LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 375, 9 June 1868, Page 3

LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

By the arrival of th* Tscrarua"at Wellington *«rs»". ilelbourne we have dates to the 21th inst We subjoin a few items of news :-— The result of the Ovens Election is as follows :— l£erford, 1233 ; Barrj', | 1035. Villiera election : — M'Donnell, 793 ; Bayles, 535 ; Cook, 503. All the returns are not in, but M'Donnell and Bayles arc considered secure. Parliament meets on May 29, O'Grady and Gillies expect to obtain seats. Flour is Ll9 10s, but few trausaction3. Maize is in demand at 3s Id. There is some speculation in teas, and sugars are Jower. A schoolmaster, an Orangeman, residing pear Kyneton, received a threatening letter, ordering him to leave the district. Sydney, May 27, The Gympie Creek diggings are slightly improving. The Bank of New South Wales at Sofala, has been robbed of LI7OO. Barnes and McGrath were hanged at Bathurst on Monday. The fall was so great, that the convicts' necks were nearly torn from their bodies. Portions of a wreck supposed to be that of a large American vessel, have been found at Broad Sound. The shock of an earthquake was felt at Manaroo on May 17. A reward of L2OO is offered for the apprehension of the murderers of Hawkers, at Narandera. Breadstuff's dull. Adelaide, May 27. Flour is L22 IQ. Randall's store at Mannam has been destroyed by fire. Dnffield and Co.'s new mill is opened. On the evening of Saturday last, ro ports the Gerringong correspondent of the Kiama Independent, a large stone, said to be some tons weight, being loosened from its position on the side of the range at Mount Pleasant, rolled down the hill, in the direction of a hut where two females live, one of whom is a comparative (cripple, and who was sitting about the middle of the hut, the other being outside feeding some fowls ; the rolling mass struck the but, knocking down the back wall, and resting on the floor within a few inches of the poor creature, who remained motionless and untouched, preserved by an unseen but Almighty hand from immediate destruction. The South Australian Government having called for tenders for reporting flansard during the next three sessions, offers were made by the proprietors of the Advertiser and Register respectively ; the former at L 7 10s per day and 250 bound Volumes ; and the latter at L 5 per day, and L 250 for the volumes. Of course the Register's, as the lowest tender in amount, was accepted. The Melbourne Evening Star understands that a committee of inquiry is now taking evidence as to the conduct of a well known clergymen officiating in St. Kilda, the charge preferred against him being pne of improper familiap.ty with one of the young ladies of his congregation whom he was preparing for confirmation. An old woman named Sarah Mitchell was found dead at her residence, Hobart 9?own, by a carpenter. Deceased lived alone for many years past. She was about eighty-four years of age, and the widow of Mr Mitchell, formerly Post-jnaster-General in the early days of the colony. Mr Ramsden, the paper manufacturer of Melbourne, has eight tons of news in stock, but complains that his workmen are agitating for such a rise of wages as to deprive him of bis reasonable profits. During the past two years fourteen publicans have died in Rockhampton. The local journal records the fact, leaving its readers to draw their own conclusions. A Strange Divorce Case. — A very fungular case came before the Divorce Court at Melbourne recently. The petitioner was Mr Von.;.Knorr, keeper of the Sandhurst Cattle Yards, and the ground of his application for dissolution of marrijige was the adultery of his wife with one of his servants, named Northqott. The woman was taken by Mr Yon Knorr out of a brothel, in the year 1861, when she was only eighteen years of age.. He made her his wife, and procured masters in Tarious branches of education to cultivate her mind, but after staying with him for six years she confessed that after giving married life a patient trial she found she was unfit for it, and had besides lost all affection for her husband The latter detecting her in an attempt to make a bolt, paid there was on necessity for her to do that, and let her go with his full accord, promising to send her LIOO as soon as he could scrape it together, to start in some honest way of living. However, he found shortly after she left that Northcott was with her, and that after a temporary stay in Melbourne, they had gone off together to New" Zealand. Neither Mrs Von Knorr nor Northcott put in any answer to the petition and the court granted a dissolution of marriage. The Port Denison Times (Queensland) of the 2nd instant publishes a letter from a practical digger, who says ; — The Cape River Gold-fields, so far as is yet known, are of no great extent. The two first localities where payable gold was found jira named Specimen Gully and the Upper Cape. These can only be termed detached patches, and were to a great extent worked out three or four months ago, and an extremely small population is now resident ppon them. They are distant about fifteen miles from each other. The last Aaeovery (where the principal population

I is now resident, numbering say seven or eight hundred people) is distant nearly twenty miles from the Upper Cape workings, lower down the stream. These workings have been principally surface and shallow sinking. A considerable number of men have done aud are doing very well but no lead or general run of gold has, as yet, been found, although trials have been made, and nothing more can be said of it than that it is another patch of gold similar to although more extensive the former, and there are more people here now than can make a living, a great number doing nothing. From Cleveland Bay we learn that the Active, brigantine, 130 tons, bound for the beche-de-mer fisheries, was sighted off that port on the 3rd ultimo, apparently making for the harbour, when she suddenly hauled her wind, and disappeared round Magnetic Island. It now appeara that some fourteen diggers took passage in the Active from Rockhampton, the last port she called at for Cleveland Bay en route to the Capo River diggings, and Captain Godfrey, doubtless with the idea of evading the usual port dues, landed his^passengers at Cape Marlow for Pallareadag, some six or seven ■miles from Townsville in Ida bouts, the ship meanwhile lying to in the offing. The men reached town very much disgusted with their long tramp. One of them Wtis, we understand, suffering from fever, and with difficulty accomplished the distance from the Cape to town. By this artful dodge, however, the cantain has rendered himself liable to a fine of LIOO under the Customs Act, and no doubt the customs authorities will keep a sharp look out for him and his ship in future.