LATEST INTERCOLONIAL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 312, 3 November 1875, Page 6

LATEST INTERCOLONIAL.

Melbourne, October 23rd. It is alleged that a mock marriage was performed in Collingwood, by the Registrar. Steps are likely to be taken to inquire into the matter.

On the passage of the Great Britain from England, Robert Bright died of typhoid fever.

A boat was capsized off Sandridge, containing five men, and one drowned. Oonnanght has been scratched for the Derby. 3000 to 80 has been taken against Stirling. Tho new Ministry was completed on Tuesday as follows :-—M'Culloch, Premier and Treasurer ; M'Pherson,, Chief Secretary ; Kerferd, Attorney-General; Dr Madden, Minister of Justice ; Jones, Minister for Rail-

ways ; Ramsay, Minister of Education; Anderson, Customs ; M'Lellan, Minister for Mines.

Tho Swan Hall coach was robbed on Saturday night, and a bag of letters taken. Last Sunday's Hospital collection amounted to £SOOO. Tho steamer Great Britain arrived at Melbourne this morning, 55 days out from London, with about 4.00 passengers. The Mining Department is sending out properly equipped prospecting parties. A man named Chambers, who died in July last, left in his will a sum to the University to bo offered for tho best essays on lying, moral murder, and thieving, in connection with matrimony. Tho Registrar of the University has refused to be nominated an executor to the will and renounced the trust. The University has, therefore, declined the proffered gift. Richard Gibson and Co. report having sold by private contract to Robertson Bros., of Colac, tho whole of Mr Richard Morton's Mount Derrimut herd of pure short-homs, consisting of 37 head, including the imported Bates bull, " Oxford Cherry Duke," for the sum of £27,000. The largest collection on Hospital Sunlay was made in the Scot's Church, and amounted to £143. Brisbane, October 23rc. 140 tons of stone from the Lady May, No 7, at Gympie, was crushed, ond yielded 138Gozs. of gold. A largo fire at Cooktown, onthol.4thirflt., originated at the west end of Charlotte striet. The damage is estimated at £BOOO, and is principally among the Chinese. Sydney October 23rd. lima do Murska has made a fortune out of her Australian tour. She plays eight day; in Sydney, thence goes to Queensland, aid expects to reach Auckland for a New Zealand tour in six weeks. Mr Pratt, her pianist, is summoned home, owing to family sicknejs. Mr Alfred Anderson succeeds him. The Conqueror, from New York, sighted the hull of the ship Foundling, of Liverpool, previously reported as burnt at sea. This is identical with tho vessel seen by the Norwegian barque William Tell, which arrived in Melbourne) on the 15th, reporting me letters on the stern of the wreck to bo MO II Henry Lee, a well-known squatter, was burnt to death at Bathurst on Sunday, his nightshirt having accidentally caught firo from a candle. Roper, under sentence of death for tho murder of his sister in-law at Mudgeo, attempted to commit suicide by opening s vein in his arm wtth a piece of steel obtained from a necktie. The people of this colony are looking forward to the decision of the New Zealand General Assembly re the San Francisco contract, fearing that if Macandrew's amendment is carried, the contract will fall through. There has been a great firo at the Home Rule Diggings. One side of a street was entirely destroyed. The ship Samuel Plimsoll has arrived from London with immigrants. She encountered a large field of icebergs a hundred miles in extent.