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NEW SOUTH WALES.
Our exchanges date to the olst ult. We
make the following extracts :
Tile total area of land popularly known as
dummy selections which lias been forfeited,
for non-fulHlinent of conditions, during the
incumbency of office by the present Govern
ment, is acres, the amount nf deposits
forfeited being £63,674. Some of the land
will lie sold at auction, and some of it thrown
open again to conditional purchase. It is
expected that during tiie ensuing week
IOUJOOU acres more will be forfeited in pur
suance of the reports from the Commissioners'
Courts.
One of the oldest officers in the Govern
ment service died last week, Mr George
Langley, J.P., and C.P.S., of Paramatta.
For more thau !i0 years lie filled the office
which he held at the time of his death. Mr
Langley was in failing health fyr some
months previous to liis death, and was inca
pacitated from performing the active duties
of his office.
An inquest w:is held at the Sydney Infir
mary on the 2Sth ult., on the body of Wil
liam Favell, aged 62 years, who died at
the institution from the effects of injuries
received on the 3rd by being run over bv a
cart on the Cook's Uiver dam. Six wit
nesses were examined, one of them buiug
the son of deceased. The evidence showed
that the deceased was walking along the dam
in the direction of Ko^arah, when a cart oc
cupied by three men and driven by Robert
Hill caine up with him, and just as the cart
got abreast of deceased the horse shied at a
pool of water, mm,the cart going over to that
side of the road on which the deceased was,
one of the wheels knocked liirn down and
caused a compound fracture of the right leg.
The injured man was conveyed to the Infir
mary, where it was found necessary to am
putate the injured leg. He, however, was
uot able to survive the operation, and died
on the 26th.
The death of Madame Wallace Bushelle,
which took place suddenly on the 16th ult.,
has removed from our midst (writes the
Sydney Herald) one of our oldest and best
known musicians. The deceased lady was
the daughter of Mr Wallace, for many years
bandmaster of the 29th or Queen's Own Kegi
inent, and sister of the late Vincent Wal
lace, the eminent composer. The last named
having received the appointment of organist
at the Iloman Catholic Church of Tliurles,
and teacher of music at the Rosaline Con-
vent there, placed his sister under the charge
of the Sisters of the convent. At ten years
of age she was able to play difficult airs on
the violin, and possessed remarkable vocal
ability. This talent she perseveringly culti
vated, and those who remember Sydney
some 35 years ago, may recollect her appear
ance at public concerts in company with her
brother and Mr John Bushelle, the latter of
whom she subsequently married. At the
early age of 21 she became a widow, and,
returning to Europe with her brother, was
engaged by Mendelssohn to sing in the
"Elijah," at Vienna. After fulfilling a
series of engagements in Europe and America,
she again came to Australia about the year
1SG4, and settled here as a teacher of music.
The statistics of immigration for 1877
show that 6'OIS immigrants came from the
United Kingdom to Now South Wales at the
public expense, 1499 of them being children ;
and that the total number of those who paid
their own passages was 739-12G of these
being children. The nationalities of the new
comers are set down thus :-England and
Wales, 3GS9; Scotland, 418 ; Ireland, 1446;
other countries, 4G5.
The number of marriages registered in the
.colony last year was 4994, as compared with
4630 during 1S7& The total number of
births during 1877 was 23,857, and of deaths
OSGD, the preponderance of the national in
j-ease to the population being 13,982,
The Registrar-General estimated the popu
lation of the colony on 30th Jane last at
675,316-375,205 males, and 300,111 females
This is an increase on the half-year of 13,104
-7SS2 malc3 and 5222 females. The births
during the half-year numbered 12,127-G277,
males and 5S50 females. The arrivals by
sea numbered 19,91S-1-1,031 males (includ
ing 1S81 Chinese), and 52S7 females ; giving
a total increase on the population for tho six
months of 32,045-20,908 males and 11,137
females. Against this addition there is the
reduction by deaths and departures by sea
to be taken into uccount. Tho deaths during
the half-year numbered 5971-3472 males
and 2490 females. The departures by se.1
numbered 12,970-9354 males (including
13G3 Chinese), and 3416 females. The
arrivals by sea of Chinese exceeded the
departures by 521.
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