LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 255, 31 August 1867, Page 3

LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

The trial of Mr M'Cann, M.L.A., was continued on the 20th, and he received a sentence of seven years in Melbourne gaol, without hard labor, for feloniously uttering a forged acceptance. In the Legislative Assembly on the 20th, Mr M'Culloch stated that Mr Verdon had been appointed agent general in London for tho colony of Victoria. In the Legislative Council the Appropriation ißill was rejected by a majority of 23 to 6. The House was crowded with visitors, and a Lirge number were waiting outside to hear the result of the debate. It was received quietly. At a general meeting of the Sydney Floods Relief Committee on Monday last, Mr Piddington, treasurer, stated that L 17,500 had been contributed in cash, including L 2500 sent from Melbourne. The food, clothing, <fee, contributed besides ; this, amounted in value to probably another L 7500, making a sum of L 25,500 raised for the relief of the sufferers by the recent floods. The treasurer had already paid away L 10,00 0; and for months to come expected to be still called on for necessary aid, as it must be months before : many of those who lost all are in a position to go on without aid. < The Pleasant Creek- Chronicle furnishes i the following piece of gossip : — " It is said ■ that one of our quartz-reefers, known for | his liberality, has, since a first-rate crushing from which he obtained about LI6OO for about six weeks' work, offered to give LIOOO towards tlie entertainment of the Duke of Edinburgh, provided he can be induced, to visit Pleasant Creek. This offer displays an amount of loyalty not often met with in these degenerate days, . and we trust that the. claim from winch , he monthly receives such' magnificent returns may get better and better, so that ' at length he may induce even the Prince ' of Wales to visit us." The Emu Creek diggings continue to ■ furnish satisfactory reports as to the : quartz veins, but the alluvial diggings are not yielding so well as was anticipated. ' We have Hobart Town advices to the 14th, and Launceston to the 15th inst. ' Mr C. S. Cansdell and Mr J. W. Graves '. have been nominated for the vacancy in ' Hobart Town. The Tasmanian Times has ■ passed into other hands, and it is said ( will be in opposition to the present Ministry. Mr, Lawrence, the messenger of the ( Union Bank, Hobart Town, was mur- ' derously assaulted on the 14th instant, at ! about one o'clock. There are but three of '. the aboriginal women now left at the sta- i tion at Oyster Cove, and even that num- , ber it is expected will be shortly reduced,' las " Wabberty," the woman recently dis- ■ charged from the hospital, is now in a very dangerous condition, and not ex- '• pected to recover. Mrs Julia Mausell, 1 aged about sixty years, died a f ßw years ; ago on Sea Lion Island. She is the last aboriginal on the group, but she leaves a numerous family of half-caste children ; now. scattered in various places. Her former husband was named John Thomas,. ' and her last husband, Mansell, is sixtyfour-- years of age.. Shortly before her : 'death she suffered from measles and < dysentery, and latterly from some disease . of the heart. • • , Mr Dufiy has been returned for the Legislative Assembly for Kynefcon, Vie-, toria, by a" majority over Mr Sands, .^ie ' ex member, of 109 votes, . ]