INTERCOLONIAL

Dunstan Times, Issue 499, 10 November 1871, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL

VICTORIA. The Melbourne City Council has determined to erect a new Eastern; Market. The Architect has reci ived 200/. for the design of the building which will be quite an ornament to Melbourne. Dr. Perry, tin Anglician Bishop of Melbourne, has again got himself into hot water, through indulging in some of his peculiar eccentricities. At « recent confirmation service, he objected to lay his episcopal hands on the heads of a bevy of fair young maidens, clad in emblematical white, and summardy dismissed them to don their customary attire. The aisles of Christ’s Church, St. Kilda, were for the nonce resolved into a green-room, and the astonished congregation was edified by the sight of a number of young girls thrust into painful prominence, struggling u.tn jackets and peplums and paniers by special episcopal command. Bendigo is still revelling in a mad whirl of excitement. Speculation is rampant and the eager desire to dabble in scrip pervades all classes. The excitement is keenly felt i , Melbourne, and isspreading throughout the colony. Much of the speculation is, as a matter of course, mere reckless gamb.ing, and it is difficult to draw the line of demarcation between fully and methodical, far seeing, wisdom. Shares are constantly fluctuating, and the scrip worth but a few shillings to day, may realise double the number of pounds to morrow. With the reefs increasing in richness the further they go down, the deepest promising to become the richtst, and fresh discoveries almost daily made, extending over many mil. s, it is difficult to prophecy what Bendigo will eventually become, hut theie is every evidence that the district will become great and prosperous in the future. Ihcre skeins no lack of money for investment, debentures, hank shares building socie'y shares, and other securi’ties being realised to provide the n ces-ary funds. A Sandhurst b. oker very recently received a commission from Melbourne to buy stocks to the amount of 20,985/, the largest transaction in a single lineover’done on Sandhurst. Two years ago the whole lot could have been bought for less than 500/. Uf course, all the world and his wife, are flocking to Bendigo, and every home in' the city is filled to overflowing. Amongst the large nmuber of pe pie flocking there to share in the good turns, was noticed on the road Tom Castlemaine an undertaker, who was going there with all his stock in trade, hirst was the hearse, with a cow fastened behind ; next came ain mruing coach containing the undertaker’s family and such houseUold effects as could not. he accomodated inside the hearse. The process on caused great lun along the road, as show! ng that undertakers hope to thrive at San b hurst as wed as tuc gentry that buzz around the Beehive. The abundance of money available for investment has bad the effect of inducing the banks of issue to reduce the rates of interest on deposits. Application has b en made by Mr. H. F. Purced, tlie En liah barrister, and one of the counsel for the defendants in the Tichl.ourne case, to the Castkmaine bench of magistrates for leave to convey to Englaud for use in the Tichbourna trial, the hooks of the local police court, cont.ihiinnthe names of the prisoneis and the charges brought agamst them during the years 1858 1860. The Solicitor General has de- . cided that the request cannot be grante 1. % At Eandc-borough the coroner was informe iby the police of the discovery of a human thigh bone, in a hoi ow trie near Navarre. On the police searching the treo they found the greater part of a skeleton of an adult person, togetner with the peak of a cap, a broken \\ ine glass, a poitii n of a silk handkerchief, and the key of a handcuff. The discovery caused'much excitement, as a squatter name Gibson, who was travelling sheep about sixteen years ago was missed somewhere in the Pyrenees, and was supposed to have been murdered. NEW SOUTH WALES. * -mTh bound to Mauritius, with a shipment of racehoises, including Kawden, Gem, Sir John, and Warwick, has put back and reports having lost the entire shipment except one, through the fittings giving way during the recent gales. Tho quarter’s revenue shows an increase of 52,000/., chiefly in Customs and railways