LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS,

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 599, 18 November 1869, Page 2

LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS,

By the s.s. Claud Haniilton, we have files from Melbourne to , the 10th inst., from which we take the- following later items of news : — Mr Amess is now Mayor of Melbourne. As some men were, proceeding to their work on the morning of the 9th instant at Northcote, they discovered the body of a man, together with a horse arid dray, lying at the bottom of a quarry. Of course, both horse and man were quite dead, and the dray somewhat injured. A man named James Curtis has been killed in a drunken row at the new rush at Tyler's. Two hundred and' four ounces of gold have been obtained from twenty-two tons of quartz taken-out of a claim atTambaroona, N.S.W., where rich veins are being discovered. A man named Tronson (well known about Melbourne as a vendor of song books) was accidentally knocked down and run over near Flemington, on Saturday, 6th inst, by a cab returning from the races. His legs were broken, and had to be amputated. Gangrene; supervened shortly afterwards, and he died the same day at the Hospital. A married woman named Louisa Walker was burned to death at Sydney by her clothes igniting. A brother of Alderman Pearce, of Hobart Town, has been killed at Deloraina by a tree falling, on him. The Tasmanian Government, believing in the Waterhouse Gold Fields, have ordered buildings to be erected for the commissioner and other officers. The Tasmanian Minister of Lind and Woiks was returned for Brighton, unop-: posed. The niau Kieley, sentenced to death for the murder of his wife at Hobart. Town is. to be executed on the 17th inst. Information has been received of young salmon having been seen rising in great numbers below the falls at New Norfolk every morning, for some days pas i. Large numbers of -visitors from town intend to visit the locality. A. telegram has.bten received stating that the Englisu tench have grown so plentiful in the lagoon at the Nile that it has been found necessary to Kill many. . Commander Bingham, of HiM.S.S. Virago, has been suspended by : the Admiralty. . Moselle is becoming a strong favorite for the Homebnsh Derby, and Comet for the Hurdle Race. The strike on the North-Westera Railway, which at one time, wore a threatening aspect, is at an. end, and work has; been peaceably resumed. A meat-preserving company lias been started at Goulburn, with a capital of L 15,000. . . Tho reported gold discovery at Bream Creek, Tasmania, turns out to be an egregious "sell," according to the Hobart Town Mercury of the 3rd instant. "The party who went to inspect the creek remained on the ground some time, and sunk a number of holes without getting the color. Dr Smart has examined several of the pieces of metal found at Bream Creek, and from his personal experience of Gold Fields, and also from testing, pronounces the metal to be what is known on the Victorian diggings as •" Chinese gold,' a me'allic compound without a particle of the precious metal in it. The presence of a number of Chinamen at Bream Creek of late years may account, perhaps for the presence of the metal. : It is nol improbable that it is a portion of a parcel thrown away, John Chinaman finding no victim to pick up with it here." - The bushranger Power has again made his appearance in Victoria. On the Bth instant, about six o'clock, he stuck up the mail from Jamieson, six miles from that place, on' the road to Mansfield. The driver reports that he had a double-bar-felled gun and two revolv r , He opsied tho letters in the mail bags, and took a five pound note, a one pound note, and two cheques, numbers unknown, also 25s from the driver. He also took one of the \ horses belonging to the coach company. When leaving, Power said he was going in the direction of Wood's Point. Iv conversation with the driver, Power said he had had a hard struggle in New South Wales, and that it was he that stuck up the Merton mail.