PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 186, 3 June 1873, Page 6

PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL

In Victoria the postage on newspapers ha >cen reduced to one halfpenny., The yield of the Caledonian claim for tli reek ending May 28 was 400 ounces. Kahat, the Sandhurst sharebroker, hj?, >een sentenced to 11 years on the toads. It is rumoured that endeavours are hob mule to establish another newspaper in Tin jeka. A Gipps Land Magistrate, named Gros ,*enor, has been committed for trial on ; Large of perjury. Mr Browne, late proprietor of the Gulgon N.S.W.) Guardian, has been committed fo ;rial on a charge of per jury. On the Queen’s Birthday, when there ws t regatta at Port Chalmers, the number o passengers by rail from Dunedin was 7273. A scandal has occurred in the Public Work Department, Melbourne, relative to the off ;ers of the Department opening tenderers envelopes. In a ten-mile foot-race between Bird an< Sanson, in Melbourne the other day, Bin milled up lame in tlie 33th round. Sanso: received 500 yards start. Licenses for pheasant-shoo ing in the dis ;rict of Waikouaiti, during the month « Tune, are obtainable from the Provincia Treasury at a charge of 535. Mr Harrop, chemist, of Lawrence, swal lowed his false teeth, with the gold plate luring his sleep one night lately. He ha since complained somewhat of a pain in hi “ innards.” The story of a white woman said to hav, been found with the aborigines at Kepp Bay, N.S.W., is a complete hoax. It w probably based on the discovery of a tigun head washed ashore from an old wreck. The Switzers Mining Association has passethe following resolution. :—“After a carefn consideration of the propriety o* transferrin the management of the gold-fields to tli. General Government, this committee fails t. see at present wherein the country would bt benefited by the change.” A very laudable and praiseworthy move ment has been inaugurated by the minim manager and working men of the Ajax Company’s claim, Murray Creek, (Nelson), viz, the establishment of an hospital fund wind is to be contributed to at the rate of 2s. P c : man every monthly pay-day. A Nelson paper reports having been shim a fine specimen of iron stone from the range at Iliwaka in that province. The specials is being tested by a chemist in the town (. Nelson. The stone is said to exist in “in: mense quantities,” so if it, is rich the dis covery is a very valuable one. Mr James Scott, a Melbourne solicitor, In been refused his certificate of discharge t Judge Noel, because, prior to his insolvent he had, through a confusion of accounts, wpli al to his own use some £ls belonging t a client. His Hon/irhoVi that the violate of a fra4 con’d not 1 e overlooked. Teaclvng in Ta 'anaki would appear to ho most miserably paid oc mpation. The lb vincial Secretary recently stated that a cert; floated teacher “in one of our most flourisliia, agricultural districts” was receiving only nin shillings per week. The same gentleman sat that tlie teachers wore sometimes obliged “t----take out the school foes in wood and nob toes.” The divorce case of Villenouve Smith.i barrister, against his wife, and Armstwi. as co-respondent, has just been concluded" Melbourne, after six days’ hearing. Tk jury found that the respondent did not com mit adultery, as alleged ; but that the pef tinner had committed adultery with Alahe Johnson in New Zealand, and with Flore® Fliiian, and that lie had acted cruelly toward his wife. The ease caused a great scandal and the tables were completely turned o: Smith. The Nelson Evminy Mad. states that Si George Bowen has written to the effect tbs he misses the picturesque scenery of Nc Zealand, the Victorian scenery being flat an insipid. He will always regard New Zealai as the most, fascinating country he ever kaw Two pure-bred heifers, one and two yen old, bred by Mr Morton, of Derriuiut, Tit toria, were sold at the recent Svdue.y exli bition for £1250 : and a young bull, bred! the same gentleman, was sold for £7OO, am was considered the best beast in the yards' the exhibition. The breaking up of the drought in the Ahaura (West Coast) distrif was received with universal rejoicing by a! classes of inhabitants in that district. He 1 local paper says that “when the rain fe ! came, people might be seen walking aboc the streets getting wet through, for inert novelty, and enjoying the drenching as a t& luxury. It really seemed as if we had beet living in a beleaguered city, and the block#! had been suddenly raised, and people fe immediately as if they had something tod l ’- Storekeepers rubbed their hands with gl® and publicans proceeded to dust their glasses and looked pleasant and thirsty.”