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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 648, 15 March 1870, Page 4

' Government has granted a reward to the discoverers of lij.ro33a, Jupiter diggings. : The wheat crop is estimated at' six bushels au abre, leaving for export thirtyfive thousand tons. :,'" . Oalifornian papers have English telegrama of the lUth January, whi;h, though not so late by three 'days as the news received last mbhthiutfGalle;' contain the following items omitted frqtn the telegram received by the Malta :— A serious riot had taken place at the Longford election, when the troops fired upon the mob. The Duke of Marlborough has accepted the Couserative leadership. Mr Peabody's remains reached Madeira on the. 30th December. It is proposed to give an entertainment to the commander, officers, and crew of the Pharos during their visit to the port : of Warrnambool. Thie man Bernard Mulrino, who was supposed to have been murdered at Bull- : dog,, has returned to his home in safety. He had merely been to Ballarat to obtain medical advice. A man named Laurence Harming,. 54 years of age, was drowned at Wagga on Monday, 2Sth February, He drove into the lagoou there while in a state of intoxication, and though an attempt was made to him, it was unsuccessful. The Uallardt Courier understands, that there is great probability of Mr- Ciis3bld, late. police magistrate, at Ballarat, return* ing to this colony before long, a letter to that" effect having been received by the last mail by one of Olissold's frienda in | Ballarat, The death of the. miner, George Wyatt, who" was kUled on Wednesday night,. 2nd inst., at the shaft of the Prince Imperial Company, Sebastopol, appears to have been the result of his own carelessness. It was stated at the inquest that Wyatt jumped from* the surface ill to the cage while it was going up" at full speed, in order to get to the brace, and so got crushed between the cage and the shaft. ! The steamer Trio has been totally wrecked at Saal Rock Bay, The 'crew took to the boat and made for Newcastle, which they reached. in safety. TJie Jean Pierre, whiah arrived at Sydney from San Francisco, brought 31>0.00 quarter-sacks of flour. The Californian newspapers received by this vessel .l state that <v severe shock of earthquake was -fe.lt all along tho coast at the close of the year. A great fire had occurred at Santiago, Havanuah ; telegrams report that strioter measures were being taken by the authorities to suppress the rebellionjin Cuba, and that military executions were., becoming- veryfrequentw The crop of nuggets at' that ex'traorJiqury goll field, (Berlin, continues undiminished. The Jnglewaocl Advertiser re.prirts a rush to a new gully, half a mile abotre Sheepwash Gully. Two nuggets' ■ weighing 16dwt were obtained from the bottsom of a prospecting shaft, and on Thursday between 2000 and 3000 > miners were on the "ground. The following are among the prizes drawn during the week, via.;:— A 240z nugget; 6oz 13dwt, 6oz 6dwt, 7tm, lloa, 2600z, lfToz, 96z, two of j 14oss, 78oz 6dwt, besides a great quantity of finer gold. Mr Watkins obtained | 1186z from 12 headatßousfield'a machine, • on Saturday last, for 'tneiortnigHt: : : L An inquest was held. .. on" Saturday, sth instant, at the South Park Hotel, Moray street, Emerald Hill, before the ."city" coroner, Dr Youl, on the body of an infant named Biosetta Hoy, aged three months, the daughter of Mishael Hoy, a private soldier in the 14th Regiment. The deceased was burnt to death on the night of the 3rd inst., during a fire which originated on the premises occupied by Duiican Finlayson as a grocer's shop. The" jury, after. deliberating for about. .an., hour and a-half, gave the following verdict: — "That Rosetta Hoy was burned, to death at Emerald Hill, on the night of the; 3tHJI inkb., in; a house occupied l by iDiihcaii-Finlaysbh as..a: grocer's shop."! They were of opinion that the premises were wilfully set on fire by some person or peraons-wnknown ....,, „ . % , „ "Mr. Eli Taylor, of Peel street," says the Ballarat Star, "who went towards Clark's saw-mills some days ago in his usual health, and was.. missed till yesterday (Wednesday), was on that day found, -bjr-^a :teoQp*i^Tdead;:in.-.ther bush» : The trooper: had. passed over a little creek near | Gea'abn,. when; he saw at some distance a ■nian fitting;, oh -a fence, leaning forward! $&; Approached, but the \maii -did- nqt ; iu(>vej • !atid . woiid.oj'ing that; "he '■'■• was not' noticed in such; a; lonely places -he^went ; up.to.hmv,; : He ; Was quite idead,- and in the 'position, stai^d. The we believe, hasbefeS for a considerable time subject to' attacks of cramp in the stomach, and it' is thought that he had xakeh x si' drink of water '.at the oreek, which' had. caused hia death." \ ' " "/ ' •>■ The news from the supposed gold fields at the -Cape of Good Hope is still unsatisfactory, biifcat the Transvaal diamonds are being found in 66naiderable numbers. One person is stated to have picked up no less than B§f most of them, : however, being of am ill sixe, In the Far : North, there appears 1 to have* beert nvn'ch- Wood- . shed aniohgs't the native populattdn; The Transvaal authorities, in order to punish the Mantf»tee» and other r&fractbry,subject tribes, called in the aidf of anrvther, tribe, the Amaswazi, who appear toh^Ve taken very summary vengieabcje^ipoh the ; otfending natives. The^^ciStue.. if ; ; the ~\ Mantateea has not been s'faii^l^tfayfr! the Nakd Mercury, "the manner a»3"extent of their punishhignt.are'cleai? enough; Draconian treatment- has; beeiu dealt out to:-:themirr:.Th<?k. people /stabbed,.- their ■fuUm- -buriiedy' il\eii> datweji womeii, and children captured ; such has .been the fate of these now dispersed and extinguished people." In one instance a sohanta or village was surprised, and two-thirds of the Mantatees occupying it wore killed.

In this affair, however, the Amaswazi did not altogether escape, 43 of their number being killed and 40 desperately wounded. The Amaswazi force consisted of between 4000 and 5000 men. Since the return of the cheques and bills of a . milling and squatting £r.n already alluded to, is beyond question, and as greatly exaggerated statements as to its liabilities have been circviliited, it may serve to allay commercial distrust to briefly indicate approximately the position of the firm in question. It will be observed that the open liabilities are not nearly so large as rumor has made them; ineither in themselves nor as contrasted jwith the total indebtedness. Messrs William Degraves and Co. owe in round numbers something under L 350,000. To Mr Degraves'a brothers in Tasmania and to immediate relatives there is due (secured by mortgages, &c), L 140,00 0; to the firm's bankers (two), L 120,000— this is also understood to be seoiired ; w open creditors in the colonies is due about L 60,000 ; to English creditors, also unsecured, a sum under L30,000> The surplus of assets over liabilities has been : estimated at LIOO,OOO, and by a realisation, even under unfavorable circumstanoes, it is considered by competent persons that all the liabilities would in the worst contingency be liquidated in full. It is understood that the fitst-class securities held by Mr Degraves's wealthy relatives, show a large surplus above the advances on them, and it is anticipated that. these gentlemen may yet come,forward, and by that timely aid which they are in a position easily to afford, rescue the old-established firm of W. Degraves and Co. from its present difficulties.