Australia.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 4, 1 December 1869, Page 2 (Supplement)

Australia.

It is reportod that the owner of Warrior netted £II,OOO. Mr Montgomery's tour in Tasmania must have been a most successful one. His four nights in Hobart Town, it is said, netted £3OO ; while in Launceston and the townships ho visited, his audiences were correspondingly large. The announcement (says the Melbourne Arjns of the lGth instant) that Mr Redwood's thoroughbred racehorses Manuka, Peeress,, and Misfortune would be submitted to auction, attracted a largo number of persons to Kirk's Bazaar yesterday. Manuka is acknowledged by all judges to bo one of the most perfect shaped horses ever seen in Australia* and as Mr Red wood had previously refused several very liberal offers for the horse, it was thought that the bidding for the Maori champion ■would be unusually spirited; but after reaching 740 guineas, nobody seemed disposed to go beyond that price, and consequently he was retuned unsold. Peeress, the winner- of the Royal Park Stakes, was vihe next animal brought under the hammer, but she was. also sent back without changing though an exceedingly liberal price was offered for her ; and Misfortune, a small weedy mare, was likewise unsold. A pure Arab, of very high caste, but who suffered considerably by comparison with Manuka, was. then put up, but the bidding was. so spiritless and the offers bo small, that Hr-Tattersall was forced to knock him down at a very moderate figure, but we believe the horse did not change hands* Lancashire Lass, a sister to. Lancashire Witch, was ateo returned without finding a purchaser.—The Age, of the same date, says—"The New Zealand racehorse Manuka, has been purchased by Mr Petty, s>f M aribyrn-ong, who intends to fire him forthwith, and hs will probably yet bo seen measuring strides with our cracks on the course at Flemington next spring. ' The Sraythesdale correspondent of the Eallarat Svtr states that the Town Clerk of Smythesdale was horsewhipped there lately, by Mrs Jones* It appears that Mr Kelland (the Town, Clerk) went with an advertisement to the G'renville Advocate office,, and some conversation then took place between him and a Mrs Jones, who. bore a grudge against him in consequence •sf her husband having received some bad treatment in his business transactions with him (Mr Kelland). Mrs Jones got very excited, and at length applied a whip vigorously to. Mr Kelland s shoulders.. The belligerents came outside the building and on to the street, Mr Kelland partly defendhimself, and pirtly trying to wring the whip from Mra Jones. The lady at list, while molding on to the whip, fell on her knees, but still managed to. retain posses sion of the weapon. The Adelaide correspondent of the Argus telegraphs on the 16th inst. as follows : Public attention has been altogether absorbed to-day by the news of the arrival of the Gulnare from the Northern territory. She anchored at an early hour this morning. Mr Goyder, the surveyor-gene-eal, with a large number of men, landed and came into the city, looking remarkably well, though they had' passed so many months in a warms lattitude. They left tOO men at the sight of the proposed town ship under-the charge of Dr Peel, who will bo brought on. by another opportunity. Mr Goyder says the land is very good for stock ;. and cattle, though worked hard, did remarkably will, only one or two dvinc. Specimens of gold, iron, tin, and copper •ores have been found, and the mineral wealth of the country is likely to prove «ery extensive. One casualtv, unfortunately, occured to the party. The natives attacked a small company of surveyors and assistants. Mr Rennet, a draughtsman, was spearod, and: died of his wounds; another man was. seriously wounded,, but recovered.. A large mob of cattle recently arrived at Adelaide from-Carpentaria, having travelled overland. The Geelbnj Advertiser states that there-was an abundance of feed and water the whole way. As we announced some time since, the operation by Dr Reid on a man whoso leg had been fractured, and had nor. united, has had the effect of bringing to Geoloiig two similar sufferers, one from the Melbourne and the other from the Ballarat Hospital. In each case the bones had, from various reasons, becom? callous, ami would not unite, as is generally the- case. They have been operated upon in a. manner similar to that adopted in the first case, and are doing remarkably well, ami with fivery hope of being speedily fully restored. The method adopted,, it will be remembered, is to excite ihfiimmation in the bone By driving ivory pegs into it.— Geelonrj fcdoertiser. There cannot bo any question as to the nuisance that some squatters are subjected to-.by the number of men who are "on the xallttby," or travelling from station to shation ostensibly in search of employment. The owner of a station in the Western district writes to us as follows on the subject: —" A plan I am going to adopt, and' one Mint I think likely to put a stop., to tin •loufjig' system if carried out by rquatters and landed proprietors, is to charge all travellers ono shilling each for a'night's &>od and lodging, and then to hand" the gvoeeeds to some local charity."