AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2457, 30 October 1876, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

o Sydney, Octobor 10. At tlio Tamworth assizes, Michael Duffy and Johu Walsh, for murder, were acquiltcd. Patrick Hennessey, convicted at iho Wagga Wagga Circuit Court of the murder of Mrs Pilkington, at Gundagai, was sentenced to death. The now clip of wool is arriving fast, and tho first auction will take place nest woolc. Tho rovenuo receipts for tho quarter ending 30th ullimo exceed the corresponding quarter of last year by £214281. The total rcvcnuo was £1,215,264 Moro than half of this amouut was derived from land sales alone, irrespective of balances or interest derived from previous conditional purchases. The Customs yielded an incrcaso of £12,500, and of this £5,535 is credited to border duties. Tho cash balance of tho Government on the 30th September was £3,500,000, and the disbursements for the quarter were £1,533,688. : The foundation-stono of tho new Lands Office was laid to-day by tho Minister of

Lands, in the presence of a largo numbor of persons.—The Minister of Mines is to be entertained at a banquet at Mudgee. October 11, Armstrong (a law clerk), aud Aldridge (a clerk), have been committed for trial for a violent assault on James Baird Moffat, a newspaper writer. At a largo meeting it was decided to establish a children's hospital, Seven doctors have offored their gratuitous services.