LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Issue 625, 20 January 1870, Page 4

LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

From our files we make, the fallowing extracts : — At the Melbourne Race Meeting on New Year's Day 12,000 persons were present. Yorkshireman won the Hurdle Race, Miaty Morn the Three-year-old Handicap, the Monk the Midsummer Handicap, Skipper the Steeplechase, Strop the Man-ners-Sutton Stakea, and Warrior the LSO Plate. A man named Tlioa, Wilson, w orking at Langlanda' Foundry, Melbourne, was admitted to the hospital on the 9th mat., suffering from injuries to the head and shoulders, caused by a crano falling on him. The body of a man named Swinborne, late sailmaker on board the ship Colonial Empire, was found floating near the vessel at the Williamstown Railway Pier on Tuesday morning, 4th mat. A fireman on board the Yon Yangs named Wm. Murphy, committed auicide in Sydney on the 4th inst. Thunderbolt h:is again robbed the northern mail, and notwithstanding the reward offered forlffiß apprehenaion, aud the efforts of the police to come upon his track, he ia still too wary for his pursuers. On Sunday, 9th inst., a hatter, named John Collier, aged 45, living in Latrobeparade, off Collins street, who was rowing on the-\arra, was accidentally drowned near the railway bridge, and about opposite the Sir Henry Barkly Hotel. A compositor named Henry Sweet died in the Sandhurst Hoapital on Sa'-urday, Bth inst., from internal cancer, having been admitted to that institution 01 Wednesday last. The deceased has been a resident of Bendigo since the ear'y days, during which time he has worked at intervals at his trade, It was rumored in Melbourne on the Blh instant that a destructive tiro had occurred yesterday, before noou. at the Pic-

nic Hotel, situated at Picnic Point, several miles beyond Brighton, and that the hotel, which had lately been very conaiderably enlarged, waa totally oonsumed. On the 9th mat. Francis Buckler, a bushman, while suffering from the effects of drink, attempted to cut hia throat with a penknife. He succeeded in making a kind of cnt in his neck, and then evidently thought better of the matter, or hia courage had all oozed away, for he went to the hospital and delivered himself up either for medical treatment or to he detained,