The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-25 00:00:00

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THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELDS.

The accounts fromtolheitaAinustnreawliasnofgotlhdefilenldosstuepxtthottinhge
end of August last c
nature. Mount Alexander sent down 22,402 ounces to
Geelong in the last week of July, and in that week Bal-
larat sent 1,572 ounces. On the 3d of August the
Mount Alexander escort had 18,145 ounces ; and on
Monday and Thursday following the amounts transmitted
were 71,145 and 18,174 ounces, making a total of
107,384 ounces in the first seven days of August, and
from one locality ! The amount transmitted from Bal-
larat in the same space of time was 2,066 ounces, and
Dight's escort brought 34,676 ounces, so that a grand
total of 144,207, representing about 432,6211. were re-
ceived within seven days at Geelong.
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ounces from Ballarat, Mount Alexander, and byt Dight's
escort. On the 19th of August Ballarat st while
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with rations ; shepherds, 38/. ; hutkeepers, 30/. ; bul-
lock drivers, 50/., or by the week 11. 10o; .
. ,paenrdaonnn the .
roads from 3/. to 4/. ; farm servants, 5.
and 1/. 10s. by the week; bush carpenters, 2/. per week;
cooks for inns, 1/. 10s. to 2/. per week ; general ser-
vants, 40/. per annum, all including rations. Maid-
servants can have engagements at 24/. to 301. house-
maids at 23/., nursemaids 18/., cooks and laundressles,
24/., including rations.

SUICIDE FROM FEAR
was held Iwiec:by Mr.
Manchester, on Tuesda
Herford,OF STARVATION.—An inquest
no ocovrioonweroffotrhothbeodbyorooftifTho
John
a carter, aged 63, who drowned himself on
Monday morning. The old man had seen. better days,
but was now reduced to receive parish relief, and for the
last two years he had been accustomed to sleep on the
long settle in a beer-house kitchen. This shelter, how-
ever, was to be taken from him, for the landlord was
about to leave the house, and he had no other place to
go to ; he was, moreover, of such drunken habits that
his weekly pay of ls. 6d. from the union hadbeen stopped
by the relieving officer, who refused to give the ratepayers
money to a man whom lie had himself seen drunk three
times within a week. He gave him a note for the work-
house, but Heywood declared that he would not use it,
he would starve first ; and when his pay was stopped,
he said that if he had sixpence he would take some lauda-
num, and ba humbugged no longer. He was found is a
tub of water quite dead, his head and arms in the water,
and his legs nearly touching the ground, so that hi
suicide was Drownedetermined. The jury returned a ver-
dict of " himself in a fit of temporary
insanity-7