VICTORIAN ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 521, 12 April 1872, Page 2

VICTORIAN ITEMS.

Mining news at Sandhurst is very on. couraging. Big cakes of gold are more numerous than ever.

'At tho, Brighton Police Court, on the 2.3rd ult, Henry >tioct, alius Joe Pick fad, and Ann Minniver Davis wore charge 1 on warrant with attempting to kill Frcderiel Davis, by causing poison to bo a lminis*ere4 to him. The female is prosecutor’s wife. Both prisoners were committed for trial.

A man named Patrick James Dowling® lias keen committed for trial, for arso , at® Fitzroy. Robert Eyton, a miner from New Zealand,® was lately charged 'beforethe Fitzroy reach® with attempted suicide, and re.-auded futH medical inquiry'. Er; The whaling interest piomis's w 11. The® barque Maiie i awric mrived in lio' ait Town lately, after a sixteen rm nibs’ cruise, with a take of oil va'ue i at 3,7(10/., ami lire Runnymede, after a >ix cen an a bail mouths’ voyage, with 5,2001. The celebrated V’iccmsaii stccpie ch.so horse Dutchman, v/ii ch ..asm o .. .g---laml by Mr. David Jones, wiii ,n-1 oe penutted to inn at any nisi tin- on ny course where the Gi«:nl-National Rales « n force. The match f..r 1C.5 -.ido, etv.cou Hewitt and Redf- id, to iua live miles, aas won easily by H vri t, Pcil.Vsrl rercivir.y three hundred yards stare The Oveaz Advertiser says : - —“ A correspondent. living within cue bundled miles of Wangaratta, asks u s if we think it an edifying spectacle to see a man who has been notoriously' drinking very heavily for weeks sitting on the magisterial b rich, amt fining or cautioning off nde; s charg d wi' being ‘ drunk and disorderly'.’ V.’c J only answer with a decided negative, it is bad enough for the pot to call the kettle black ; but it is still worse when the pot is on the bench and the kettle at the bar.” The total number of cases of preserved meats imported into London from Australia and New Zealand during the year IST! amounted to no less than 215,.311. in addition to a considerable number of casks. The largest quantity was shipped from Melbourne, the amount being 95,183 cases. It is believed that, by the contract entered into between the Government of Vietorh and Messrs. Vogel and Webb, with regard to subsidising the San Francisco mail, the American steamers arc to come on direct from New Zealand to Melbourne, and it is said the subsidy is between 15,000.'. and 20,000/. per annum. The dangerous practice of reading in bed by can lie-light was the cause of tbs - residence of Mr. L. A. Moody', Inspector of Distilleries, i;i Williams-street, SouthYarra, being totally destroyed by fire. Letters received by the last mail stats tha. Mr. B. 0. Aspiiwll is considerably better for bis voyage home. lie has beau placed in the private asylum of Dr. Ara.’ strong, at Peckhain, near London, and the doctor does not despair of lus ultimate recovery. Ac Peckham, Mr. Aspinall was visited by the Duke of Edinburgh and by several members of his own family whom ha had not seen foiy years. Hu recognised them all. The Ballarat Courier month ns that the contract entered into by the Ballard Meat Preserving Comp uiy with tha Admiralty is for the supply' of 6 i,OJi)ib. of mutton, at ; "d. per pound, and there appears a prospect] of the company obt.i dr.; a still larger coa-| tract for the supply of Uccf.