GENERAL NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 233, 28 April 1874, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

of tho Ballarat Bta rewrites of a most miraculous escape of a child of Mr Andrew Morris, miner, of Btieglitz. The child, only three years old, fell down a shaft 250 feet deep ; and the most srfrions of its injuries was a broken arm. IThe Tarnut correspondent of .the Quhdagai Times relates that a few months ago a model temperance society was established by six inhabitants, each of whom signed a guarantee ..to abstain from all alcoholic drink for a twelemonth, and as a proof of his bona fide, deposited a promissory note for £lO in the treasurer’s hands, to be forfeited if he failed to keep his vow., , But though the spirit may be willing ,to resist spirits, the flesh is often weak, and the weather of late has been exhausting and thirst-provoking. We are informed that within the past week two of the members “ fell”—that we are informed is the proper plirase—and were mulcted in the sum of £lO each, which they at once handed over to the treasurer of the association. The more temperate brethren therefore received a dividend of £5 each, realised in a period of two months. ’ * ,

The Northern Territory Times reports : “The passenger list of the Tararua contains the name of the Right Reverend Bishop Bugnion. of the Greek Church, who has arrived for the purpose of making enquiry as to the taking up of large tracts of suitable land for the occupation and employment of emigrants, who, the rev. gentleman states, are intending in a short time to leave the Moldavian and Wallachian provinces of Russia, in order to found a settement in this part of the world. It is to be hoped that the visit will be a successful one, as there is plenty of room here for any number of industrious communities.”

The following singular circumstance is related by the Geelong Advertiser “ A cat belonging to Gunner Millies, of the Geelong artillery, had recently an addition to her family. Matters feline rolled along smoothly enough, till about a fortnight ago a maternal Mauritius monkey, which-the gunner had introduced to his establishment, suddenly adopted a remarkable fondness for two of the kittens. In vain puss endeavoured to win back her own, but the monkey, a usually docile creature, has repelled all attempts on the part of the cat to win. back her olispring, and may now be witnessed assiduously nursing the little creatures.” Jane Kirby, better known as Jessie Holt, (for some time a resident in this district,) was sentenced by Mr Bathgate, in Dunedin, to three months’ imprisonment the other day, having been charged with having no lawful means of support. “ Snyder” has his say about the Carandinis as follows “ The three Misses Oavandini are phantoms of delight; likewise Madame Carandini, all but the phantom part, which couldn’t be expected or looked for. I like Mr Gordon, and should like him better if he wasn’t always singing about shipwrecks, and churchyards, and graves, and sextons, and snowstorms, and gathering in dead bodies, which must be anything but delicious to contemplate, leaving out the departmental work of the gathering in. I don’t go to concerts to bo made uncomfortable, and to be reminded in double-bass tones that the time is not far distant when I shall have to ha gathered in myself And then, because I have taken a middle seat in the front row, Miss Fannie comes on to the front, and fixing her eyes upon mine, says, right before five hundred people, “ Did I not love thee V ’ A good many girls have told me this sort of thing in my time, but they didn’t go blurting it out before company.” James Hayes, who was lately sentenced, at Hokitika, to two years’ hard labour for conspiracy to defraud, is the storekeeper who a year ago asserted that he had been stuck up and robbed of a quantity of gold purchased for - the Bank of New South -Wales. The Rank brought a charge of larceny, but abandoned it.

The Register informs us that at the hearing of a case at the Warden’s Court, Stafford, on Wednesday last, in which some Chinese were defendants, one of the witnesses, on being asked his name, gave it as “ Dam You.” The order was therefore given, “ Dam You, get into the box,” to the "no small astonishment of some of those present in Court. We may mention that another of the Celestials present rejoiced in the euphonious appellation of “Boots On.”