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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 36, 20 July 1870, Page 6

The receipts of the Suez Canal up to the y° v end jof April amounted to £77,000, * tell The Hobart Town Mercury says ; An idea of the number of rabbits that are coursing over the land in the districts of this island, may bo formed from the fact 1 . that three well-known Hobart Town gentle- 061 men, carrying a gun each, shot in two days an< at the Black Marsh Scrub, no less than 540 rabbits. One of the gentlemen alluded to counted sixty rabbits go into one hole. An Australian paper says that a young desperado, who proposed starting life as a s p ( bushranger, had hia career cut short in a eQ | very untimely, or rather very timely, • manner the other day at Wagga Wagga. A local paper relates that the fellow on ne Sunday week “ made his appearance with co a swag at the inn kept by Mr William £ o] Johnson, of Junee Reefs, and wished to purchase a revolver.. Mr Johnson ques- £ o] tioned the would-be purchaser as to the t)( . use to which he intended to apply the re- j ( volver if he got it, and he replied ‘he re- ot quired it to get money with.’ In reply w to the question he had any CQ he answered ‘"Y es, two.’ Mr Jqhnsoj ijin- re formed the youqg aspirant for tW gallows w that ‘ all the money ever made by bush- w ranging would not buy a revolver from p ( him for such a purpose.’ Seeing he had s p mistaken the character of his man, he „| coolly said, ‘ Well you need not say any- aj thing of what has occurred between us. a | It cannot do you any good to do so and o j| might do you some mischief.’ Mr J ohnson’s p, reply to this was, ‘ I consider it my duty a to apprehend you,’ and laid hold of the ni rascal, who managed to free himself and rush out, followed by Johnson, Some persons outside, on being called on by his f O , pursuer, arrested the runaway, and he was taken into Johnson’s house and secured, g His swag was found to contain some cles recently stolen from a waggon in tb, 11 neighborhood. The prisoner, who was re ® manded, gave the name of Arthur l)unn, f and avowed himself a cousin of the blood- ( 1 thirsty scoundrel who, as the last of Gilbert 1 s-nd Hall’s gang, forfeited his life upon the 1 scaffold about two years ago.”