INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 999, 10 June 1881, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

A Melbourne telegram of the 3rd instant states that the Civil servants have not yet boon paid their salaries for the past month, as Mr Berry declines to introduce a Supply Bill. Ho insists that tho reform question shall bo settled before tho appropriation of funds is authorised,

At Sydney tho “ Bulletin ’’ l|i>d case name before the Gnurt of Appeal on tho 3rd instant, and after hearing arguments of counsel on both aides, tliu Court made an Order for a new trial, on tho ground that, certain evidence against the paper had boon improperly admitted iu tho Supremo Court payment of coats in tho suit is to ho determined hy the result of the new trial Tho “ Melbourne) Leader ” makes wholesale charges against the medical students, including theft, rowdyism, and asiniue dostruc,iveness.

Mrs Kelly, of Greta, said in her evidence before tho police hoard that when she saw tho Commission coming sho thought it was a circus.

An effort is to lie made by tho extreme teetotallers to enlist Melbourne ladies in a personal crusade against the publicans after tho American fashion It is stated in mercantile circles that tho Government have overstepped their authority, and complications are likely to ensue f’aa to tho seizing of the_ steamer Ferrett. The diamond drill has ceased »-ork in tho Magdata shaft, Stawell, Victoria, having bored 521 feet below the bottom of tho shaft, or to a total depth of 3013 feet, or 2202 feet below tho level of the sea. The “country” continued the same as it had been throughout, tho motamorphic rock known to miners as “ blue schist,,” mixed with thick quartz veins or leaders. tho sinking of the Magdala shaft sufficient quartz has been met with to, in the aggregate, make a lode over 100 ft thick, and, though at times the three reefs cut have been gold-bearing, in no instance have they been payable It seems to have fully proved the theory that tho flat reefs, which are Stawell’s specialty, all “ peter out” as they go to the east and away from tho junction with the vertical reefs. The Magdala has for tho past 12 or 13 years struggled pluckily, and this last, disappointment is to be regretted. The owner offerred the owner of Mata to make a mutch for LSOO, but the offer was declined.

An anti-Irish Land League meeting, bold recently, proved a fiasco, owing to the presence of a largo number of sympathisers of the League, who prevented a motion being put. The Victorian Postmaster-General has issued a circular dispatch to tho Governments of the other Colonies, urging them to join in a Postal Convention. The dispatch further {suggests that the Colonies should contribute to-wards a possible loss on tho Oceanic service.