QUEENSLAND.

Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 438, 3 November 1868, Page 3

QUEENSLAND.

The latest copy of the Nashville Times to hand says that there has been more activity on this field during the week. There have been some good finds in many reefs, among which may be mentioned No. 1 North Californian and No. 1 North St. Patrick, specimens of which were exhibited in the Bank of New South Wales. Another feature in regard to this field was brought to light the other day by the discovery of some very richly-spread gold through fellspar or sodium. This was found at a depth of thirty-five feet in No. 7 South Caledonian, a claim which has been worked without success for many months. The spar was closely associated with bluestone and quartz. Threlkeld's machine has been '. pretty constantly at work, and is now : crushing stone from the Victoria, but the return is not yet made up. It is expected to be good. The Pioneer has been partly idle, as the manager is awaiting the arrival of a greater pumping power. The Enterprise machine will probably be completed. 1 by the end' of next week, and the other 1 machines are being proceeded with as rapidly as is compatible with the supply of plant. In alluvial matters there is not much to report. There has been nothing done in Deep Lead, owing to the impossibility of keeping down the water. It has been suggested that there should be some joint action taken by the claim-holders ; and, if that is done, there will be a better chance of testing what is generally considered to be valuable ground. There are still a few Europeans striving to get a living on the old ground, but most of that which is abandoned is taken up by the Chinese, who, by constantly keeping the cradle at work, make what they consider wages. At the Leyburn Police Court, on the 17th Sept. the Warwick Argus reports that Edward Short was brought up in custody, charged with having, on the 17th instant, at Glenlyon, murdered one Alphonso Amega. The dying declarations of the deceased, taken before D. Gunn, Esq., were read over, and were to the effect that at the time in question he was camped some distance from a sheep station hut on Glenlyon, when the prisoner and. his son came up and ordered him away ; that he was packing up his things to go, when the prisoner fired at him, but missed him ; prisoner then aimed at him again, and he (deceased) rushed forward, having a revolver in his hand, to wrest the gun from him, when the prisoner fired and shot him down ; • that the prisoner left him lying wounded on the ground all night, and while taking him to the head station the following morning, refused him even a drink of water. — Sergeant Devine deposed to having apprehended the prisoner at Glenlyon, and that prisoner had admitted , shooting .deceased, but that he did so in i self-defence, as deceased had rushed on 1 him with a revolver in one hand and a i shear blade in the other, and had snapped i the revolver at him twice. The revolver , and shear blade were produced, the revolver being loaded in all six barrels, but i one cap was missing. — The prisoner was i remanded for one week, for the attendance i of witnesses. The Maryborough Chronicle says : — " A man, at present unknown, who came from

Maryborough during the late rush there, has been found brutally murdered, in a creek near the Callide. It appears that his mate and he had been drinking at a public-house called the Rainbow, on Rainbow creek, Banona road, and had a row and a tight. They parted next day, one going one way and one the other, nothing more being seen of the niurlered man until his "body was found, nine days afterwards, about ten miles from the Rainbow. The skull would seem to have been battered in with a stone, and the body stripped and buried alive; The murdered man's swag was found about one hundred and fifty yards from the body, and in a different direction from the spot where the man is suppused tir have been murdered."