INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 349, 9 April 1868, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

The price of the 21b loaf in Adelaide has been raised to oid. Whilst the' gold was being conveyed on board of the Great Britain, prior to her departure for Liverpool, a box containing loOOoz. of the precious metal was dropped overboard by one of the sailors who was conveying it from the tug to the steamer. Captain Brahe, the diver, recovered it about 8 o'clock in the evening in about six fatlvuns of water. A woman named Mrs Burns, the wife of a shoemaker, residing in Eureka street, Ballaarat, met her death on Wednesday affcernoou under somewhat peculiar and painful circumstances. While engaged eating her dinner a portion of meat she was eating stuck in her throat, or as the popular expression is, "went the wrong way," and despite every means adopted to relieve her, she expired before medical aid could be procured. The fund subscribed in Melbourne for the benefit of the survivors of the ship General Grant has been disposed of. Though small, it enabled the committee to pay for the board of all the party since they have been in Melbourne, and to divide a balance amongst them. Messrs F£os and Outes, of the Globe Hotel, where the party lodged, declined to charge Mr and Mrs Jewell for tlieir board, and they consequently received tlieir portion without deduction, and have since proceeded to Inglewood. Mr Ashworth, one of the passengers, declined to accept anything, and very soon after his arrival went up country to work. Our dates from Launceston come down to the 11th inst. The yield of the crops is a subject of general interest, and therefore we take the folio win;/ paragraph from t\\G Examiner: — " Aucordingto all accounts there will be an ordinaxy average crop of cereals ; nothing to equal what was reaped last year from the same breadth, but still not a defective crop. The blight and rust have clone their work most completely at some places, while at others the injury has been confined to patches. There has "been no scarcity of hands, and the crops have been gathered at a less expense than it cost last year. The price is good, and we i hope those that can will take advantage of the current quotations, and quit as much of their produce at least as will make them secure."