A strange story of a child living after its scalp was completely gone coined from the lUvorina Country. A tree had fallen on a little girl and fractured her scalp from ear to ear, and it had to bo removed. She got over it all, and seems quite lively. Her head is carefully bandaged,

A girl about eleven or twelve years of age j named Fanny Taylor (states the Argus), was brought before tho Melbourne Police Court by Mrs Smith under very peculiar circum stances. Mrs Smith, who keeps a small shop, told the Bench that on Christinas Eve the girl came into her shop for a shilling's worth of lollies, and as there was something strange about the girl she questioned her. The girl said she had been landed at the wharf that afternoon from the steamer Argyle, and that she had been put on board that vessel at the river Mersey by her sister-in-law, who haa told her that her mother would meet her at the wharf at Melbourne. There was, however, nobody to meet her at the wharf, and she would not know her mother if she met her, as it was many years since she saw her. Mrs Smith then kept tho girl, who was very poorly clad, iv her house ; and from further inquiries of the captain of the Argyle, it appeared that the girl was put on the vessel just as she was leaving Tasmania, and he did not observe her at all until they got to sea, or know that she was on board. No passage money had been paid |for her by anybody. Mr Stnrt asked Mrs Smith to take care of the girl further, and he would see she was paid for doing so, and he also directed the police to i make full enquiry into the case.
