VICTORIA.

Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 184, 19 March 1867, Page 3

VICTORIA.

An adventure, combining the useful and the romantic in a very rare degree, is announced by the Geelong Advertiser. Our contemobfary states that a number of persons residing in Geelong and Belmont have associated together for the purpose of leasing .Van^island some-40,000 acres in extent, :frbm the: Tasmanian, Government. There they intend to carry on a lai-ge dairy farm, and breed pigs for the colonial markets. They -will doubtless be well rewarded-for their outlay, for pig-breeding is one of the most profitable pursuits that can. be mentioned. The party referred to intend taking amedical gentleman with^heni; in fact they intend to form a;: new^toe colony. A schooner some forty or fif^pons, is now being built; and when this is%completed they will start for their new Home. According to the Daylesfprd Express;- a great hit was lately madein the local police court, by an apt citation.from the works hi JDickens during the hearing of the lengthy case of :the Queenv Crawcour. Defendant was charged with taking pledges in pawn knowing them to be stolen, and also with a breachof the Pawnbroker's Act; by receivr ing pledges from an apparently intoxicated man. It was necessary for* Mr Dunne, Crawcour's counsel, to.Cshow that there was nothing unusual in Scott, the man convicted of stealing the watches Vpawned, pledging them in fictitious-riames. ,In the course of his argument the learned gentleman' cited the example' of Mr Montague Tigg, in '^Martin Chuzzlewit," and with much unction read from that famous authority the dialogue between the impecunious Tigg and 'Mine uncle.' Bench; bar, and spectators were in a roar at the curious felicity of^the allusion, and for a ,few minutes it was impossible to restore the gravity., of the 'Court.- Mr" Drummond, the polices; magistrate, cleverly ' improYed' the. occasion, by making?an: appeaV on behalf of the poor, and, after thanking Mr Dixnne for his penny readingi.directGd tine usher to hand round the box, 'as he thought all who had laughed^ should conj»ribute.r „'He setv,the example; himself,"and it was 'followed by nearly \every one present; . Some further amusement wasoccasibned, after those on the floor had handed iv their donations, by Mr Druramond telling the constable-to go Up to thei'gentlemen in^he gallery.' "