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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 145, 20 August 1872, Page 7

" It is really wonderful," the Kyneton Observer writes, "what a magical effect a little gold will produce on the public mind. On Friday night shares in the Tommy Dodd Company could have been bought ' for anything in the shape of coppers,' as the sharebrokers express it. At midnight on Friday the reef, what is supposed to bo the western reef, was struck. The sharebrokers and the knowing ones scoured the town on foot on Saturday, rode over the country, and set all the wires at work wherever shares w?re to be bought up. Many who were suffering from that sickness produced by hope deferred, and who were not on the qui vive, parted with their shares for only a trifling consideration. People are often caught napping. Men skilled in share-buying don't wear their hearts on their sleeves, or show their knowledge in their faces. They are pensive, childlike, and bland. One of our speculators who holds a large interest in the mine was at Sandhurst. A friend telegraphed,' Tommy Dodd struck the reef. Looks well. Mind yourself.' He had barely read these words when another wire came, stating, ' Can get 4d for Dodds. Have an order for 200. Have you any to sell !' The answer, we believe, was wired, ' Not for Joe.' On Saturday night the shares that might have been got 24 hours before for 2d each were worth from 12d to 18d each." Josh Billings says :—The hawk iz a karniverous fowl, and a chickiniverous one, too, every good chance he kan git. I hav seen them shut up their wings and drop down out ov the sky, like a destroying angel, and pick up a young goslin and sore aloft agin quick. I hav fired a double-barrelled gun into them, loaded with fine shot, and it had the same exilarating effekt on them that 4 quarts ov oats would have on an old hoss. I don't suppose that even hen hawks are made in vain, but 1 have wandered if just enuff ov them to preserve an assortment wouldn't answer.