LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1247, 7 September 1869, Page 4

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne, August 31. A ladies' velocipede race occurred at Oollingwood. The subscriptions for the released Fenians amount to £4,000. Mrs. Heir took a benefit at the Royal on the 20th, and returns to New Zealand. Four hundred Chinese sail for Dunedin by the next steamer. A proprietary college, with £150,000 capital, is to be established. A testimonial has been presented to Dr. Barker of a purse of sovereigns, and silver tea service. Mr. Falkner is seriously ill. A resolution to abolish State aid was car* ried. Count de la Eonciere, French Governor of j Tahiti, goes home by the next mail steamer, i Governor Weld sailed in the Alexandra for Freemantle. The Somersetshire arrived in Hobson's Bay on the 30th of August, from London, after a passage of fifty-eight days, with 200 passengers, ! Flour is rising, and is quoted at £15. j Sydney, i Mr. M'Kinlay is awesfed ,on $ second charge of embezzlement of £2,000. | The Daphine investigation is adjourned: sine die. A commission is appointed to take evidence regarding the slave trade in the South Sea Islands. In a boat race, twelve men of the Kearsage against ten of the Naval Brigade, took place and y;ss >vpn by the latter. Maize, 375. ' Teas dull at auction. .Grainger and crew publicly thanked by Governor Ferguson. A subscription commenced for testimonial to Grainger.

Sckxe in a Richmond Theatre,—The JUphnonH State Journal of the 13th May says an incident occurred last, night at the Richmond Theatre, during the performance of the "Forty Thieves" which proves beyond a doubt thai; the people of Richmond are " thoroughly reconstructed and Americanised." One of the actors, during a medley song made up of nursery rhymes, arid odds and ends, happened to sing, when it came to his turn " The star-spangled banner, long muy \i .wave." Ere ho had com pin ted the line, there were hisses ironi different pas^s of the house, whereupon Bishop caught upihe'relrain fronj his brother actor and .added, " O*er AfribV burning Bands," which was vecejyed wi,th the n^Qst' i deafenirig'appiau9e"from all parts of the house, Jong-continued and enthusiastic. It wns encored, and the same scene re-enacted.

A Week's Work is Birmingham.— X week's wort in Birmingham in iis aggregate results is something .wonderful. It comprises the fabrication of fourteen millions of pens, six thousand bedsteads, seven thousand guns, three hundred millions of cut nails, one hundred millions of bntlous, one thousand saddles, fire millions of copper ov bronze coins, twenty thousand pairs pf spectacles, six tons of jmpier mache ware, £30,000 tyorfih of jewellery, four thousand miles of iron arid steel wirp'j ten tons of pins, five tons of hairpins, hook 0 and eyes ''and eyelets, one hundred, find thirty thousand gross of wood screivs, live hundred tons of nuts, screw-bolts, spikes and rivets, fifty tons of wrought iron hinges, three hundred and fifty miles length of wax for vestas, forty tons of refined' «iet;il, forty tons of German silver, one thousand dozens of I fendera, three thousand five hundred bellows, ji thousand roasting jacks, one hundred and fifty sewing machines, Sight hundred tons of brass and copper wares, besides an almost endless multitude of miscellaneous articles, of which no statistics can be given, but which, like those enumerated, find employment for hundreds and thousands of busy hands, and are destined to supply the manifold wants of humanity from China to Peru.— Engineer. IJojJjOway's Ointment and Piils.—lVTot many years ago some ulcerations and diseases of the joints pladed' lh' peri) the affected limb whose loss was recommended to spare 'the risk of life— now the discovery of these noble remedies haa' made the cure pf the worst maladies no longer a matter of -doubt, ; Holloway's treatment preserves the condemned limb, and in its course of cure improves the general health and vigor of the frame. Holloway's Ointment and Pills heal all sores and ulcerations, and extirpate scrofula sores. Ulcers, bad legs, scrofulous discharges, swollen. or gathered glands, contracted sinews, enlarged joints, rheumatic and gouty concretions are readily remediable by the proper and persevering application of these cooling, healing, and purifying preparation? which are as powerful as they are harmlfaa.~JJsvt, "■" '' ''■ . •