LATEST FROM THE PALMER.

Evening Star, Issue 3705, 7 January 1875, Page 3

LATEST FROM THE PALMER.

The following telegram appears in the * Rockhampton Bulletin’:—“Cooktown, via Cardwell, Friday, November 27.—The steamers Florence Irving and Victoria leave here to-day. There is not much gold news from the Palmer. The new rush is good, but there is no water available for washing. The dirt is consequently being stacked, awaiting the rains. The news from the Palmer is good, several new rushes having occurred, and men still flocking there. The weather here (Cooktown) is very oppressive, the thermometer ranging at from 90deg. to . 95deg. in the shade. Business is quiet. Mr Reid, the proprie'or of the * Cooktown ; Courier,’has been summpned by Mr Bailey ' of the * Herald ’ for malicious injury to pro- i perty. The? evidence went to show that the ; defendant entered the * Herald ’ office during the dinner when all hands were absent, and ■ smeared all the type galleys with paste. Mr ■ Barnett, of Glenora, was the sitting magistrate, and said, in dismissing the information, ! that it was merely a practical joke, A Mel- ! bourne firm has undertaken to put up three crushing machines' on the Palmer, and all the ; arrangements are already made.' The Cook- 1 town papers p°int With justifiable pride to ■ the customs retnrns of that port, which show • that during the hipe mouths ending on 20th September, over ‘?S,O(JOos. gold were ex- ; ported from Cooktown, the declared total ; value being L 314 000.