PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 139, 9 July 1872, Page 6

PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL.

Oranges are being very successfully gu in Nelson. ' 0

Krohman’s claim at Tambaroora is pro? richer than ever. Dr Carr is at the Thames, experimenj with “Laughing Gas.”

The snow has been from three to four! deep on the roads in the Grey Valley. A Pearl Fishery Company is about to started in Auckland, with a capital of £55 A new magazine, to be called the C'u Gcuctte, is about to be published in Auckla The General Government will introdus Consolidated Goldfields Act dining the cs ing session of Assembly. A number of valuable swans belonging the Wellington A.climatisat.on Society, k been destroyed by dogs. “Captain Moonlight,” the Egerton bi robber, (one of the gaol-breakers at Ballar has been retaken, with two others. A soap manufactory has been establis at. Oamaru, and another brewery is also to added to the industries of the place. A great yield was lately obtained fro® Daylesford mine, in Victoria. 3l>i) ounce gold were got from twelve tons of stone. An immense tiger-shark, fifteen feet hj was captured a few days'ago at the Ka’ikm the girth of its carcase was as great as that] a horse.

During a late trip of the s.s. Phoebe ft Nelson to the Manukan, a meteoric sj burst so close to the ship that fragment! it came on board. American ludopendance Dav, the 4th July, was allowed to pass over in Dane without any celebration. A few flags al denoted anything unusual. Mr JR. A. A. Slierrin, lately of the Can Flange, is about to begin prospecting beta Tuhua and Tanranga. Pie expects to rect aid from the General Government. Great excitement prevails throughout! tori a regarding electioneering matters, i disgracefully rowdy scenes are reported have occurred at election meetings. Two eases of small-pox have occurred Auckland since the arrival of the Nebn from San Francisco. News from Hoad states that the disease has also broken there.

Diving the year ending March 31, IS

at Coromandel, 475)7 tons of stone w crushed, from which were,. yielded 21,S ounces of gold,—being an j vfmago of w 12dwts. per ton. ; Tim Provincial Council Vr _•« olson Invei thor.sod the immediate oi tramway from, the Brunner coal-mine 0 ibdeii, pending the completion of then way to Creymoi.th. in New Zealand, it is calculated that tk is one magistrate (or J.P.) for every! m-n, women, and children. While in I t >ria, th ere are under CO ) justices of peace, in this Colony there arc 825. Mr Ridley, formerly manager for Mr® togist, brewer, of Hokitika, has been * d in tally killed at the Hauhau tramway. I hj irso bolted down a cutting and fell, rolls

' over him. He leaves a wife and six childre Mr Friborg of Napier, who was sent Scandinavia as an immigration agent, is! turning on account of the Swedish Govei ment requiring a deposit of £SOOO, to beft feited should the hopes held out to emigre i not be fulfilled. It is believed that theeffi of this will be to stop Scandinavian iranib tion.

tion. IS icholls and Lester, the Parramatta ris murderers, have been executed. Both them confessed their guilt, acknowledged! justice ef their sentence, and expressed hope that young men would take wai* and prolit by their sad example. Lesters that the news of his untimely end would the death of his mother, who resides in® land.