GENERAL NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 15, 15 October 1874, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

A* cannibal act, says a Dunedin Con* temporary was committed by a man named John Fargraves, at the Princes street Immigration Barracks, on an immigrant named William Noel, shortly after mid-, night of Saturday. During a disagreement between the parties, Fargraves wantonly bit a piece off Noel's ear. He was sub- • sequently arrested, and committed for trial. Ou Friday evening the friends of Mr. Thomas Redmayne, : ot Dunedin, entertained that gentleman to a social meeting in the Masonic Jftall oh the occasion of his leaving the Colony for California. Fifty rams were recent! v sold at Adelaide by auction, averaging L4O each, one fetching as high a& L 177. ■c^f^^^y^y^yy.y,... A man named Fit__?immons, an old re'si--dent at Okirita has been gored to death by two Wild bulls, and afterwards frightfully mutilated. '-^^-; : . T: ---^.^.---{^^?-'^^^-*rv:^--'. A period of only three years elapsed between a small number of perch being introduced into a Lake near Ballarat, and eighty tons of that fish having been hauled , out by the rod ef the angler. The Beaumont bridge is sufficiently advanced to allow foot-passengers to cross from one bank to the other, although some weeks will elapse before. the bridge will be rea-ty for ordinary traffic.---' Tuapeka . Times.' '■-&*>■■■. ' ' --"--..L . ■:,.■---- -.-_-.*««—--.. --=r Notthern' papers announce that Mr. Murray, M.lt.R., has purchased, from Mr. T. B. Gillies, land in the Piako district, to the extent of 12,000 acres. -EUferring to the Forest Bill, the * Greymouth Star' flays: — It may be rather a radical and extreme view to take of the case, but our own opinion is that a bush fire that would destroy a few million pounds worth of timber would be a blessing to the people of tbe West Coast. The following tenders were received at the Public Works Office, Wellington, for the Mataura contract of the Clutha and Mataura Railway : — Accepted: M'Manarain and Go. ; Invercargill, L 19,588. Declined : J. A. Rosi and Co., Invercargill, L 23, 187 *, Brogden and Son?' Wellington, L 24,00 8; W. 'F. Oakes, Wanganui, L 25,918 ; J. and N. Campbell, Invercargill, L 26,648 \ Matheson Brothers, Dunedin, L 27,703 : W. P. Pearce, t)unedin, L 27,922 ; T. M. Hardy Johnstone. Wellington, L 28.607; David Proudfoot, Dunedin, L 29,423; A. Hunter, Tokomairiro, L 29,73 6; James Abbot, Dunedin, 1.31,367 ; A. F. Dawson. Invercargill, L 34,000. At the Champion Intercolonial Ploughing Match 42 ploughs were at work. The single furrow prize was won by Ross, a Victorian. Mr Geors-e Butcbart, on the charge of forgery, at Melbourne, haß been acquitted on the pie-*: of insanity. Messrs Yogel and Russell have arrived at Sydney, but nothing is yet settled as to the Californian mail service. It is under the consideration of tbe trustees to open the Melbourne Public Library and Museums on Sundays. Sir James Martin claims to he sworn in as Acting Governor of N". S. Wales and has brought issues before the Supreme Court. A" boy of 12, resident in the Huon, Tasmania shot dead his brother, aged fc, for refusing to drive some cows. Mies H. Sheppard (Mrs Hallom), who«e s husband is now with the Allen Opera Company, is dead and buried, not having survived her confinement. She is much mourned and her funeral was a large one. It fs suggested to rise a memorial to her, and the "Argus" has undertaken to receive subscription?. . * . Petitions still continue to be pres&pted in the House of Commons for a new trial for the " Claimant," signed by many thousands of people in different parts of the country. The coat oF arms (says the 'Wellington Tribune ') of the New Zealand Shipping Company, which is put on the stern of tbeir vessels, reprfsents a Maori and a missionary contemplating each other in a weird cannibalistic manner, which is by no means fascinating. The 'Grey River Argus' notifies the early departure of Mr and Mrs Bun ten (Miss Aitken) for Scotland. Miss Aitken intends to make a professional tour throughout America, on their way home. Advices from Leyuka state the annexation of Fiji is completed. The British flag was floated for the first time on the 3rd inst. The bonos of a moa, sufficient to make a complete skeleton, excepting tbe-lower jaw, have been found iv a land slip at Mararekakaho. Charles Dyer has been, sentenced to ! death at Auckland, for the piurder of Eliza [ Battersea. When leaving the dock,, be pointed at the constable wljose evidence convicted him, and said, V That man is my murderer." tie protested thatihe occurrence was accidental. . The first piece of woollen cloth manutured in Tasmania was lately sold for L*2 a yard. The total of the sale amounted to -L 143. A survey party (says the 'Tuapeka Times') have arrived frpm the Provincial Engineer's office, Dunedin, to lay off the; railway line from Lawrence to. the Beaur mont. They; will no doubt complete the .survey asfar as Roxburgh beforeretumjng •to town. „.,.. A memorial tower to^brahamLincolnj the late President of the United' States is about to be erected in -London." The fact 18 looked upon with considerable interest in America, where '■ . the feelings which animate the subscribers , to t tbe ; memorial , are properly understood. . ... The great bridge, acrofs the -Mississippi ait St. .Louis, costing nine pillion; dollars,' was formally opened recently, ; with imposing ceremonies: This Bridgets the cost-; liest in the United State-*, and hasv been';, five years |n bnilding. ! The' shares ' are .chiefly held in England/ . ' , At (the StudiHorse Parade or Walking BhowV held ;at Christchurch (recently, there were fifty- three entries, being four.in ejs'r . cess of the pref ipus year. r .Of these .there were three imported thprough-bred, .seyen. ,colonial bred thOTpugh-bredß,.,nine^.rbad-sters and carriage ; • horses ] eight .imported draught?, ; - four ppnies, H and twenty-two colonial bred draughts: The list included many new. candidates for stud .honors.?'-' , About a hundred immigrants ■: (says the - •Guardian ' -of \.Saturday.),^were yesterday forwarded Jby the.Wang*nui to Invercargiil, .and 7 thirty!. will -he, sent t6, Tokomairiro, f • which; together >yith 'those ,who have, succeeded iin obtaining employment- -at the -Barracks, will nearly make up the number .brought put_ by the Christian M'Ausland. ,