GENERAL NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 161, 10 December 1872, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

I Miss Rose Evans is getting £IOO a week at | the Melbourne Theatre Royal. ! A locust plague in South Australia is causing great destruction among the crops. : Intensely hot weather has been experienced ; all over the Australian Colonies. : H.R.H. Prince Leopold was to commence studying at Oxford in the October term. A Miss Gamin won the Fairfax prize at : the University Examination in Sydney re- ; c'Cni’y. A hard-up individual in Ballarat the other ; day picked up a 270z. nugget among the road metal in the street. i There are now about 200 Chinese in Tas- ; mania. Two years ago, there was not one. | They are nearly all engaged in mining, i 180 Loudon policemen have been dismissed j for insubordination, arising out of a strike, j and the ringleaders are being prosecuted. I A young woman has died in the Melbourne ' Hospital from injuries received by her clothes being sot on the by some Chinese crackers : tired off by bo vs in the streets. The Ac Imiralty have selected a site at : Greenwich Hospital for the erection of a mei nntrial to the soldiers who fell in New Zealand wars. I The movement in Glasgow to erect a monn- ! ment to Burns by means iff' shilling snbscrip- : tions has made good progress. Upwards of 111,01)0 individuals have contributed their ! shillings. ! On the day after the r ice for the Melbourne ; Cup, complaints were made to the police by : about fifty people that they had been robbed of their watches and chains. In some instances the chains had been cut, so as to permit of the easier abstraction of the watches from their fobs, j It appears, says the Southland Xms, that j a considerable number of Mr Brogdcn’s i u navvies'’ are not entitled to the designation, inasmuch as they are profoundly ignorant of i the art of tilling and wheeling barrows, and i that in consequence several have been released from their engagement to serve the firm until they had worked out their passage money. The following amusing—and instructive—- ; telegraphic colloquy took place, one day last week, between a Dunedin merchant and a business man not far from the Arrow ; Qnesi tiou—“ Is there a waggon -road from the Arrow to Skippers ! How many miles ' Reply immediately." Reply- "Yes, if the waggons and horses have wings, and can do : the double-shuttle straight up 2IKM feet.”— : IRe/m/)/) Mail.

A sensational wager has just been made in the 1 Tilted States, where one Thomas J, Warren has la hi a thousand dollars to a hundred, that Sergeant Bates, a veteran of the Civil War, will not be able to carry a full sized American Hag through England from the Scottish border to the Mansion House in Londoii without its being insulted. A Home nnper says that Bates is coming over to attempt the feat, and is confident of success. A Brisbane piper, noticing the arrival of the Ontfi'i fn m Port Darwin, remarks that “out of two hundred and twenty men specially engaged to join the expedition under Air Patterson, we learn that only two were found possessing sufficient faith in the socalled Port Darwin gold-field to remain there. Tiie.se men were at their own request left behind, and they arc firmly resolved to prospect the_ country thoroughly before they return, From all that wo learn of tills supposed auriferous region, we are led to tiic Conclusion that there is net the slightest pros- ■ eat of anv payable alluvial gold-field being discovered in the Northern Territory, The geological aspect of the country does not in tiie least degree warrant any belief in its existence. Slate and granite formations pre-> dominate everywhere, and the whole country has been denude! of he revering, leaving t.V.4 pEniary r.-tekn r-'d ■ ’’