INTERCOLONIAL.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 214, 15 February 1875, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. By the Tararua we have Australian news to February 3rd. The following items are additional to those already forwarded by telegraph All Mr Fisher’s horses were scratched on the 2nd inst for their engagements at Geelong. As the Geelong race meeting draws nearer there is a good deal more interest taken in the event, and the betting has assumed a much more lively tone than for some time past. Haricot was taken pretty freely for the Geelong Cup on the 2nd at 50 to 20, and left off firm at 5 to 2. Melbourne was at 5 to 1 taken, and the same price was offered against Wollamai. Lapidist and Lurline were at 6 to 1, taken and offered. For the Hurdle race, Hory O’More was much weaker, and 4 to 1 was offered against him. This horse is said to have gone badly of late. There was a disposition to back a horse not named, and 5 to 1 would have been taken, but the bookmakers would not give the odds. It is thought the horse wanted to be backed was Dunmoro. who is much fancied by some well-informed' persons. The scratching of Doubtful caused great disappointment to his backers, as he was known to be in grand form. Robin is the favorite for the Steeplechase. Stringer has been arrested near Wagga Wagga for the murder of Mitchell, at Berambil. He was going to surrender himself. The passage boat Excelsior, from Hobart Town, was caught in a squall on Sunday, in the Huon River, and swamped. The owner and three passengers, including a mother and child, were drowned. Six others were saved. We learn from the Brisbane papers that of the two men placed in charge of the boat at the crossing of the Laura river, on the road to the Palmer, one (named Blair) has been killed by the blacks, and the other badly wounded. An official telegram received from Cooktovn stated that the diggings at the Normanby, distant sixty miles from Cooktown, were doing well. Rations were said to be plentiful at reasonable prices. Rumours were afloat in Cooktown about a rush of some magnitude to the Tait river, at a point about 100 miles south of the Palmer, but no trustworthy news had come in on the subject. The Cooldown Courier of the 9th January reports seven magisterial inquiries into cases of sudden death, chiefly caused by the extreme heat. The Palmer reefers have entered into an agreement with Mr Clapre, acting for and on behalf of Albert Edelman, of Melbourne, who has undertaken to erect a machine on the ground in eight months; crushing to be £2 per ton for twelve months. Mr A. W, Cruden, the late manager of the Union Bank at Rochester, was again apprehended on the Ist, by Detective Alexander, on the charge of embezzling a cheque for £SOO, belonging to Thomas Spencer, of Rochester. He was remanded till Monday next. It is said that Cruden surrendered himself, or said where he could be found. Bail was allowed. The Sydney papers of Wednesday contain telegraphic particulars from Toowoomba of a strange occurrence on the railway line near Cambooya in Queensland. A hurricane raged with such violence that a train was blown off the line on to its side, and became a perfect wreck, but there was no serious casualty. Sir Redmond Barry was in one of the carriages, but h** escaped without injury. The passengers get out of the carriages through the windows, and a special train was despatched for them. A number of men were sent to the scene of the disaster to clear the line of the debris. In the New South Wales Assembly, on the 2nd inst, the Governor’s aide-de-camp presented h’ts Excellency’s reply to the address tak ng exception to the use of the word “ indefensible” in relation to the Governor’s miuute, Mr ?arhes stated that Sir William

Manning had been sent for, and moved an adjournment of the House to give him time to form a Ministry. A debate ensued, in which a strong feeling was expressed against a member of a nominee chamber being entrusted wi'h the formation of a Ministry, and the House decimal to adjourn longer than till the following day. Mr llobertson, Mr Forster, and Mr Butler have declined to join Sir William Manning, who has been allowed a week by the Governor to complete his task. The Governor ignoring the members of the Lower House causes surprise. Indirect negotiations have been opened with Mr Robertson to induce him to rescind certain words in his amendment on the address, to the effect that some of the allegations in the Governor’s minute are indefensible. Another stabbing ca°c has occurred at Maryborough. A youth, the son of Mr Hawkes, blacksmith, aged sixteen, was stabbed in his father’s shop by a Chinaman. The latter thought that Hawkes had been throwing stones at him, but it appears he had not. He was sitting quietly in the shop, when the Chinaman sent an eight-inch knife blade into his groin. 'Jhe Chinaman was quickly secured by Sergeant Fahey, and handcuffed. The lad’s connition is very critical. Dr Laidman is afraid he cannot save his life.

An inquest was held on the 2nd at Stanley, Beechworth, by Dr Dobbyn, the coroner, on some human remains discovered on Friday last at the head of Kangaroo Creek, three miles from Stanley. No marks of violence were discovered on the skull or other bones. Chuck Niug identified a hat found and some scraps of clothing as similar to those worn by a neighbour of his named Tack Chuck, whom he last saw on the 25th May twelvemonths. Tack Chuck, on departing, appeared to be in good health. Ah Long corroborated the evidence of Chuck Ning as to the fragments of clothing being similar to the garments of Tack Chuck, Dr Tregallis Fox, called in to examine the bones, deposed that no marks of violence were to be seen thereon. He said deceased, from bis appearance, could not be more than a middle-aged man. The bones produced seemed to have been injured by the teeth of animals. Verdict—“ That the adult male skeleton found at the head of the Kangaroo Creek, near Stanley, on the 2!)th- of January, 1875, was the remains of Tack Chuck. How he came to his death there is no evidence to show.” . Three men reported to be in a dying state in a hut near Swampy Creek, in the Iroubark Forest, were brought in to Geelong on the 2nd in the police conveyance, and lodged in the hospital. Their names are Williem Gilmour and Thomas and James MCKensie, all young men of from twenty-two to twentyfour years of age. Gilmour is a wood cutter, and the two M‘Keuzies were engaged carting logs for the railway badge at the breakwater. When found Gilmour had been laid up with sickness for eight days, and the others for four days. They had plenty of provisions and water in their hut, but they were so thoroughly prostrated as to be unable to attend to their own wants. Gilmour occupied a stretcher, and the others lay on the floor. They had no idea what they were suffering from, and were under the impression they were likely to die. On Saturday a son of Mr Cunningham, a storekeeper at Jan Juc, was looking for a horse, when they cooeyed and attracted his attention. This led to the police communicated with. On being brought to the hospital, it was fouud that they were suffering from a severe attack of measles, and by direction of the superintendent. the police ambulance was immediately disinfected with the aid of a copious supply of water from the Stoney Creek. A miner named James Mooney was seriously injured at Dimolly on the 2nd while working at the Prince of Wales Company’s claim. He had a portion of his thigh torn clean off by the brace of the kick-up. He was immediately conveyed to the hospital, where he lies in a precarious state. The Prince of Wales Company obtained eleven ounces from a small quantity of washdirt yesterday. Mrs M‘Carthy died at Back Creek, near Sandhurst, at the age of HI. She was born in 1761 in the village of Kiloran, in the county of Galway, her maiden name being Mary O’Brien. She was married in 17S18, and emigrated to America in the following year. She remained in that country till she was ninety-nine years of age, and saw four generations growing up around her. At that advanced period of her life she joined the youngest son in Ireland, walking sixteen miles from the railway station to her native village. Fifteen years ago she emigrated to Australia, and resided in Bendigo to the time of her death. The Advertiser says of her ;—“ Of late years, her memory of events of the past has been very vivid. Forgetful from day to day of passing events, she yet could chat with freedom of those stirring times when it was penal for a Roman Catholic to be found within twenty miles of the City of Dublin, and when, if a priest rode a horse worth £IOO, he was obliged to sell it to the first Protestant who demanded it for £5. To the end her faculties were perfect. Her last request, made some four or five days since, was that she might be buried in Kiloran, her native place. Three or four years since her sight failed her, but she never wore spectacles, and about two years ago it returned as with the renewal of a last youth. She was then able to thread a needle at a common tallow candle; and up to almost the last moment she was capable of hearing even the whispered communication of her son, in whose house she died. For a man of sixtyfour to be able to attend the funeral obsequies at the remains of his mother is given to few; but such a sight may bo seen to-day, (Monday) at Mrs McCarthy’s funeral, which will take place at the White-hills Cemetery.