,1s irregular, and- the authorities will insist] full and sufficient proof being 1 given befjj they accept the explanations I Advices have been Received from 3fd mea, via Newcastle, giving further pjqj culars of the survivors of the ship Isabel who were taken off the Bramtoii reefj the ketch Laura Lind. The lived on bird's'raw eggs and turtles duijj the whole time they were 011 the reef, 1 blood of the turtles being used as a sul| tute for.water. The three white'in( when discovered, were quite naked, | much tanned by the sun. The master: the Laura Lind also found the signboai of the Australia and Maryborough. 7:

The differences between the execnt of the late Alfred Anderson and " widow. lima de Murska, have been; ranged to the satisfaction of Messrs. Bh and Eiggall, who hold a power of attori from the lady empowering them to act: her behalf." • -■£

Dr. Norman, in a rifle shooting mi at Adelaide, made 110 points out ofj possible 112, at ranges varying from J to 600 yards. The mutiny on board the immigrati ship Strr.tliearn was not very seriqwvj police having arrested eighteenths! crew without any resistance. Sydney telegrams state that, on Mayj Davis, the American pedestrian, ran Gj fiths, of Windsor, 100 yards, the res being a tie. Hewitt challenges Watson run their match over again for £SOO a-sil .A Stawell telegram in the "Argi says :—" A crushing was cleaned up I day from the Oriental Company's claim| the 1,060fb. level. It yielded 48oz. sdi of gold from seven tons and a half'i quartz, the average being 6oz. Bdwt. 16g per ton. The lode was" only struck li Monday at the depth named, and this only a trial crushing taken out in J meantime. The great depth and the rip ness of the yield render the crushing 0 ceptionally important. The stone is d precedently rich, even for this distrij Nothing in connection with deep mini has occurred here for years inspire so much confidence." I A telegram was received from Parkea| day, stating that numbers of miners ffl returning freni the Burra Burra m| which is pronounced to be a deception. | The " Queenslander's " special corrfl pondent has visited the Hodgkinson ru4 and corroborates the previous reports! to its failure. There is no mining wards on the goldfield, and no police protection] and the want of mail communication i badly felt. The first case of Lynch h took place 011 Wednesday, when a res was flogged, and his property confiscated for stealing a digger's horse. He afterwards driven from the diggings. ® r.roceedings were held before a jury! twelve men, and were quite regular,! appeal being made to sixty re&poctab miners. The example was considers necessary..

During the present year consideral) alterations tire to be made to the lan fronts of the fortifications, to adapt tliej to mount rifled ordnance. This is in a® (lit"on to the. dock-yard defences, ups which £83,000 has already been spent - and -.vill require about £IOO,OOO to coii| plete. _ 5 Nelson papers tell a melancholy story of. young man, whose f;ur enslaver would n< have him unless lie possessed a crop ' whiskers. Upon representing his case § was induced by the daughter of a ing hotel-keeper to use a lotion winch sj l ! got prepare: 1 guaranteed to promote the W sfcute growth. Once cheek.-;, chin, and lif are bathed, and the patient beara 'his l*jj like a martyr, twice the fluid covered W seat of the' manly ensign, and sad groa® were wrung from him ; the fateful thult came, and hope was quenched by tortuKi It might be fun, or it might—be whatever it was the stony-hearted maiden? little joke consisted iif painting tfsc youth with lunar caustic. Hiding his vO<|j now on the friendly couch night»SJid day, ® mourns his inn ivy from the cruel d&t<4|j which the once despised time and a doctor are invoked to heal. . js9