General Intelligence.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 131, 12 January 1877, Page 6

Gener a l Intelligence.

' '< *• ! '*-'--~ r ~ — : ';..». .■■;■* — : ;-,, ] „ ; ;"• Parliament has - been further , prorogued to thelSth April...;,, ... >„,- , .The' Victorian; revehue-for* the- year. sh(Avs 'ah'increase' of £250,000.- . a *.-, * A _•* A re^orthn's j bfi'en v made toths-police of fafc#6r;yrt&tf-p^tAhe-''"bojß at the Rariftwi£k J^ ■■■'--'» ••'•..■•.■• i-i.* .-.. Mr Reid;lW'been;a^ 'Minister of .Lands.-ai^ DrmondJMinister 'of Publjg Works. "'^ ' y I At.ithe.salecpf "&o%r^ and Herefords, at Colac, theither (ia^l

, AAA*.y:: r several purchases 'were made* ;fbr '-New*- *-* 'Zealand.* 7 ' '"/,_ '! .- ! 7' "*;7 - ! ■'"-__■•:» rf r/> i ASh c New. Southrw'ales A Govern merits AAA -has rec^iyed' adyice's/tliat'tlje^irst vessel': • with ! 7mtnigTan'ts leaves Imei'ica'ln : a"7 •few weeks. .7 ; : .'■" .. ■ * ,>,j .7 „.,,.. •_ ■".,-.'_ The Clerk'- .of a Road/Board -in ! tlie ;; • vicinitfy!,of. : Cjma^ r absconded- leaving .large*!' deficien ciei in . ; .' * his accounts. ..\ . ' ; ;I '7 ; i •' .-A-'riew joint-stock company Has, been floated in Auckland,; entitled " The : New *• - Zedarid' Lead, iand ';.Galvanised*7 lron ' • Works^Co,mpany. > (Xi,pi|e.d)3 .^ " ' ' ' ' /-At theWeljington^ M'OannV an telderly man, was sentenced <-* .- to -12 years' hard labour and 'two whip- - pin^s, for rape onayoung-'girlf --,->-. ..,-, .Two chi!dren;.M)rother .and, sister,- -.., • were killed, on the* 24tb i; . at Newcastle, A.. New South Wales, by gunshot wounds / caused ,bj;, a boy snappin^' J a' supposed' : ' ' empty gun at* .them.' '" ' ' " ' - '""' . The;''diphthena''wKich I '-'hns* so ! uii* .fortunat'elyyi.sited our city for* the past two months,- we^regretto say, is rapidly f assuming- the character of an epidemic. -.-, --.Wellington Times... ... : . ... .- . , „ The (General Government -have ap 1 pointed a commission. no inquire into the -condition of-.the Auckland -lunatic asylum and gaol. They have" proposed --to- make "trie^' g*a~6l Trior e sel f-supportino-*, • •and to utilis^e the Hospital and Asylum 7 Reserves. •"■■"•-. .--..; „ It- is" reported in Melbourne that-tho - . Great Queensland,' which' has' been' ' but • • •'■• 144 :days, is now posted at Lloyd's aa 'lost.- It is reported also 'that several ***-'• insurance companies' in Melbourne and Sydney received telegrams confirming- * the loss of the City of Seringapatam. .'■ Four thousand young* salmon have "' been cbnveyedTrom Napier to tiie Nga- * ruro River, with a loss only of seven. * ■ Four thousand more are shortly to be ' •< forwarded to the same place. As about 30,000' have been hatched, it will take *-■ sdaie 14 journeys to distribute them; *: - We (Guardian) understand oh good • ■ authority that Mr David Proudfoot, jointly with several large capitalists and* landowners, has promoted a line of railway from the Elbow to Gore. The : line will open' np one of tbelargest and most • valuable' tracts of land in New Zealand.' ' ■-. The survey is being proceeded with; -A and the works will be commenced withbut delay. -' ...-.-. The Hbii. George M'Lean will be the New, Zealand delegate'at the Cable • Conference, to be held at Sydney next month! '" It is understood that the.'Governmeht are adverse to any laro*e -expenditure on behalf of a second cable, •" and will decline to commit the Colony to any outlay until Parliament has an opportunity of expressing' its will. •'■■■-■■■■ - It is reported that a well-known and long--e-stablished ■ medical* * practitioner ■-* in Christchurch has been served with a j. notice" "of action- for damages; consequent upon alleged negligence on his •; part, whereby a lady patient of his lost her. life. , The damages claimed amountto no less a sum thau ! £2000* Con- ; sideroble sensation has been* produced - by the announcement of thissuit, which, ' . if brought before a jury, cannot fail to disclose matters of peculiar interest. • The Hospital authorities of Melbourne are experiencing* trouble with the Roman Catholic clerg*y,* much- after < the style that bur Benevolent Institute* and Reformatory met with a little time -... ago. The' allegation made by Archbishop Goold against the matron ofthe Melbbtlrne Hospital was' that she dis- • charged Kbman Catholic nurses principally in consequence of their religion, but the committee, after two long meetings, were- not able to discover the s'igh'test foundation for the statement. The Argus says that the intolerance of the Roman Catholic^ has'now reached Bi:ch a height in -the Hospital that the priests have ordered the Catholic patients .not to receive flowers from Protestant! visitors. "*' :

•Yankee notions, says the Guardian, are being carried out in a 1 thoroughly, practical manner at Guthrie and Lar-* nachs factory. One of the latest* introductions is a rake-maker— iti ot n mischievous machine for making larrikins, hobbledehoy?, or adult vagabonds— but an instrument by which- rakes of every size and shape toi* gathering straw, .smoothing garden plots, or generally assisting the' farmer br florist-, may be made in a few minutes. The machine is pprfrctly docile and tractable : all ie needs is to be -fed with some rough fragments of wood, and it will turnout implements by the dozen of the most handsome/construction imaginable. The--process adopted . by the fairies of old times is nothing to what can be-done -.- -by this new invention., A piece of rough timber is' fastened in a kind of Tyce, twisted about with the velocity of greased, lightning, and instantly appears . with its'edges'rouhded beautifully.. The ends of the 'i-ake are then-formedand . morticed, a* few little chips "of 'wood are .-; converted 'into 'teeth,-*and irifour or five minutes' a fir§t-felass' : agricultural imple- -. . ment is turned •oi%--poJished*.. and comphited, As jnight.he. expected, these. , Colonial-made .implements, constructed .' out .of* good .sound .timber, ' fresh , and '" elastic, are, driving, the imDorted'oiit'pf the marketif * Buckets, tubs, .and dairy, "'' utensils, with whichthe-prison.Jaboij-r of, the iTnited-i States* used to. flood, the Co* Al', lonies/are at'Qength being superseded.,, li; by Colonial-made and we are ...-.- .glad 4 . to perceive that the manufactures :6fVa ( 'firm which keep§ hundreds of men .-. and r yb : uths;in''thi^ other parts' As^fiolop^in'^bnstant employment, "'■ grje^dingj ajwido and;extt3^sive'sale all .bver\t_he J ..PrqYj|hceV ,, '.,