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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 636, 15 February 1870, Page 3

Private advices from California announce the death of Miss Annie Lockhart, the actress, at Salt Latie City: Captain Emslie, of the ship Sobraon, has been' fined L3O for landing diseased sheep in the Sydney Domain. , • Two deaths have occurred atMonaro from English cholera. Philip O'Neil, a respectable tradesman jn Bendigo, was charged with haying, Vhilst drunk, attempted to borrow L2O from Simeon Max. The signature of the

sureties was a forgery, and the prisoner was sentenced by the bench to one month. The barque Camden, 235 tons, belonging to the port of Sydney, was totally wrecked at Rush Island, a few miles north of Bateman's Bay, oh the 30th ult. The crew were saved, and have arrived in Sydney. The vessel is insured in local offices. The Victoria has LSOO on the risk. : ' The French war steamer Guichcn pnt in to Rockhampton on Saturday, 29th ult., in a damaged condition, to undergo repairs. A public dinner has been given to the officers, and other entertainments are proposed. ■ The floods in Queensland have destroyed 280 yards of Wiseman's bridge, and five miles of the railway embankment above Stanwell has been carried away. The Fitzroy river is still rising. Hundreds of persons visited the English and Scottish Bank, Adelaide, on the sth inst., to inspect some fresh quartz specimens from Blumberg. One of these weighs nearly lOoz, about Boz of this being gold. Others have veins of gold running through, and loose pieces are also exhibited. A great fire broke out in Fraser street, Chines, on Thursday, 3rd Feb., by which the George Hotel, Elliott's shop, Weickhardt's tin shop, and Finn's draper's shop were gutted, and a great deal of property destroyed. The Cornwall and Devon Hotel was also gutted, and Rankin's boot warehouse had to be demolished to prevent the fire spreading. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Finn's property is insured for LI2CO in the Victoria Insurance Company ; L4OO in the National Insurance Company ; L6OO in the Australasian Insurance Company ; and L6OO in the Sydney Insurance Company. The insurance on the George Hotel is only L 175 in the Adelaide Insurance Company. RaoKin's boot shop is insured for L2OO in the Victoria Insurance Company, and LIOO in the Alliance. Elliott's is insured for LIOO in the Alliance and for a like amount in the Victoria Insurance oflices. Elizabeth Young, a married woman, died by poisoning at Newtown, near Beechworth, on the 20th ult. An inquest was held on her remains on the 21st, when a verdict was returned that she died from the effects of strychnine administered by her own hand whilst in a state of temporary insanity. : A man who was known to have been wandering about for the past week in the bush on the Yabba Station, 30 miles from Benalla, was found on the 18th ult. dead. The face of the unfortunate man was partly eaten away. It is supposed that death was caused either by sunstroke or from the effects of drink. On Saturday, evening 29th ult. a seizure was made by the Customs authorities Melbourne, of a case of valentines of a very indecent character. The case has not been claimed by any one, and was opened in consequence of a private information given to the authorities. It is not very often that a bridegroom makes his appearance at a police court before the expiration of his honeymoon on a charge of ill-using and threatening the life of his better-half; but such was the case last week at Melbourne, when a man named Harris was charged on warrant with using threatening language towards his wife. The pro3ecutrix said that she had not been married to prisoner a month, but he had several times illused her, and announcedhis intention of being hung for her. She also added that she was obliged to marry him, as he had threatened to murder her if she did not. The prisoner's statement, however, threw a different light on the subject, as he said that ever siuce he had been married his house had been in a filthy state, and he never had a clean thing to put on. Within nine days of the wedding his wife had pawned her wedding ring to get drink, and he certainly admitted striking her once, but she used such filthy language to him in the- street that he was provoked to do so. The bench considered that both parties were to blame, and dismissed the case, advising them to go home and live more happily in future. "The country around the Upper Dargo River, at an altitude of some 5,000 ft above the level of the sea, consists," writes the Gipps Land Mercury, "of basaltic formation resting on a layer of silurian debris cemented together. This cement overlies or forms the top crust of looser gravel resting on the rock bottom. Parties are now commencing to work this ground, and if report is correct, the prospects are remarkably good. One man cleared L2OO in six weeks out of the washdirt, and it is proposed to try a few tons of the cement that shows gold at one of Dargo batteries. Several parties have gone up to see whether this news can be confirmed, and numbers are preparing to start for the place should the report of their mate be favourable. It is not recommended that people should start for the locality until more definite information is obtained^ and then it must be borne in mind that the ; journey is over some of the highest parts of the Australian Alps, where a man is very liable to miss his way, and the locality of the workings is far removed from the ordinary comforts of our older gold fields." (For continuation of news see Fourth Page.)