LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. MELBOURNE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 863, 14 August 1879, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. MELBOURNE.

July 29. The steeplechaser tied Iron was sold to-day for 100 guineas. The Catholic education * question is still being strongly agitated m the churches. J)r, Backhouse, at Sandhurst,

today, m calling a meeting of Catholic electors, said that a perfidious Legislature had passed a robbing Acij and asked them to deny^God and religion. Mr. Findlayson, who was murdered, was about to leave for England, his post as secretary to Hobson's Bay Railway Company having become vacant through the transfer of the line to the Government. The Treasurer"of Victoria proposes to spend £85,000 out of the £3,000,000 loan m the erection of new schoolhouses. A seaman from the City of Bombay, at the Heads, jumped from the vessel to swim ashore, and was never seen again. It is supposed he was devoured by a. shark. , ■••"■■•, What may be termed an extraerdmary sight is to be seen by 1 travellers ' on the Malsbury Road. A short distance this side of Sorter's Junction Hotel is a tree which has evidently been killed by lightning What makes the tree an exception is the fact that fully 100 dead magpies are hanging by their claws from its branches'. ■■•■•«' John Winter, an old blind man, was burnt to death this morning, m an old shanty situated m Mctntyre Lane, near' St. Francis Church. The shanty was burned down, and the charred remains' of the old man were found m the debris. Two dogs were also roasted to death. There is no doubt that the bed, which was m close proximity to the stove, caught tire, and Winter, who wa3 about 70 years of age, was unable to escape m time. ■;...'., , -. . Yesterday afternoon Constable McHenry, stationed at Bennall, was accidenally shot by another, constable named Keane. The latter was holding a Spencer rifle, loaded, when it went off, and the -bullet struck McMenry, and entered his shoulder* He was brought to Melbourne Hospital, where he now lies. William Boardman, manager of the Antimony Company, was found dead m .Bouverie-street on Saturday.' Hispocket had been rifled, and his coat put on reversed. It is said that deceased had a considerable sum of money on him. The inquest has been adjourned for a week.