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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 32, 22 June 1870, Page 6

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MELBOUHNE. IP The English mail steamer was signalled i from Adelaide at 11 a.m. on the 4th inst,, I and the mails arrived in Hobson'a Bay at 1$ 9 a.m. on the sth. |b Mr Patrick Macdonald, Geelong, i 3 in- IS solvent. His liabilities are estimated at I e £29,000. j Mr Callaghan, hotelkeeper, Swanston- \] street, has been charged with fraudulent | bankruptcy. ; r A new omnibus company has been 1 l started. | e The Port Philip Farmers' Society has ) t been wound up. The North-Eastern Railway operations | * will begin this month. " . ' The Mayor has voluntarily undertaken ! ' the entire pecuniary responsibilitiesMonnected with the opening of the Townjffall, ' and has refused aid from the Corporation. 1 A movement has been commenced to present,h,im with a valuable gold collar. Mr. J. G. Knight has projected an Intercolonial Exhibition on self-supporting principles. N ' s Mr Henry, station-master at the Spencerstreet railway station, has been suspended on a charge of drunkenness. / Mr Charles Mathews terminated a hignly successful engagement at the Theatre Royal on Friday, the 3rd inst. Mr Thomas Parsons, barrister, formerly of Dunedin, has drowned himself. His friends and the police received letters from him stating his intention, and pointing out where his body would be found. The Intercolonial Conference meets in July. Power, the bushranger, was arrested in the King River Banges on Saturday, June 4. He was run down by Superintendents Nicholson and Hare and Sergeant Montfort, and was lodged in Wangaratta watchhouse. SYDNEY. The floods have subsided at Goulburn and Araluen, and little damage has been done.' The weather is now fine. The j Floods Committee are relieving urgent cases of destitution. Five persons resident in Raymond Terrace have been drowned by the upsetting of a boat. «i The Rev. Allan M'lntyre, of Manning River, is dead. Mr Harold M'Lean has been gazetted Sheriff. Bird, the English pedestrian, ha« been defeated by Campbell. ADELAIDE. J The Governor has presented a rnagnifi- j cent collection of Indian birds to the' Bo- 1 tanical Gardens. The Government have introduced a li- 1 beral land law. Mr Cottrell's motion in 1 favor of a bonus of £2OOO to colonial ma- I nufacture has been passed. " Captain Hart, the Premier, will reprc- 1 sent South Australia in the Intercolonial 1 Conference. . §j Three of the rioters in the late riots of 1 the unemployed have been sentenced to tAvelve months' imprisonment. The new bridge across the Torrens has ! been finished. LAUNCESTON. The action for libel brought by Archdeacon Reiby against Mr Bloom-field, causes great sensation here. The defendant had charged the plaintiff with making improper overtures. The jury, after a trial of threo days, returned a vevdict for the defendant.

~- b rom a private source, the Wellington Advertiser learns that, on the. arrival of j the Luna at Opotiki, the Hon. the Defence t Minister caused the whole of the..native* | and militia to be struck off pay. The re* doubts a"e at present garrisoned by about' 60 of the armed Constabulary under Capt. Swindley. Native affairs at present re main in statu quo. We a'so lea-n that, on the return of the expedition under Lieu-tenant-Colonel St. John, the Defence ' Minister placed him under arrest, for some alleged indiscretion in native matters. We have not heard the cause of the gallant colonel's offence, but imagine it must have had its origin in that root of all evii, the \ "native difficulty." A correspondent writing to the Daily \ Times says : —" On Thursday evening at t about half-past six o'clock a strange phenomenon was seen near Popotunoa. It was unusually dark at the a heavy drizzling rain was falling. Suddenly there was a light, but from what catise it would be difficult to say. The road, f&.ces, and surrounding objects became distinctly visible. It evidently was not lightning, for the light lasted at least eight seconds.' It might be some fiery atmospheric meteor ' or fire-ball. Whatever it was, it made those who Avitnessed it feel that is was something of very rare occurrence." Holhway's Pills. —The most celebrated remedy in the world for the cu'-e of diseases of the Liver and Stomach. Edmund Alga, of Poi b Beaumont, C.G.H., was for a period of nineteen years in a state of complete mkery, being a. burden both to himself and his friends. He suffered so con- 1 j tinuously and so severely from liver complaint _JL' and a dijordered stomach, that he wr»3 constantly **■[ confined to h's bed for weeks together. The '\ doctors did h'tn no good, and bo therefore gave over consulting them. Nine weeks ago ho com. meneed usin * Holloway's Pi'ls, and he ha 3 written to Professor Hollo way j to acknowledge most gratefully that he is quite cured. Profes- '.[ sor Holloway hopes that the thousands of othe/s whi have tanefited vill now com* feiwßTd. 6