INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 322, 6 February 1868, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

A frightful outrage has been committed at the Bank of Victoria, Epsom. A little after eight o'clock at night, during the short absence of Mr Murcott, the manager, the servant-girl heard a noise in the bank, and proceeding to the spot found a Chinaman. She tried to arrest him, but he gashed her most frightfully with a knife and escaped. He was tracked for a mile by the blood marks. The girl lies in a critical state. The first batch of elections for the new Assembly in Victoria have come off, and •have resulted in a majority for the Ministerial party, which the subsequent elections are expected — in some measure at least — to neutralise. The Argus of the 23rd ult. says: — "If we may judge by | their published declarations, the following may be taken as the order in which the members of the new Assembly known for certain to be elected will range themselves when ' the issue' is put to the House — namely, that the Darling grant be again sent up to the Council tacked to the Appropriation Bill: — For: Messrs M'Culloch, M'Combie, Longmore, G. P. Smith, Riddell, M. L. King, J. T. Smith, Watkins, Balfour, M'Caw, Cope, Cunningham, F. L. Smyth. Against : Messrs Macbain, Connor, Macpherson, O'Grady, Duffy, Bayles, Macdonnell, Stutt. Neutral : Sir F. Murphy, Mr Lalor. It will be thus seen that there is already a very considerable minority against the M'Cnlloch test, and that Mr Higinbotham's dream of an unanimous House will be very far from realised." "' The weather at Adelaide is very hot. The thermometer stands at 103 in the shade. The corn market is very quiet. The abstract of the revenue and expenditure of the colony of South Australia for the quarter ending the 31st December is anything but consolatory. The total income was L 147,700, against 171,000 for the corresponding quarter of last year. The wool ship Salween, from Brisbane to Londou, fourteen days out, arrived at Sydney on the 20th January on fire. The discovery was made four pays after sailing, and all the efforts of the crew failed to suppress the names, The slup was scuttled in Sirius Cove. The Salween's cargo was insured here for over L 20,000, principally in Smyth's and the New South Wales Offices.