INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Issue 91, 11 August 1866, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

The secretary of the Crown Lands department of Adelaide is missing. > The defalcations in . the" office arc over : iJ 1 209, A war,rmt is out for his apprehension. He uas bsetf'traced to one of the steamers,, on board of which he- is -proceeding up tlie river' Murray. His arrest is considered certain. - The schooner Lydia has beeu totally wrecked near Port MaccjuirciJ; hands saved. >Ir Flett, magistrate;- _at4 planning. River, writes to the Sydney Morjuny Herald, reporting that the Eclipse, )bolonging to Mr -'Johuson, squatter, Gipps /land, and cattleladen, from Gladstone, ; wa^ totally wrecked to the nortirof Manning lEiver Ear. All hamk are supposed to have -perished. Eight bodies were washed ashore. 4 '/' The weather has been^lvery severe, at Daylesford- and. the neighborhood. The Express speaks of" .the lafe: storm in the following terms :-—" On fiindax morning the _ gi'dundiir and around Diiyltsford vr&s agaiii covered-with suow,- but it ttowcid ofTP before •liiid-day. A gentleman wiip passed through ■jtullarooki-| l otest'. on Friday atter t^e gi-eat^ siiowstormfof "the previous night; - informs us v that he wasiiti'great dangeivfrom the falling ;branph.es| i'UThe weight ofjftlie frozen rain 'acting on the end of the bi^achos 'deteched limbs as thick a3 a man's" body from the trees, and the. reports causffil by. the suddsn snapping of the timber mndef the forest reverberate.; <:It is igcnerally afereed, excepting at Wood's Point, no fail^jr snow equal tr> .that of last. week has beeuUvitnessed in the colony, since the" remarkable event of the same kind at Melbourne ?about tlie year lSMl" - ..■>- . " ( i , : ";. - :v v A nugget weighing. 110 Jounces has been found in a wet gully between Jones's* Creek and Dunolly. f . - ~ It is stated that prior io the decease of tlie' explorer, Mr M^lntyrft he 'had gained information as to where a.tribe of natives having with, them white children wpre to be lookeclfor.. Along with his party, he had surrounded' a very "wild lot of the aborigines, whom Jie expenlfecl were those, he was so ,de->' sirous of- fallipj- in vtit\ but it turned out they were not" the right ones. He got a boy from them, . -\vho is being taken care of and instructed!, with the view of gaming information regarding the tribes of the interior. The friends of the deceased say that if he had been- spared for three wdeksl longer he would have reached the natives (with the white children, and would have ascertained everything that- can lie. traced of* the unfortunate Leichardt. |i It is stated by the War/iiqmbool Examiner that a- handsome amethysf^ a topaa, and a specimen of 'red poVphyry have been found withiu a fe-v^ miles of H'amijjton.