AUSTRALIAN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 138, 2 July 1872, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN.

A hotel with 175 rooms is about erected at Queenscliff.

Taming alligators is a favourite » some parts of Queensland.

A Sydney husband has obtained flfo mages from the seducer of his wife.

Immense and very destructive floodj taken place in Tasmania, and life has lost.

A large proportion of the criminals ij Melbourne Gaol are between 1G and m of age. At Port Lincoln, South Australia children in one family died in ten dan diptheria. .

Some blue and white gums 00 feet in have been discovered in the forest near chelsea, Victoria.

An ex-constable named Murphy ha« tempted to murder Inspector Ximenes i Melbourne police. The great organ in the Melbourne 1 Hall is expected to be ready for use s the middle of July.

Mr John Richard Tindale, for many a squatter in New South Wales, shot hj at Newtown, Tasmania.

Mr John Davies, proprietor of the Men died at Hobart Town suddenly,—the e being serous apoplexy. There are 271 miles of railway u traffic in Victoria. Their total cost of, strnction has been £9,000,000. _ Six prisoners, including "Captain SJ light," or Scott, escaped from BallaratGj but two were afterwards recaptured. Owing to the increase in the numfe liares, hare soup is now a common dist Ballarat, where it is called "puss in boo; The Melbourne Corporation has constra on the bank of the Yarra, a bath 120 ft (50 ft, and increasing regularly in depth! :> ft at . ne end to 7 ft at the other.

total cost of the work is about £ISOO. According to the testimony of Mr J. Le man, who lias a couple of double-fin ploughs at work in the Smeaton dist Victoria, he is getting " the same amoui labour done for jj'3 per week, which in mer seasons, and with single ploughs use cost him £9." ' - '

A shocking incident lias occurred at Drotmore Station, near Seymour. A went to bed with a candle and a novel, in the morning the outbuilding she ski was discovered to bo burned down, audi a few charred remains could le found of poor victim.

One William Watson was chanjeil at ; §e Jurat with uttering a bad half soverign. M was committed for trial, and was tntd s condemned. After ho was scut to prisons police thought of testing the coin, whereon the jeweller pronounced it to be genua Everyone, judge and all, had taken'"then point in dispute for granted. Sir Hercules lvobinson, the new Covers of New South Wales, is desaribed by d SU'lncy Empire as follows :—" The tiers,!. appearance of Sir Hercules is one that a presses itself very favourably. He is raft stout, and has an erect carriage and soldier. bearing. His age is forty-eight, but he led considerably younger with his hat on. Ti. is not so much the case when uncovered,; he frequently was last evening, in respos to the acclamations of the multitude, as it: then seen that he is partially bald. He lot* like a man of discipline, one who is acci turned to give directions and be obeyed there is much of firmness and deteumnatifi in his face. In height he is about slt 10» and wears neither heard nor moustache." On the 4th June John Conn washamedi Bat-hurst Gaol. New South Wales, for* murder of an old woman named Avelineß tier. The Bathurst Times thus describes* scene at the execution :—" When thebodj passed through the drop the spectators« course expected to see it swing underneatl, but what was their horror to see the trunk, completely severed from the head, fall in tk pit below, while the head was left dangling in the noose—a terrible and ghastly sigit Death, of course, was instantaneous. The blood now ran in a narrow stream from* head suspended above, and, upon approaching the edge of the pit, the upper portiond the body was seen to partially raise itself ! « convulsive slmdderings two" or three times before it ceased to move, the blood pouriiß in streams from the neck. The effect of * scene was sickening in the extreme ; but* soonaspossiblethetrunkandheadwereputiM coffin and removed. The cause of the ten* catastrophe was ihe want of any allowance, on the part of the executioners,'for the a? and attenuated frame of the convict, Fartrt great a fall was given, and though it niigW be merciful as a rapid and painless mode a taking life, the result was certainly most» Voltblg."